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Okay. Now here is my coming out story.
I honestly wouldn't say it was me coming out, it was me getting exposed.
It was I think -- October in 8th grade so almost 3 years ago and I stayed home from school that day. A few weeks earlier, I got an old phone of mine. It was really crappy, but it had enough capability to do things such as download apps from the Play Store, surf the web, etc. but I wasn't allowed to have a phone. It just so happens that on that day, our power got cut off because my parents forgot to pay the electric bill and I couldn't use the house phone to call them and let them know, so I put my SIM Card from my phone they were holding into my phone they didn't know I had, telling them that I had all of the sudden found it in my room somewhere and that I'm only using it to tell them that the power got cut off.

They were okay with it and I thought everything was gonna go okay. I thought wrong.

Later that night after dinner, my mom was sitting at the table with my stepdad and she calls me back to the table and said "Let me see that phone of yours." and stupid ol' me went ahead and gave it to her thinking she was just gonna look, but she started looking through all my apps. I was very very very nervous because I may or may not have a gay porn blog on Tumblr and it was one of the apps on the phone. I asked her to see the phone and she refused to give it back to me, so I tried to take it from her only for her to push me and we end up ... basically wrestling. (On a side note: I remember she had me with my chest on the ground and I couldn't get up so I bit her wrist and she said "So you're gonna bite me you little b***h?") In the midst of this, my stepdad is going through the phone and after a while my mom and I stop.

So both my mom and I end up going to different bathrooms and start crying blahblahblah and my stepdad comes in and tells me to take a shower. So I do. When I got out of the bathroom, my mom said "Get dressed and when you're ready we need to talk." My heart was already in my a** by that point, but I did anyway.

After I get dressed, my mom and I go to sit out on the patio and she asks why I didn't want her to look through my phone and I tell her how she's really annoying because she always likes to go through things and read things and I just wanted privacy and she then exposes me and tells me Rob, my stepdad, saw the porn and told her about it.

I was busted.

So we both get emotional and she asks why I never wanted to tell her, and it was because she would always make these homophobic remarks and I didn't want her to hate me or anything because I would always read about how there's gay teens that get kicked out and end up homeless because their parents are homophobic and she told me "No matter what happens, I will always love you."

After that, it was a little awkward at first but we just ended up getting so used to it. My entire family knows now, my stepbrother was the last to find out because he was homophobic and I didn't want him to dislike me or anything. (Tables are turned now because I honestly can't stand him sometimes because I'm always so nice to him and in return he's a d**k to me so I retaliate by being a d**k and I'm the one that gets in trouble.)

So that's my coming out story. c:

i accept you ouo