BRITTANNIA

Stop telling lgbt+ youth that their parents will be sure to come around and accept them.

My instinct when I realised my queerness was that I could never tell my parents, because they would never accept me, and we’d all be better off with them not knowing.

I heard so much to the contrary that I felt I had no option but to tell them, but I wasn’t too worried, because every narrative I saw assured me that it would be okay because we’d talk it through and they’d accept me.

I told them, and unsurprisingly, two years later, they are no closer to accepting me, or talking to me about it. And I’m not at all convinced that things wouldn’t be better for me if I’d never told them in the first place.

me: *instantly flashes back to every moment i procrastinated and wasted*