re: "4 Ridiculous Questions People Asked Me When My 11-Year-Old Came Out as Gay"

I haven't slept in two days so i need to know if I'm losing my reading comprehension.
The parents of a 11 year old child that came out the closet are also gay?
WTF?

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but I associate someone with a mental illness as someone who is a threat to society. Someone who could snap one day and go shoot up a public area or can be triggered by the smallest thing that causes them to go completely insane.

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No, that's definitely not the definition of mental illness. Sure its a part of it, but people with mental illness are typically a greater threat to themselves than others. Severe depression for instance is certainly mental illness. I'd say like only 1 out of 20 with mental illnesses are a threat to society at large.

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This is really the thing that confuses me the most about the whole spiel thing in the OP. There is such an emphasis on the importance of "identity" and what they identify as. It isn't something that I actually spend a lot of time thinking about about. I identify as myself. The rest of it are just aspects that are a part and not necessarily even the most important parts. I'm not trying to identify as anyone besides myself. Sure, I am a white, heterosexual, southern male. These are parts of what has made me the way that I am. But I think things like my integrity, honesty, generosity, intelligence, even negative things like my anxiety, neuroticism, and shyness are far larger parts of who I am. These were the sorts of things that I talked about with my parents, and the values that they tried to instill in me. Sex wasn't that big of a topic in our house growing up. Ideas about it kind of flowed from the rest.

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Great post. I meant to upvote but down voted by accident.

That kid was doomed to be screwed up because of the parents. That offspring will probably have a dozen identities before the age of twenty

There was never an age for me when I thought girls were icky. I have been getting boners to attractive women and masterbating since the age of 8

11!? WTH!!

Waiting for the spin-off thread on prospective names for that camp. Get to it creative OTers...

Yeah, I'm ok with kids being themselves but this bitch is crazy and a disgusting slob and likely influencing her own child for her own agenda.

WYHI? I wouldn't unless it involved a baseball bat.

No. You aren't a MILF. No one wants to frick you.

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It isn't something that I actually spend a lot of time thinking about about.

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that's your cis-het privilege talking, shitlord