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Hopefully, you will learn that just because someone may not agree with you or your lifestyle, (or you don't agree with theirs) doesn't mean they can't still be a good person or a good friend to you (or you a caring person to them). Just because someone feels one way about something, doesn't mean they feel that way about YOU as a person.
Lifestyle preferences/choices do not actually define who we are as people. Your character and how you treat others is what matters. If you were in a burning house, nobody is going to let you die because you're bisexual! People can still love you, regardless. And they do, especially your family.
If you can look past "politics", you'll find that people have so much more to offer, including you!
Look at it this way, you have special needs, you need people. You have to learn to look past these things and accept people for who they are if you want them to respect & accept you in return. It goes both ways.
Because i came out as bisexual a long time ago, but for some reason my mom seems to want to associate with people who view being LGBT as wrong who are in their family, instead of simply splitting off contact with them.
Maybe she believes in letting people have their own opinions about things? It's a thing with us older people!
Because i came out as bisexual a long time ago, but for some reason my mom seems to want to associate with people who view being LGBT as wrong who are in their family, instead of simply splitting off contact with them.
She didn't dictate your sexual orientation, maybe you don't dictate who she associates with. Fair enough?
No one should have to tolerate someone telling them they are less-than. If that's how they wanna be they can do it somewhere else.
Where did anyone say the OP was "less-than"? According to what little the OP wrote, some unknown person about which we know absolutely nothing specific, thought the OP's lifestyle was "wrong". We know nothing about why or how the OP even became aware of this view. It is possible to disagree with someone else without belittling them, insulting them, or persecuting them. I guess it bears repeating again...people are multifaceted. It is possible to acknowledge and benignly accept someone who doesn't happen to be a mirror image of yourself. Discerning, tolerant, and civilized people do it all the time. Speaking of assumptions, I'd suggest you are just as guilty of making them as the OP.
Tolerance is subordinate to many other things. In this case tolerance would be subordinate to boundaries. Too much tolerance and you're tolerating abuse.
Can you imagine trying to be the perfectly tolerant. Next thing you know you are watching a crime and not speaking up.
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Where did anyone say the OP was "less-than"? According to what little the OP wrote, some unknown person about which we know absolutely nothing specific, thought the OP's lifestyle was "wrong". We know nothing about why or how the OP even became aware of this view. It is possible to disagree with someone else without belittling them, insulting them, or persecuting them. I guess it bears repeating again...people are multifaceted. It is possible to acknowledge and benignly accept someone who doesn't happen to be a mirror image of yourself. Discerning, tolerant, and civilized people do it all the time. Speaking of assumptions, I'd suggest you are just as guilty of making them as the OP.
