1st year being out...

[confusedboy]

Hey guys. Just wondering if you could share advise or stories about your 1st year being out @ school. I came out just before summer started. I was happy all my friends accepted me but know I've got to face everyone else.

[TurboDieselBandit]

Don’t worry about what others think. You've heard people say it many times but it’s true. Think about it, even if every one dislikes you, you still have a limited time that you will have to deal with them. When you graduate you won’t ever see most of them again and the people around you at that point won’t even care. ALL of them have there own insecurities they struggle with every day; every one has insecurities even if we won't admit it. If anything, you should pity them because they are still slaves to there OWN image and what there peers think of them. Your peers don’t put food on your table or put clothes on your back. They can’t get you a job, they can’t put you through collage, they can’t buy you a car or house, and most of all they don’t determine how good of a person you are. Your peers are powerless unless YOU give them the power to lower your self esteem. This school year make the decision in your mind that you will not give your peers ANY control over you, your mind, or emotions. Why spend so much energy caring what teens, who don't matter to you, think of you. As you press through you will notice the "tuff" guys are really just pretenders who are desperate for acceptance and are willing to do anything to get it. You might also notice that you have become a positive influence and role model to the many other teens facing the same challenge, including your enemies. You will also force your enemies to respect you even if they don’t show it. We never know how much we impact others, but we always do. Whether it’s for good or evil is ALL we control.

[Huskyboy132]

I came out to my friends in 8th grade (last year) and they found it wierd at first but now its all cool and we talk about guys and stuff. Have you come out to your parents? Im not planning to until I move out. :P

[KenFisher]

Well, I only realised that I'm more likely to be bi/gay than straight when I totally fell in love with a guy (who happened to be one of my best friends. Not sure what he thought of me then...) nearly 2 years ago.
Then next March I told him.
3 days later, he ignored me.
A little while after that, people in my year and his year knows and yet a little while later, his brother's.
And after that, it's kinda a known fact that I like guys. And that I'm officially bi. And that I asked him out (NOT)
*sigh*
Since then, apparently people gave him hell for half a year calling him gay. (When I got told, I was like, wtf? I confessed to him, he gets called gay?) So he completely ditched me.
And me, well, after the ecstatic 'OMG I've done it' moment, and a while after that, people kept asking me. In the summer, I tried to make things better talking to him, but at the start of school, it failed. So, I tried again, was alright for a while, but failed again. Repeat X, but take away the 'alright for a while'.
*sigh*
So, at the end, releasing your rage on a bag is not sensible. Esp. when it's not yours.
Hell ensures as parents tell school and it takes action.
Stopping me from seeing my friends for a while.
Need to change school for 6th form.
*sigh*
I've destroyed a perfect oppotunity making good friends with him myself after that. I told a friend that I still like him, and somehow, it seems like she told him. (Major cursing...Why do I say these things?)
*sigh*
Now, I've tried so hard, and we're just barely friends now. Better than nothing~
(rant over!)
So, that's what happened with me a year and a bit after telling him.
*sigh*
Kev

[confusedboy]

Thanks anyone for your stories & advise. I won't people get to me or control me. As for HuskyBoy132, they do know & are trying to be supportive :)