My family are like the very last people I need to come out to, and then I’ll be done with my social transition. I’ve talked about how afraid I am to come out to them so often in comments here that you all probably already know that they’re conservative Catholics.
I am so over hiding myself from them, I’m just ready for it to be over, and even if they respond poorly, at least then it’s something real and not just fear of the uncertainty
I don’t think I can do it in person though. It would be too uncomfortable, there would be too many people (I have a lot of siblings), and I don’t think I’d even be able to get the words out. But I still feel weirdly obligated, like I owe them the respect of coming out in person?
Please please tell me it’s okay to send them an email instead
its ok to come out to your family via email. im planning to come out to my parents over text for similar reasons. theyre conservative and i dont think i can say the words out loud to them, let alone in the same room as them. its fucking terrifying to tell them so anything you can do to make it easier is totally cool. if they or anyone else gets butthurt over the method, well they were probably going to get butthurt no matter what so fuck them. at least the information will get to them.
Thank you, I appreciate that, and I wish you luck with your eventual coming out! I feel like I’m in a very similar position, I don’t think I’d even be able to get the words out, let alone say everything in the way I’d like to, if I tried to do it in person