Demographics
First Name: Anonymous
Age: 20
Gender/Pronouns: –
Sexuality: Asexual
Region/Area: Cincinnati
Race/Ethnicity: White
Story
Actually coming out for the first time went really well. I told my two best friends at the time over text, and they were both lovely and supportive, asking me how long I knew, telling me it was awesome, etc. Problems only came later when one of those friends would like low-key invalidate me when I came out to other people around her. I remember once I mentioned being ace to one of her friends, who straight up just replied “I don’t believe you” and instead of backing me up, my friend laughed and said “don’t worry, I think she’s just a lesbian in denial about it” so that was. really fun. Nowadays I have better friends and many of them are ace themselves so coming out has been very chill.