Well, I finally gathered the courage to have my coming out to my mother. Overall I would rate the experience a solid 4/10. The first reaction was kinda trash (She replied with, “does that really have to be”) and then later complained, that I told it to her at around 8pm, because now she will think about it and probably wont be able to sleep that easily. Some of her not so nice other reactions:
- You wont take surgeries (I replied with we’ll see)
- I shouldnt have dressed you as a girl that one time in my last week of school (I told her that I have indications of me being trans before that)
- But maybe what you feel isnt what you interpret out of it
After the last thing I wanted to explain, why I am devinetively sure I am trans, but she interrupted me with “I want to take a shower (bruh) now and you can tell this when the rest [of the family] is there too, so you dont have to tell it 3 times (She kinda got a point there)”
But luckyly enough she seemed willing to accept it (“We dont really have any choice”), and agreed to tell the rest of the family (yay). She also said, that I will continue to be her child, so I guess thats a win. She was absolutely shocked, but she will get over it.
When taking into consideration, that my parents are conspiracy theorists, this is about the best possible outcome I could have hoped for. It could have been much worse, especially when taking into consideration, that there whole social circle are also conspiracy theorists, of which some are right wing and I also heard such nice statements as “The WHO wants to make us all gay” (or something like that) from one of their friends.
You keep saying conspiracy theorist like it is inherently bad. I mean plenty of progressives & liberals would also be labeled as conspiracy theorists. For example, many on the left believe things like Trump is being controlled by Russia, or by Netanyahu, or that he was never shot in the ear. There is no concrete evidence of those things, but it isn’t bad to think about things until those beliefs start harming others.
It sounds like your mom still loves & accepts you. One thing to consider as well, not sure if it is relevant… But sometimes parents get scared when their kid comes out because they know the world can be cruel. Maybe they realize they have some growing & change to do themselves, but they’ll still do it. I hope this is what happens, and that maybe one day you’ll reflect on the moment & actually be really proud of her.
Many adults are really just kids forced to grow up way too soon. It could be that she just has a little more growing up to do herself.
What you mention is something completely different, than believing in chemtrails and thinking that the covid Vax is a bioweapons or something like that.
That isn’t what conspiracy theorist means though. Conspiracy theory is a broad term & isn’t inherently a negative trait in itself. Many people have been called conspiracy theorist to later be proven right for questioning things.