Thinking about 'coming out'

[stealthdragon.livejournal.com]

Someone over in asperger recently commented that no-one should have to hide what they are, whatever that happens to be. We thought, "if only it were that easy".

This morning, while lying in bed, we realised that it really doesn't have to be any harder than that. We could just, y'know, tell people.

And we realised that we truly want to. We're tired of keeping up the mask to all but one or two of our closest friends.

We'll be telling our boyfriend first. We do, as they say, "fear rejection" - more from him than the rest of our friends, because we have more to lose. Our friends are an accepting bunch, though. Soon we'll see how accepting.

Perhaps we'll lose our nerve. Perhaps this thought will vanish into the abyss of memory. But then, perhaps not.

We're set to visit our boyfriend in the beginning of June. We'll see how it goes.

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[sethrenn.livejournal.com]

We have our reasons for being in the closet to our family and at school. However, if you think you can work it out, by all means, go for it.

[stealthdragon.livejournal.com]

As we've mentioned in some of the other comments, the family, people at work/school, and random people on the street can all go on thinking whatever they want to think.

Most of what will be happening is that our being several minds sharing one body & public identity will move from being a very guarded secret, to a moderately open secret among our closer friends (who, being scattered across the globe, have very little interaction with our family, schooling, or workplace). - They're the people that we'll go out of our way to communicate with, which is saying quite a bit. By now, we figure that we can trust that particular group of people, and that which allows us to be less guarded as we communicate with them is a Good Thing. ;)