Thanks for all the replies and sincere advice! I’m really glad I found this forum, as well as the answers to many of the questions that have burdened me for years.
It has been very frustrating for me to be unable to share my deepest concerns about my identity with the people I love—mum, dad, best friends, girlfriend... I know they care for me, and want to understand and help me, however, I also know that there’s only a slim chance they would be able to accept me. Conversations always go something like this. “Mum, I’m depressed”… “About?”…”Oh, you wouldn’t understand”, “What is it? Tell me”…”Forget it”. And I get this shiver down my spine every time my father glares at some guy in a pink shirt and mutters “transvestite!” under his breath, utterly unaware that his son’s secret fetish. Here’s my question. How many of you actually told your family and friends about your CDing voluntarily instead of being discovered? Is it possible to always keep it a secret, if you know that your family would never accept it?
