Would/Have you considered suicide if/when you were outed?

Suicide? No.

But you still might not ever hear from me again either way, as I'll have removed myself from society.

The very thought of being outed makes me want to disappear into a dark corner and fade from existence.

This question has less to do with suicide(which I would not say is a good thing) and more to do with the actual question:

And what if you don't?

 

One hopes that with today's greater acceptance (in those countries where acceptance has been achieved) that the stigma associated with being LGBT has largely subsided. Fact is, in generous and open societies, no one cares, or cares for very long.

When I was younger, and especially for the generation before mine, many suicides could be attributed to being arrested at, for example, a gay bar. The cops who raided these establishments on a regular basis so embarrassed the gay clientele that one could conceivably accuse them of manslaughter if this resulted in a suicide (as it often did).

 

I've attempted several times in the past, not from being outed but just from the tiresome struggle of coming to terms with it all. Finally now I just don't care.

 

I've considered it off an on again after being outed.

 

No.

It'd have made things more difficult, and slowed down my plans, but it wouldn't have been as bad, in comparison, as it could be for others. My family wouldn't run me out of town with pitchforks and torches, but they'd make it pretty clear, I was on my own. I already feel like that, but at least with my situation now, they provide some use. If it were confirmed I was something that would make them uncomfortable or look bad, that's it, they'd tell me to go on somewhere until I was willing to stop being like that.

I refuse to let somebody be the reason I kill myself. That's my call.

 

I think if I was outed, I'd want to disappear.. but definitely not die, to be honest.. even though my life is not that great, I wouldn't want to end it; even if my family would be pissed, but if I had the means.. I'd get on the next Greyhound & start a new life elsewhere. But maybe that's a bit too extreme as well.

 

No, but my dysphoria made me want to as well as the fear of being disowned.

 

I have never been outed but during a dark time in my life when I thought I was "broken" for being gay I did consider it yet was never able to build up the nerve to ever come close to attempting anything.

 

Ahah hell no.

 

If I was outed during high school I'd definitely have considered suicide. Heck, I had a lot of other reasons for doing so at that time as well. Right now I'm faring a little better, but it still creeps me out what sort of stuff LGBT people are put through in conservative societies when they come out.

I think my parents already know I'm not straight, but I haven't told them I might not be bisexual either. It would be a different thing with my mother's relatives though, they are so religious... And by religious I mean intolerant. My mom's cousin died a few months ago this year because he couldn't get proper treatment for AIDS, and in his own funeral people would lament that he died because of his lifestyle, not because he wasn't able to find support in his own family.

 

No. Thankfully I don't have it that bad. I can't say I've never had suicidal thoughts (nothing to do with my sexuality though) but I don't think I have ever actually considered it.

 

I don't know, because when I first told my friend I was trans I was certain I would if she told anyone. Thinking back I don't think I would have unless I was really in danger.

 

I have, but not for these reasons.