I came out to my parents in a family therapy session and I still don't know quite how I feel about it. They say they love and support me, but they think if I come out at school that I'll be more miserable than I will if I stay in the closet. They just found out, so I'm gonna give them time to process and also take a little time to process for myself. Ugh. I feel better having told them, but also just ugh.
Good for you for coming out, that was a brave thing to do (even in a therapy setting) It is the nature of parents to be over protective. My late mother, at 93, worried about all her children even though all of us were near retirement age. Your parents seem great, but it will take them some time to get their heads around it. You probably took years to come to terms with being genderqueer, they probably had to look up the dictionary meaning of the word.
