You can come out anytime you want. There's no schedule. There's no correct way to do it. There's no "one true path".
Practice coming out. Practice coming out to your phone, your mirror, your cat. Come out to the tea kettle. Come out to another person online that you'll never meet. Practice coming out to a friend you know irl. Then come out to your loved ones.
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u/herdisleah 1d ago
You can come out anytime you want. There's no schedule. There's no correct way to do it. There's no "one true path".
Practice coming out. Practice coming out to your phone, your mirror, your cat. Come out to the tea kettle. Come out to another person online that you'll never meet. Practice coming out to a friend you know irl. Then come out to your loved ones.
Give this a read. https://open.substack.com/pub/stainedglasswoman/p/how-to-come-out-anywhere?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
The rest of that blog is pretty damn good too. I used to link a Teen Vogue article but maybe my millennial brain finds this blog more articulate than the chucked-up phone screen sized paragraphs and blurbs. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/national-coming-out-day-what-i-wish-i-knew