Last night, my mom came into my room to talk about something else that happened earlier, and then after the whole ordeal, she started asking me why am I so aggressive with her and I told her that it was because she doesn’t call me by my preferred name or pronouns. But then, she started giving me a whole lecture that “she went through a similar experience” when it came to having crushes on people regardless of gender. I kind of believed her at that part, but then she also talked about how it’s “just a phase” for me to be transgender and have those pronouns. She told me that she was not flexible enough to just refer to me as whatever I was feeling like those few months. She says that it happens so often. It’s like she’s never understood what being genderfluid is. I was already starting to go into one of my autistic shutdowns, but she wouldn’t stop. She said that what I was doing was going to have a huge impact on my younger siblings if she started using my preferred name & pronouns. She said that I was just believing the one-sided YouTube videos that she thinks I watch. She said that I don’t listen to multiple perspectives on one topic. I told her that wasn’t true and she told me that she’s giving me until tomorrow (so, today) to think of who do I trust more, my family or strangers on the internet. I’m thankful that she doesn’t know about ImgFlip because if she did, she would’ve given me a longer lecture about not talking to strangers through the internet. I just don’t know who or what to trust anymore…
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