This is awkward for me.......
I don't know how I'll be treated after this.........
Will people view me differently........
My family have always had pretty strict views on this........
But, I think they probably have already figured it out.......
Will I become a disappointment to my loved ones.......
Will I be an outcast to my friends.......
Will they think I have thought about having a relationship with them after I say this (Eww)........
I can do this......
When the time is right.....
But the time never seems right............................................................................................
Ok, here it goes......... I am ............ Straight!
Now, before you get excited, I am serious here. Straight people never have to make this announcement. We never have to have these questions run
through our mind. We never have to hold our breathe in anticipation of spitting out a life changing confession, only to find the moment "isn't
right".
I am MAD that my very close friends and family have had to carry this burden on their shoulders for YEARS. This secret eating away at them. They are
unable to be their true self in the presence of loved ones for fear of rejection. IT ISN"T FAIR!
It isn't fair to me that they have kept this secret from me. It isn't fair that they have had to keep the secret. And, it isn't fair that now I
feel like I need to defend them to the outside ignorant world.
Why must we have these divides in our culture? Will we look back in 50 years and remember this era as our grandparents remember the Black Civil Rights
Movement? What then will be the cause of our divide? What will be the next group of people we single out? Why must we do this to ourselves? We as a
whole are a bunch of bullies!
So, now you know. I am straight. Though if you ask anyone who knew me in my teenage years, they might disagree with that statement.
If you would like to come out today, if only on a thread in ATS, I urge you to please get the weight off of your shoulders. You shouldn't have to
carry it, IT ISN'T FAIR!