My 15 year old son came out as gay over the weekend. I'm fine with it but it came as a complete surprise. I honestly thought he was kidding at first. I don't have many people in real life I can talk to about this since my son only came out to us. He's an athlete and doesn't want anyone at his school to find out so I can't talk about it with any of my parent friends because they are the parents of kids at his school.I joined an online support group for parents of LGBT kids. Mostly to get advice on how to deal with family members reactions (conservative Christian extended family). One of the things that I noticed was almost every parent said that they always knew their child was gay and even knew before their child knew. It kind of made me feel bad and some people were offended by me saying that I was shocked and assumed it was because I was reducing sexuality to stereotypes.Do most people realize their kids sexual orientation even before the child does? I am close to my kids but I'm wondering if I need to be more in tune. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2D60S2c
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