Helping my mom write a letter to explain both my gender and sexuality situation to my extended family. THAT'S a fun little bit of wordsmithing. o.o

Not included in the letter, thankfully: the polyamory thing or the paganism thing.

I still dunno what she thinks about the Paganism thing; I only brought it up once really, around winter solstice 2015, and basically got an "Oh that's nice..."

Which is certainly much better than such things go sometimes! But I do, for instance, wonder what she's thinking is happnening now when I do agree to pray for folks, etc. ;)

@indi if given up sharing anything personal at all with my family and they sort of know if they misgender or deadname I'll just silently walk.

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@Fuego I'm so distant from all of them that I never saw much point in dealing with it, but my mom thought it was time, because of folks aging, legal complications, etc. Which is also why she wanted to write the letter. Which is also also why I'm mildly weary about having to rewrite chunks of it.

@indi hey well... at least you know that if she saw you as masculine she wouldn't expect you to do all this free emotional labor!

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