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Started by michael 19 jones, September 22, 2008, 09:39:13 PM

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michael 19 jones

I'm facing a difficult part of coming out. I need to come out to my 3 years younger brother and I just don't know how to do it. I know he looks up to me like a little brother does to the older one. I just don't want to make him feel horrible. Make him feel like he has been look up to the wrong person all this time.

Does anyone has experience about this and had their younger siblings still accept their older sibling.   
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Aiden

I recently had to come out to my 14 year old sister.  Though turned out my aunt had already told her.  Not sure how well she handled it since I wasn't there where can see her, but aunt tells me she said she wished I stayed like I am...

Hoping which visit her next week (been 2 years since seen her) can speak to her more about it.


Afraid I don't have to much in way of advice though.  Just try to speak to them in person if can.
Every day we pass people, do we see them or the mask they wear?
If you live under a mask long enough, does it eventually break or wear down?  Does it become part you?  Maybe alone, they are truly themselves?  Or maybe they have forgotten or buried themselves so long, they forget they are not a mask?
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tekla

My younger siblings, and in my case, they are all younger siblings, were all cool with it.
FIGHT APATHY!, or don't...
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deviousxen

My brother disowned me over an X box, and I'm having my parents tell him cause I'm pissed at him.


He'll hate me.
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Kaitlyn

Well, my 12-year old sister hates me for literally no reason at all, and is actually proud to say so.  She absolutely cannot spend a day around me without verbally abusing me.  She can't go two days without wishing me dead.  She steals and destroys my property.  She deliberately arranges situations where I have to do things for her because no one else is available, and then goes on at length about how she doesn't care about what I've just done for her.  She threatens my life.  She physically attacks me in serious fashion - the worst was when we were in the car together, traveling at 65 MPH, and I was the driver.  She's actually enraged me into what most courts would see as child abuse on two different occasions.  I once seriously considered killing her - and it's all just manipulation on her part.  If a shrink knew half of her history, he'd diagnose Conduct Disorder (or even psychopathy) in a heartbeat.  I'd have to be the world's biggest, most gullible, most self-destructive idiot to tell her anything.

The worst part is, my parents - especially my mother - get the same treatment to a somewhat lesser degree, and they KNOW and AGREE on how bad she can be.  My mother - who doesn't believe in hitting children for any reason - is deathly afraid to administer any kind of punishment or enforcement of punishment, even to drag her to her room, for fear that she'd lose control and wind up killing her through escalation and bottled-up frustration.  Yet, nothing is done about the situation.

Maybe because of having to live through that sort of abuse together, I've got a close bond with my younger brother.  I've considered telling him, but I'm just not sure how he'd take it, and I'd hate to ruin my relationship with him.
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled."
— Plutarch
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Jay

I told my sister who is was 18 at the time she didn't really say anything it just came out. My younger sister 10 year old doesn't know yet she knows I have changed my name though and has asked on various occassions if I want to be a boy and I have just changed the subject. She looks up to me also and I am extremly close to her like a third parent of kind! I will tell her when she is slightly older.


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michael 19 jones

Quote from: Jay on September 24, 2008, 02:53:35 PM
I told my sister who is was 18 at the time she didn't really say anything it just came out. My younger sister 10 year old doesn't know yet she knows I have changed my name though and has asked on various occassions if I want to be a boy and I have just changed the subject. She looks up to me also and I am extremly close to her like a third parent of kind! I will tell her when she is slightly older.

Are you still in contact in with the 18 yr old and How is she taking it since you came out to her?

Family is very important to me and I would hate to do anything that would cause a split that will never heal. I just need to start dressing as myself at home and not just at the support group.  :(
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