Reply #10: When I came out my Mom

[ThomCat]

said to me "I have one son who uses drugs and gets in trouble with the law. I thought I had one son who was better than that, and now I find out he has a worse problem."

For the next year, every time she spoke to me all she talked about was how I was living a dangerous life. I was going to get AIDS and die. I stopped talking to her her for a few years. She learned to deal with my sexuality now basically ignoring it.

I have a GF at the moment (I'm mostly gay, but occassionally date a bit Bi), and suddenly my Mom treats me like a human being. She's constantly inviting me And My GF to come visit. I'm treated like I'm part of the family now just because I'm dating a women. And she wonders why I don't like coming to visit her.
x(

I came out while I was in college, and I lost most of my friends. I was a volunteer geek. I did 20+ hours of volunteer work most weeks just for fun. I thought I had nice liberal friends who could deal with knowing someone gay. I was immediately threatened by some, ignored by others, and only ended up with a small group of friends.

So much for knowing who people really are.
:shrug: