I completely understand, my mother was born in 1946 and my dad in 1955, so their views came very set in stone. My mother, thankfully, had an older daughter with a different husband who was very much a hippie and very much a free spirit, and that caused my mother to re-evaluate many of her preconceptions about things, so she wasn't as closed minded as many of her generation. I know she would support me if she were still in her right mind, but that's not possible anymore. My father, though, is exactly the same person he always has been. Spiteful, rude and callous. So there's no hope there. I understand completely on the parents not being able to tell, lol, I was able to make it through most of my school career without raising too much suspicion, though of course internally I wished I'd had the strength to be me and transition, I just...couldn't handle it then. I regret that so much. Leaving it later definitely made things harder. But either way, I did a decent job of sneaking through as just an invisible nobody and that was fine with me. Neither parent was any the wiser, lol. You're absolutely right, it's their loss if they're going to miss out because of who and what I am. I can't change it, it's me. We are who we are, and that's beautiful.
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