Wow. That's jumping into the deep end right away. I've got to say, Ashley, that you and SelinaKyle are a couple of the neatest people I've come across on this board. Oh, that's 60s-speak for being, like really cool. A couple of hep-cats. (Software patch wanted for colloquial language skills later than the 1980s...)
Parents? Whiteboard or slideshow? Nah. Powerpoint. Maybe 200 slides should do it...
But seriously, parents can be hard. They've known us longer than anyone, they have a very strong fixed image of us, and any variation from that is disquieting. They may think of it as being their fault, as we older folks were constantly bombarded with junk about 'forming their delicate minds' (mostly to promote 'educational' toys), and we can think that any problems in our offspring are there because we did something wrong, we broke them.
Try to be reassuring. When you start off telling them, reassure them that you have something important to say, but you are fine, in good health. Folks here who have done this can probably tell you some good details about how they handled it. (My parents were both gone long before I came out, alas. Mom would have understood. Dad, not so much.)
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