Thing is, some of us never came out, because we were never in a closet. I knew about my weirdnesses many years before I developed any kind of verbal or social brakes. Also some of the things that complicated my life were conspicuous and not concealable. Number one on that list was ... my parents being schoolteachers. This guaranteed that other children would hate me, and I didn't care, because my parents are awesome. Since I had exactly zero chance of being popular no matter what I did, there was no reward for conforming and therefore not much pressure. Not that it would've worked anyhow, but it was kind of nice to have such an obvious reason for the prejudice and for my indifference. I did eventually learn that there were things that would make people extra berserk, and I figured out which ones I was willing and able to modulate to some degree. There are things I'm more open about, and things I'm less open about. But for the most part, I can fake being normal for a maximum of about three hours and then I am exhausted. No closet could possibly contain that. You might as well try to contain a bonfire in a paper lantern. (We did that once. It was spectacular for the 30 seconds or so that it lasted.) And that makes a difference in how people experience the world. How early they knew themselves, and whether the less-common traits were ever hidden.
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Elizabeth Barrette
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A Comic About Closets
Thing is, some of us never came out, because we were never in a closet. I knew about my weirdnesses many years before I developed any kind of verbal or social brakes. Also some of the things that complicated my life were conspicuous and not concealable. Number one on that list was ... my parents being schoolteachers. This guaranteed that other children would hate me, and I didn't care, because my parents are awesome. Since I had exactly zero chance of being popular no matter what I did, there was no reward for conforming and therefore not much pressure. Not that it would've worked anyhow, but it was kind of nice to have such an obvious reason for the prejudice and for my indifference. I did eventually learn that there were things that would make people extra berserk, and I figured out which ones I was willing and able to modulate to some degree. There are things I'm more open about, and things I'm less open about. But for the most part, I can fake being normal for a maximum of about three hours and then I am exhausted. No closet could possibly contain that. You might as well try to contain a bonfire in a paper lantern. (We did that once. It was spectacular for the 30 seconds or so that it lasted.) And that makes a difference in how people experience the world. How early they knew themselves, and whether the less-common traits were ever hidden.
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