I didn't really know I was coming out when I was coming out... let me explain.

I was at a new school and in 7th grade. I was too young to know what I was really doing, I guess you could say and I didn't know people would treat me that bad. I was kind of embarrassed but I didn't really care either at first if people knew... I think, but I'm not sure, that a girl named Mya told a bunch of people, and that's when all my friend's found out, because she heard me ask a girl out (she said yes by the way).

It got all over and school was a living hell after that. My friends stopped talking to me, and I was pretty isolated after that. High School is a lot better. People still call me a dyke, but it doesn't happen so much. I got called a dyke about 20 times a day or something along those lines in middle school... I normally didn't let it get to me, but a few times it did. Once, a kid named Scott shoved me into a wall and called me a dyke when class was over and when i went out into the hallway, someone else did the same and threw my books and everything all over the floor, and I couldn't stop crying for about half an hour... it's not important anymore though, they're just a thing of the past, I guess you could say.

My little brother told my mom, and she freaked... She yelled at me for about an hour and had me all crying... she said all kinds of things like "you don't want to ever have kids?" and I don't even remember what else... She told me no one needed to know and all kinds of things.

I guess I'm lucky though, because eventually, she... "got over it"... I guess you could say, and she says it doesn't matter to her anymore. I'd say it still bothers her though, sometimes. She took it upon herself to tell her brothers and sisters though and my dad... he said he already knew (???) and said that it didn't matter because I was his daughter... so that was good I guess.

I wouldn't take any of it back though; it only got better. Everything that happened in middle school, even though it was a living hell, just made me more prepared for anything that could happen later, and I normally go about my life not caring what people think anymore if they know I'm attracted to females. I don't hide my girlfriend, and for the most part, all of my friends and my peers at school accept me just the way I am, and if they don't that's their problem the way I see it