Bi_Druid
Sep 15, 2011, 3:27 PM
A friend of mine, who has recently come out as trans, remarked about how easy everyone so far seemed to be taking it. How everyone they'd so far come out to had been absolutely fine with it.
They're worries about friends and family and such Not being ok with it was mostly fueled by the amount of unfortunate unhappy endings publisised, mostly on the internets.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we shouldn't be supportive of those who do need to come to sites, say like this one, and look for shoulders to cry on.
What I'm trying to get at is that there seems to be an absolute lack of people posting about happy coming out stories.
So, here's a start.
I myself, when I started coming out as bi to people, found next to no negative feed back. Many of my then new friends happily took it in their stride.
Then when coming out to older friends, they too didn't seem all that phaised by it.
When it was finally confirmed for my family that I was bi (I say "confirmed", as they had all actually guessed, or at least suspected I wasn't straight, long before even I did myself) they too were perfectly fine with it.
I've so far never had any trouble what so ever with bringing it up, often quite casually in conversation to people, about being bisexual.
I appreciate I'm lucky in many respects. But please, please tell me I'm not the only one.
If you too have a coming out tale that had a happy ending, please do share. I'm sure those who are still unsure about the whole idea of coming out will find it helpful to know that sometimes it's really not all garenteed to go bad afterall.
They're worries about friends and family and such Not being ok with it was mostly fueled by the amount of unfortunate unhappy endings publisised, mostly on the internets.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm not saying we shouldn't be supportive of those who do need to come to sites, say like this one, and look for shoulders to cry on.
What I'm trying to get at is that there seems to be an absolute lack of people posting about happy coming out stories.
So, here's a start.
I myself, when I started coming out as bi to people, found next to no negative feed back. Many of my then new friends happily took it in their stride.
Then when coming out to older friends, they too didn't seem all that phaised by it.
When it was finally confirmed for my family that I was bi (I say "confirmed", as they had all actually guessed, or at least suspected I wasn't straight, long before even I did myself) they too were perfectly fine with it.
I've so far never had any trouble what so ever with bringing it up, often quite casually in conversation to people, about being bisexual.
I appreciate I'm lucky in many respects. But please, please tell me I'm not the only one.
If you too have a coming out tale that had a happy ending, please do share. I'm sure those who are still unsure about the whole idea of coming out will find it helpful to know that sometimes it's really not all garenteed to go bad afterall.