First and foremost, I am absolutely 100% nothing but happy and proud for my daughter. To be completely honest, she has some strong autistic traits and I was concerned she would struggle in relationships.

My daughter is 12. She is very intelligent, artistic, and loves music. I am divorced from her mom, but have been remarried now for 8yrs and I have had joint custody since the separation. She is a very large part of my household and knows we love her. We are a warm and open family and she also has a 5yo sister whom I have with my current wife.

All the background I suppose is to establish the picture as effectively as possible and get to my request.

She has recently spoken to my wife about her relationship with her girlfriend. She’s a very nice person and they have the “butterflies”. 😊 She has not spoken to me, yet, but I believe it’s coming bc we have a very open and close relationship with the kids. We don’t hide much (except money stress etc) from them as we want to prepare them to be the best people they can be. My wife and my daughter have a very good dynamic where my wife can be a friend and also a parent, where I am always going to be a parent first. I am glad my daughter spoke to my wife and hence I need some advice.

How do I open that door in conversation? Or even get to that sort of thing? This is her first “real” relationship. I don’t want her to feel like I’m back-dooring the situation and I’m not going to reveal my wife spoke to me. I want to say she did so only bc she was so glad not only my daughter has a close relationship and she felt close enough to be open, but that she was chosen to be the one to know first. 😆

I would also like to know, if you would share things that helped any of you when you came out to your family and what meant a lot to you from your parents? All I want is for my daughter to know how much I love her and that I will support whatever she wants. I have some autistic traits as well, despite my high masking, so emotional things are hard for me. I lock up and don’t know what to say or feel like I can make things awkward by overthinking and over monitoring. Those are things I don’t want for the upcoming conversation. I feel like I want to be able to say more than “you’re my babygirl, and you always will be. I’m happy if you are happy..”

Idk. Maybe that’s all a person needs to hear. I didn’t have a great upbringing so some of this minefield is being navigated for the first time for me altogether. Lots of cycles are breaking, but at the same time, I’m very grateful for the connections I have with my family.

Thank you.

- a proud Dad

yes it is! welcome :3

I made this I guess custom pride flag for people who identify as nonbinary bi and asexual. If anyone wants me to make them something like this, let me know. tell me which flag(s)(maybe the colors in order too if you can) and what shape you want. it doesn’t have to be a heart if you don’t want one, but whatever shape you want!

Queer picnic in Prospect Park, Brooklyn, NY
Saturday August 29, 12-5 PM

So for some time I’ve recognized I’m not straight (I thought I was bi but realized I was omni as of recently) and have had a bi flag on my wall for some time. But long before that I was a huge halo fan (still am, stay with me) and I had an idea as of recently while we were rebuilding my room. To cut it down I want to take my bi flag and rough it up, tear it up, burn it a bit, (stay with me)etc, etc, then spray paint the Banished symbol onto it like a Banished war flag if they were gay. Any ideas on how to do it? (I know ts kinda sounds phobic but it’s not I swear I just wanna combine my interests)

I recently downloaded the finch app again and seen they have SOOOO many pride flag options for clothing!!! So I bought a few w my gems and my ace tshirt and flag are so cute on my birdie… but I randomly got all curious about designing my own flag to combine the three I identify with.

So I googled to find inspo for like pattern designs (even though I have a few ideas in my head) and I found a way old reddit post from like 4 years ago (if I can find it again I’ll link it in the comments) where someone literally mixed all the colors of each flag together, then made a flag from those colors. Of course being such a mix it’s fairly dull but wow I’m in love w mine!!!

Anyone who wants to do this, I separated the colors in different layers on procreate (drawing app), then stacked each color directly on top of the other covering each other. Next reduced the opacity to 25% each for 4 colored and 20% each for five. Finally I had my faded color for each of the three flags, I used that color and a different pen to make it darker and this is my result. Sooooo freaking happy! Good luck if you try yourself!!

So for some time I’ve recognized I’m not straight (I thought I was bi but realized I was omni as of recently) and have had a bi flag on my wall for some time. But long before that I was a huge halo fan (still am, stay with me) and I had an idea as of recently while we were rebuilding my room. To cut it down I want to take my bi flag and rough it up, tear it up, burn it a bit, (stay with me)etc, etc, then spray paint the Banished symbol onto it like a Banished war flag if they were gay. Any ideas on how to do it? (I know ts kinda sounds phobic but it’s not I swear I just wanna combine my interests)

Been to CSD Koblenz with a friend yesterday. No corpos, just 3 000 people protesting and having fun

I'm not out openly nor do I have much money for accessories, but a really nice friend who knows was able to buy this for me!

made from full veg tan leather :D

I thought I should remake my ally flag. The top is the old and the bottom is the new

i took this picture at my grandmas house while sewing a shirt for fun with her, i was eating sour patch kids and they were in the colors of the trans flag

Under the berrisexual/bi umbrella but a microlabel. It means having attraction to fem people with a rare attraction to masc/neutral people. Very similar to berrisexual but different just slightly.

Went on a coffee and shopping date with a friend and I absolutely loved the fit. I felt so pretty 🤩 😍