I came out to my mom
So earlier this morning my mom came into my room asking what the black ring I wear was about. Apparently she had seen a person at church wearing a black ring on their middle finger. I panicked and just said "it's a thing, it's a little hard to explain, but we had grazed the topic before... " she looked at me for a couple seconds, said ok and left my room.
A couple hours later I was driving with her and brought the conversation back up. I said "you know how there's straight and gay and all the other colors of the rainbow people are? Well there's also asexuality. Asexuality meaning that I don't have sexual attraction. I might do the sex one day to see what it's about but other than that, it isn't something I'm attracted to."
Of course we've had the conversation before that I'm not interested in sex and she's not likely to have grandkids, but I guess she didn't take it seriously till now as she did ask about that. She said she knew something was up since high school because I never dated and never seemed interested in doing the sex, unlike my brother who is sex obsessed. Apparently at one point she thought I might be gay, but I didn't show interest in guys either.
Of course the traditional topic of "maybe you haven't met the right person yet" came up but I just deflected it. No other aphobic talk came up, she was pretty understanding. We actually started talking about people we know who have low sex interest/could be ace. It actually turned into a fun conversation.
I did ask her to keep it quiet from the rest of the family because I don't plan on coming out to them. She can talk to her best friend about it cause they talk about everything. She is like my moms emotional support person.
So yeah, that's my coming out to my mom story. Hope yall enjoy it. Hope yall have as good an experience if you ever come out to family.
TL;DR - I came out to my mom and she was perfectly understanding.
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So earlier this morning my mom came into my room asking what the black ring I wear was about. Apparently she had seen a person at church wearing a black ring on their middle finger. I panicked and just said "it's a thing, it's a little hard to explain, but we had grazed the topic before... " she looked at me for a couple seconds, said ok and left my room.
A couple hours later I was driving with her and brought the conversation back up. I said "you know how there's straight and gay and all the other colors of the rainbow people are? Well there's also asexuality. Asexuality meaning that I don't have sexual attraction. I might do the sex one day to see what it's about but other than that, it isn't something I'm attracted to."
Of course we've had the conversation before that I'm not interested in sex and she's not likely to have grandkids, but I guess she didn't take it seriously till now as she did ask about that. She said she knew something was up since high school because I never dated and never seemed interested in doing the sex, unlike my brother who is sex obsessed. Apparently at one point she thought I might be gay, but I didn't show interest in guys either.
Of course the traditional topic of "maybe you haven't met the right person yet" came up but I just deflected it. No other aphobic talk came up, she was pretty understanding. We actually started talking about people we know who have low sex interest/could be ace. It actually turned into a fun conversation.
I did ask her to keep it quiet from the rest of the family because I don't plan on coming out to them. She can talk to her best friend about it cause they talk about everything. She is like my moms emotional support person.
So yeah, that's my coming out to my mom story. Hope yall enjoy it. Hope yall have as good an experience if you ever come out to family.
TL;DR - I came out to my mom and she was perfectly understanding.
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I came out to my mom
So earlier this morning my mom came into my room asking what the black ring I wear was about. Apparently she had seen a person at church wearing a...
I did a drawing of a little ace snake enjoying his chocolate cake :)
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I'm about to go to college and wanted to design some ace/aro apparel that I can wear to show others on my campus they are not alone :-) So I did. Link to all designs: https://www.redbubble.com/people/claradehlin/shop
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Clara Dehlin is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone cases.
This has probably been posted before but I though it would fit
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