Hi! Another new girl here.

Hello! I'm Duckling and I'm 17 years old. I like in a very small town in South Carolina, and I am demisexual panromantic. I started questioning when I was 11 or 12, but then somehow managed to convince myself that I was straight until I was about 16 (I don't know how that works, but whatever).

Right now, I'm teetering between mostly and completely out. I'm not trying to hide anything, and I'll mention it if the conversation brings up an opening, but I'm not going up to people and being all, "Hi! I'm demisexual panromantic!" and I've only recently started telling people, so a lot of people don't know yet. I just came out to my mother on Friday, though, and I'm proud of myself.

So.... I don't know what else to say, so I guess that's it.

 

Pretty okay. I started out by explaining it to her (there was an opening in the conversation), but I'm not sure if she really understood? She started with the demisexuality and asked if that could be a phase, and mentioned that it could just be me being a good girl... and then I told her about pansexuality and she asked if that meant that I was also attracted to girls. I told her yes and then she asked about a close friend of mine and I explained that I am not attracted to every girl, and then she changed the subject. I figure that she was just processing it.

 

Sounds like something she'd do under normal circumstances, but she certainly remembered when I told her that I'm an atheist. Oh, well. I'll see what happens. I imagine that her reaction wouldn't get much worse.

 

Thank you everyone!