Well, that was kind of unexpected...

[kirby1024]

I may have previously mentioned about how my mum didn't take my previous boyfriend so well. So, I figured that considering the many interesting characteristics of my beloved not_in_denial, that I would ease my mother into him, take the revelations slowly and surely, and try very hard not to freak my mum out.

So, I went to my parents' place for dinner tonight, and found out that my mum had already found out. Apparently found not_in_denial's LJ through my own and read up on my boy. Amazingly enough, took everything else in their stride. The trans-ness, the poly-ness, my mum took pretty much without incident. She noted that she spent some time just being amused by the absurdity of the trans situation, but that was about the most of her reaction.

This has had me rather... bewildered, really. I was so not expecting my mum to be as positive about the whole thing as she was. Kinda cool, actually, just so entirely unexpected.

Oh, and since I know that both of you read this now... Hi Mum! Hi Dad! *waves* Hope you enjoyed the tickle video previously!

Comments

[not-in-denial.livejournal.com]

"Interesting characteristics"! You make it sound so much nicer than "deviant genderfucked poly crip"!

[kirby1024.livejournal.com]

It's a skill! :)

[damostaranth.livejournal.com]

Who says a degree in linguistics won't teach you anything?

...Well nobody to my knowledge but that's entirely beside the point.

[mauvedragon.livejournal.com]

It could have been so much worse. Not just about the things you hadn't told them either. Relatives reading my lj and my mum combined to make me friends lock almost all of mine some time ago.

[tacomonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm going to say the same thing I said to Erin on the phone when he told me:

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Ahem.

[proxyryan.livejournal.com]

Well, now *I'm* insulted. :)

[hikaizer.livejournal.com]

It's always interesting when you find out your parents have checked your LJ. XD

Although my mum stopped reading mine a while after I came back from China...

...I think.

[originaluddite.livejournal.com]

The geography of the Internet is kinda surreal. If I am (say) at some bar down a laneway in the City appreciating a burlesque show there there is basically zero chance of my parents walking in and bumping into me. But what if the world were the Internet? That door over behind the pot plants past the stage may just access the janitors closet. But lo and behold there is a living room on the other side and my parents can wander into my bar in an instant. I wonder what is behind the other doors here? Behind this one is the office of my boss? And in here is the bedroom of an ex. How small can the world get?