Makes me a bit down reading some people's bad experiences, and I can imagine how anxiety-inducing the whole thing must have been. Some people just can't put themselves in someone's shoes even for a moment, and only hear things that they disagree with (and how it might impact THEM and their life alone). But such a thing might be a big deal for some families...
As for me, I've got no story really (considering that I went through many periods when I was younger where I was sure I was one thing, but I wasn't). Despite all the research I did, dating just never appealed to me, so that led me to look into things some more a couple of years back, and I discovered asexuality was a thing.
Only my parents know such things, and the rest of my family don't need to. Most wouldn't really be impacted, but it's not something that needs discussing. No one's got "great expectations" for me, and we all just live our own lives for the most part.
Some of my family's friends assumes I'll settle down one day, but little do they know...
Though I know older folks aren't always trying to be hurtful; they grew up/lived in different times, so there is definitely a generational gap there, but since these people are practically family, there's no problem really.
As for my parents, my mom's such an open-minded, loving woman, and my dad just doesn't care either way (we don't really talk about more "serious topics, but we get along great, considering we're on the more quiet side), so I'm in a good place
