Chris Limb
Today is (National) Coming Out Day. Remember that coming out - revealing a truth about yourself - isn't something you do only once. You have to do it with everyone you meet.
Sometimes you have to *remind* people which always strikes me as weird. Were they just not paying attention the first time?
Full disclosure: I have to come out as autistic and non-binary. The latter is the tricky one as I don't have a piece of paper to prove it.
Bethany Black
@catmachine fuck those people, you owe them nothing. Even if those people are you from when you were figuring this out.
Chris Limb
So there is an assumption amongst some sectors of the population that I'm jumping on a bandwagon. I'm not, it's just that I didn't have the proper words / concepts for it - say - 25 years ago.
Doesn't mean I didn't try at the time using the language and concepts available to me, but people just got more vocally annoyed / irritated with me when I did so.
Chris Limb
@BethanyBlack Thank you! Yes I suspect their "forgetting" is not wanting to abandon their previous mental model of me.
Bethany Black
@catmachine I mostly meant the people who assume you’re jumping a bandwagon, those people’s opinions are just not worth even worth entertaining
Chris Limb
@BethanyBlack Thanks, yes I only realised you meant them after posting as I'd I'd got confused by the threading!
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