Mom doesn't understand my sexuality.

[Perfectly Flawed]

Well first I just came out to my parents as bisexual a few hours ago. The problem is my mom thinks bisexual people are actually gay. She accepts my sexuality, but she just doesn't understand it. Do you guys have any advice on how I can teach her about it? I noticed VT parents section only has gay/lesbian so :(

[tyler007]

Hey Congrats on coming out to your parents, that awesome and took so much courage. On day i hope to tell my as-well. I am out to friends and im sure they know, it just gos unsaid.
I guess that you should just keep on doing what you are doing, maybe date and bring girls over to the house, and introduce them as you gf... same for boys too if you have a bf. Your mom sounds pretty cool, so just take to more about it being bi, and like both boys and girls about the same.

[Travis Is Losing It]

Your mom accepts with wow thats kinda awesome and lucky on your part. But i guess she just needs it FLAT OUT explained. Your straight as in you like girls but your gay as in you like guys. your both. not hard of a concept. But congrats on coming out man

[christcenteredlife]

personally, i'd wait and let her come to me with questions. if it's really bothering you, go online and get some facts backing up bi sexuality, then you'll have something in your corner with you.

[Syvelocin]

Just say you don't discriminate. ;) That may not be technically true unless you'd be fine with other genders but as far as they know, that could be accurate. "I love whether it's a boy or a girl, it doesn't matter to me. It has no effect on the person they are." But that may be a bit too pansexual for you if you're just bi.

[Kujiro]

Yup, that's a good way to put it, you are comfortable with both genders.
You share the same amount of love equally to both.
And you can end up in being attached to girls and guys in equal probability.

I'm sure she would pretty much get the idea.
But it takes great courage to tell them, and takes a whole lot more to accept it in such grace.

You should thank her for being understanding and supportive.

Well done
*smile*

[Travis Is Losing It]

yah. like alot of bi's like me will "Prefer" one over another such as i "prefer" girls over guys but i would still date a guy and sleep with a guy but "prefer" it to be a girl. if thats how you are then explain it like that, if you are equal (a pansexual as stated before) with both then explain it in that way

[christcenteredlife]

pansexuality is NOT bisexuality, it's not even liking males and females equally. pansexuality is liking someone with gender aside. it's like someone sexually based on personality and not sex/gender.

[Syvelocin]

^ Yes. Pansexuals would date people who are genderless and transgenders as well as men and women. I used to identify as panromantic before realizing I was gay. But basically, it's like I said. Gender has no effect on it. I was just trying to come up with a way to make it more understandable to people who aren't familiar with being bi.

[lausonfarleyii]

i am so scared to come out to my parents especially my dad he hates gays

[spw184]

Not to discredit bisexuals, but In one study of 100 Bisexuals hooked to brainscans, roughly 75% here ONLY turned on by gay erotica, while 25% ONLY by straight erotica. Not a single person in the study was turned on equally by straight. And gay. (we are talking brainwave turned on, not my cock is throbbing turned on)

[Camazot]

its so cool u came out my mom knows im at least bi because she saw the porn i was watching... but i havent came out yet because she has it in her head that im not... also because my family is really prejudice and judgemental

[ImCoolBeans]

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