Personal Narrative: Telling My Mother

Telling my mother that I am a lesbian was the biggest accomplishment I ever did. When I was a kid, she would always scold me for acting boyish and playing with boy's toys. I had my first crush when I was in third grade. I could not tell anyone because I had a crush on a girl. For most of my life I had been a closed book. Hiding the real me took all my confidence away. It felt like one wrong move, and the world would judge me. It took me fifteen years to finally had the courage to tell my family the real me. And of course, they we're very upset about it. But in the end, they accepted me for what I am. They told me how they always knew but they thought I would change.

That experience was a life changer for me. Knowing that my family supports