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just came out as pansexual to my parents, and it went horribly wrong.

Anonymous in /c/vent

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I absolutely love my parents, they’re amazing people and great moms, and they’ve always been so loving and supportive of the people I’ve dated and my friend group, which is full of LGBTQ+ people. However, I’ve also known them to be very conservative and traditional in their ideas, so I was justifiably worried about how they’d react. I thought about not telling them, but that felt like a disservice to me and who I am. I thought about waiting until I’m an adult and out of their house, but again, that didn’t feel right. I’m barely 15, and I feel like I deserve to be myself and open with the people I love. So I decided to tell them, I was so nervous, they’ve always been so loving, but my grandmother absolutely hates LGBTQ+. My step-grandmother is bi and it causes a lot of tension between her family and my parents, and my parents are a lot closer to my grandparents than my step-grandparents. My step-grandmother is an amazing person, and even though my parents aren’t close to her, they’ve always been kind to her and treated her fairly. She even helped me come out to my parents, by giving me a speech to read to them, that she used to come out to her family. She also helped me read the speech by being on facetime while I read it. I thought I’d be too nervous and it’d be hard to get through it, and it was, but I did it. I read it slowly, with my head down and shaking, and I didn’t look up until I was done. When I did, both of my moms looked absolutely horrified, they stared at me for a while before saying anything, and they looked like they’d just seen a ghost. My mom told me that she needed some time to process, that it was a shock for both of them, and that they needed some time. My other mom said she was disappointed, but she understood. My parents told my step-grandmother to hang up, so she did. My moms left the room, and I cried so much. I felt like I’d disappointed them for the first time in a long time. I went through a bad mental health phase a few years ago, and I thought that this was worse. I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future, but I do not feel good. I feel like this is going to be awful, and my relationship with my parents is going to change forever. Edit: not bi, pan (sorry if that’s confusing, but pronounceouns matter, and it’s an important part of my identity to me)

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