Gonna come out to my extended family on Thanksgiving (a few of them already know and are cool, but a few I’m unsure of), and I’m even gonna come out in my conservative workplace. Gonna start the process by talking to HR asap.

If the conservatives are gonna be insufferable, so am I. I was scared before about what they would think of me but fuck it I have no respect for them. I can’t let them control me any more.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.