Making A Fool Of Myself

[Gina Taylor]

The bolded would just make it worse/harder for them to accept us.

That reminds me of a book by Clive Barker called The Thief of Always. The main character, 10-year-old Harvey Swick, runs off with a mysterious man to a place called The Holiday House where all our biggest holidays happen every day along with every season. When he manages to find his way back to the real world, and runs home, it's been 31 years — a year for every day he was gone — and his parents are in complete denial that he's standing right there, still 10 years old. So Harvey realizes he can't ever go home again, and must return to The Holiday House to destroy the evil behind it.

Too much change, after having been gone for years, has only got to be more devastating. So you just have to tough it out, and over time it will become easier and easier for others to get used to the changes. That's the optimistic way of looking at it, anyway.

I remember that book and how much I enjoyed it, but you are right, by changing too much can be quite hurtful and painful, so I will tough it out and will gradually let others adapt to the changes that are happening to me. At least friends are more prone to these changes than my family are.