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YouTubers share how they came out to their parents in beautifully honest video
Teens looking to YouTube for coming out videos can now watch an ultimate compilation of stories, thanks to Ashley Mardell.
The 23-year-old pansexual vlogger, who has more than 188,200 subscribers to her YouTube channel, decided to collaborate with four other YouTubers to share the unpolished reality of coming out to your parents.
‘Some stories are ridiculously happy and easy, while others frankly are hard to hear,’ she said.
‘But I didn’t want to present an exaggerated conversation, romanticizing and glamorizing coming out. I just wanted realness; for you to hear these people’s authentic vulnerable truths.’
The video is a collaboration with Chandler, who is agender and uses they/them pronouns, and also stars Timmy, who is gay, Damian, who is asexual, and Amanda, who is a lesbian. The group have a combined subscriber figure of more than 685,000 people.
Chandler, whose sister is transgender, explained how their coming out affected their family.
‘Being transgender never came up in my family prior to my sister coming out, so we didn’t know that my dad was really, really, really, really, really transphobic,’ they said.
Luckily, their mom was much more supportive.
‘I was talking about my sister, I was saying you’ve been a lot more supportive with my sister, which is great for me, so you know how I’ve been going as chandler in some of my classes? Well, it’s because I’m agender.’
‘I said ‘I’m gonna cry’ and she said ‘I am too’ and she said ‘But you know I love you’, and she stood up and she walked over to me and we hugged and as soon as we hugged I immediately started crying.’
Damian, who is asexual, initially confused his asexuality for homosexuality – and came out to his family as gay.
‘After I told my parents I was asexual they said ‘Yeah we kind of thought that was a thing the whole time, but we didn’t want to say anything cos we didn’t want to seem rude’,’ he explained.
19-year-old Amanda had never previously said she was gay on YouTube, but is now out to her parents after her dad confronted her when he noticed she had pictures of women as her desktop background.
She shared how he was initially supportive, but soon things took a sour turn.
‘But then he goes to hug me, and as he has his arms around me, he says ‘But you’re still going to Hell’. At that moment is when everything changed.’
Now Amanda is waiting to move out of her parents’ house, and is dealing with their negativity.
‘The thing I want people to know is that you don’t need acceptance from your family,’ she said. ‘I’m only going to be around this negativity for a fraction of how long I’ll be alive.’
Timmy, who describes himself as ‘gay a f!’ shared how his mom accepted him from the moment he came out.
‘This one day, I just decided I was going to do it,’ he said. ‘I opened that closet door and I just walked my gay ass out! I went downstairs, I saw my mom there and said ‘I have to talk to you. It’s something big’.’
As well as sharing their personal stories, the YouTubers share their tips for young people getting ready to come out to their parents.
‘Make sure you’re ready, in a safe place, and then shine your rainbow flag, be your complete self, it’s the best feeling in the world,’ Timmy said.
‘And just know that if you do go through a hard time because of it that hard time will pass no matter what and your life will feel amazing afterwards.’
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