so yeah. i established a persona that wears whatever ages ago. the only relevant steps in my coming out (in my city) are therefore name and pronouns. it is horrific. i don’t want to talk abt myself or be the topic of any discussion. i like the anonymity here. but these people know me.
i just turned off notifications and spammed a few group chats.
… guess i’ll burn my phone.
update: i’ll survive. i had a good, long and agitated walking-around-in-the-flat-while-crying, then had a peak into the messages. had 2 really cool chats with ppl i hadn’t talked to for a long while. the rest is a lot of emoji noise. which is nice, but i don’t know what to do with that. it’s the nice ones.
ok, no one thinks i am dumb for realising so late. (take that anxiety. you were wrong.)
one friend kept awkwardly quiet. that might be a problem? usually he lives in his phone. we’ll see.
Your friends will have to process this as well, give them time :).
And it’s never too late to realise that. I don’t know how old you are but I came out like 1 month before my 31st birthday.
we are good. he probably just was with his new semi-regular grinder hook-up. ;)
Happy to hear that :)
Lol I had the exact same fear. Proud of you for telling everyone.