Today, after weeks of thinking and playing every outcome possible in my head, I told my parents I'm gay. My dad nodded and didn't even look up from his book; my mom told me to go to the doctor if it starts to itch. FML
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Thanksgiving
Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, I finally got the courage to tell my parents that I'm gay. My mom said "Yeah, we know." When I asked how they knew, my dad, without looking up from the tv, said, "We've been monitoring your Internet history." FML
Today, at 18, I finally told my mom I was gay. She spent the rest of the day bringing up my "future wife" at every possible chance she had. FML
Today, as an April fools day joke, I decided to tell my mom and dad that I was gay. After an awkward silence, my mom looks at me, smiles, and says, "well, we have known for a while." She wasn't joking. FML
Today, I was leaving to go over to a friend's and my parents suddenly ask if I'm gay. I reply that no, I'm bisexual. My mom then asks if I've ever made out with someone of the same sex and I say yes. She turns to my dad and says 'I told you so. You owe me $20'. My parents bet on my sexuality. FML
Today, I came out to my mom. I had an epic speech planned, and when I tried to tell her, it all fell apart and I started crying and just said, "I'm gay." After a few seconds silence, my mom sighs and says, "Duh." FML
Today, I finally worked up the courage to tell my mom that I'm gay. She sympathetically patted my back and told me I don't need to make up excuses for me being so unattractive to women. FML
Today, I finally decided to tell my parents I was a lesbian. They spent the next few hours reading me the bible. FML
Today, I came out to my parents and siblings as gay. They were very accepting and asked me why I waited until I was 25 to do so. I didn't have the heart to tell them it was their own homophobic remarks that kept me closeted since I realized it at 14, and that a previous coming-out to a parent was dismissed as 'a phase'. FML
Today, I told my parents that I'm a smoker. My mother started crying, and said she worried I was gay, but this is almost as bad. That lead on to part two of my confession. FML
Today, I regretfully confessed to my parents I have trichotillomania. There was a torturous pause, followed by the question, "Are you gay?" FML
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Xavi89 0
hahah I guess they already knew!
marcranger 29
they could have taken it so much worse. while not exactly supportive, they didn't scream at you to leave, either. be grateful you were able to get it off your chest, and congrats!
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Comments (81)
lovelessgirl 7
That sucks but at least they didn't disown you, sorry man :(
sculp91 0
hmmmmm
elmorous 0
if everybody is supposed to be liberal enough to accept gays, then why can't gays be liberal enough to act like like its normal and just live? why do they insist on rubbing everyone's noses in their "uniqueness". get over yourselves and just live live your ******* lives. to hell with anybody that doesn't like it, family included!
israelnotjacob 20
Nobody has to be "liberal enough" to accept it. I don't know where you live but I'm in a country where we are all supposed to be allowed to have our own opinions about things. We don't have to accept stuff just because other people think it's okay. However I will agree with what I think your main point was. If gays think that it's acceptable then they should just live their lives and stop trying to make sure everyone else knows and accepts it. If they think they're "liberal" and accepting of all things then why aren't they "liberal" enough to accept that some other people disagree. By definition if you're "liberal" you're supposed to be open to different ideas, yet they're not open to ideas that go against what they think.
Cinn_fml 23
There's a difference between accepting and not agreeing. Just because you don't personally agree with someone, doesn't mean you can't accept that they think differently to you. Especially if what they are thinking/doing isn't going to personally affect you.
elmorous 0
exactly
lunargh 7
Why does this suck? If you're actually gay then it's just a part of who you are, like having brown hair or an interest in Geography. You shouldn't need your parents to have a fit at you, or throw you a coming-out party. If the fact that you didn't get any major attention from them over this is such a big issue for you, do you think maybe you're just an attention *****?
israelnotjacob 20
Should've just woke up and realized that you only think you're gay because you have some mental problems that you should seek psychological help for. It wasn't very long ago that people knew that's all it was. I've known several people who thought they were gay and not a single one of them didn't have some kind of bad experience in the past like their parents not caring about them or maybe something happened that made them not trust the opposite gender (rape as one possible example). Sounds like the first one in this case. Even the FML itself has the explanation for those who are smart enough to notice. If the parents cared about them they wouldn't be confused about who they are.
Guillory24 0
that just means they love u regardless, thats wonderful
polopony 0
Sounds like they've known you're gay for quite some time - probably longer than you have. Much better coming out experience than most of my gay friends had
Avenger_fml 0
LMFAO.
Mesocoollike 8
Haha, so your mother thinks homosexuality is a disease, eh? Kidding, but maybe its a good thing?
justsayfuck 5
Oh my God, you must be Daffyd! The only gay in the village.