its saddening to know that my family think the lgbtq+ community are confused people (besides gay people, they’re not so nasty about them) and as someone who is demiromantic asexual, they continuously shame me and say things like: “when you’re twenty one, i bet you’re gonna fall in love. that’s a lucky number!” or, “you once said you like girls, so you’re a lesbian.” or even, “sex is a normal thing” and things like; “you’re not normal remember.”
wanna know a sadder thing? not only do my parents and brothers and who they hang out with think like that, and think the horrible slurs are okay to say, but my little niece who turned eight recently thinks the same. i try and enlighten them that the things they say aren’t okay, and they always come back with saying: “back when i was younger, we could say that and no one would be a prude or pussy about it. this generation are weaklings.” — i just hope. . .one day, they come to the realisation that their words aren’t the nicest and that they’re very damaging.