I have to stop hanging out at queer-centric events for a while. It makes me stressed.
The next person who talks about coming out, or who asks me if I’m Out to my parents, I will smack them around the head. it feels like a “progress” thing. Like I’m not fully mature as an lgbt person if I haven’t come out to my parents. I just feel out of place, because most of my queer friends at uni are out to their parents, and I feel like this rebellious secretive child for not coming out to my parents. Coming out or not is a personal choice, and you have to understand _my_ parents, or asian parents, before thinking that coming out is part of growing up. I don’t even talk about my personal life with my parents, they don’t think very highly of me as it is, why would I tell them that I’m gay and give them another reason to look down on me? It would be like throwing a spanner into the works.
In singapore, other queer people are respectful of boundaries, and they don’t ask intrusive questions about your parents. Do people here not understand the meaning of tact?
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