That's awesome man, your mom rocks!!! You're so lucky

I'm glad thing went well for you.
Unfortunately for me, I did go through the phase where I tried to conform to "being a girl" which...only made me more depressed.....but my mom probably saw it as me "coming out of tomboy phase" and now that I've done a complete 180 in her eyes, it will probably take much longer for her to accept me for who I am.
The good thing is she's doing her research so some part of her is coping