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[quote=Anonymous]Awwww, poor kid.  My immediate circle has a lot of positive coming out stories — I never did it formally, just started casually dropping same gender pronouns when talking about the possibility of a significant other and my family rolled with it — but even in the most accepting environments, it can be scary.

I have a friend who came out to his parents as bisexual around 15/16.  Some background: he had always been a flamboyant theater kid who totally stood out pushed gender norms in our small town and his parents were politically active in progressive social causes — if you’d asked me without knowing his feelings, I would have said duh of course his parents would be supportive and while they might not have guessed bisexual, I have to believe they knew he was queer of some kind.  Nonetheless — he was petrified.  After all, he loved his parents and couldn’t bare the idea that they would be upset at him.  Fortunately, it went well and he’s now happily married, flamboyantly queer, and has a great relationship with his parents.

Another friend was worried to tell her parents that she was a lesbian — her mom is Chinese and she didn’t think that side of the family winds be accepting, but her mom very nearly had a career as a professional ballerina before settling to chemistry so she was actually lovely and was able to understand a bit more of what my friend was going through that she original thought would be the case.

Hope things go well for him![/quote]

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