"If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door."

[mousme]

tx_cronopio asked me to talk about my own experience coming out. Most of you who read this LJ these days were there when I came out, but I suspect there are a handful of you who weren't, so I guess this might be new to you

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[owldaughter]

I love this whole post. Not some of the stuff in it, of course (like holy cats, any therapist treating someone like that should be shot, but of course we never think of that when we're the one being abused), but how you've written and shared it. I also really get the asexual thing (it took me ages to figure out I wasn't broken in some way). And finally, a thank you: Years ago, we were either en route to or leaving a NaNo party, and we were talking about bodies, and I said in frustration that I was built like a boy, and you said, "But a very attractive boy!" and to this day, it stands as of the nicest things anyone has said to me, because it felt so honest. I tend to be suspicious of people who compliment me (hello, lousy self-esteem), but that is one I remember always.

[mousme]

Oh my goodness, I remember that comment, and I remember cringing inwardly because it's the sort of thing I tend to blurt out without thinking beforehand, and I was SUPER worried that I had offended you. I'm glad to hear it was the opposite!

[owldaughter]

No, it was seriously one of the nicest compliments I've ever gotten. It was a combination of the mood we were in, the party we'd come from, and who knows what else. :)