Re: Coming Out, Pathological Honesty, and Paranoia
Submitted by GCFboi on January 07 2001 22:22:40
In reply to Re: Coming Out, Pathological Honesty, and Paranoia submitted by Once a Boy on January 05 2001 16:19:11
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Overanalyzing....why, how could an obsessive-compulsive type person who majored in mathematics do such a thing as that?!? :) Yes, I agree, I was letting my fear get the better of me. I do tend to have mood swings, and I've been feeling a little down the last few days. I think I am also affected by all the media reports, as Altima pointed out in his response. They get to me sometimes. I tend to get more paranoid when I think about such things. But I am feeling better today. I appreciate your response. I should point out, that "telling all these people" is something that I used to do, when I was younger, only because I was just being immature and obsessing over all my crushes, as newly "out" gay men often do. I don't do this as much now as I used to, so perhaps I overstated it in my original post. I have gotten a teensy bit more mature about these things in the last few years! I don't usually just tell people "Oh, by the way, I like boys". No, that's not what I meant. Instead, I often find myself making innocent remarks like "he's cute" when I see a guy I like. But I know that I have enough tact not to make those kind of comments in inappropriate situations! I was also concerned with the highly gossipy nature of the community where I live, but there isn't really anything I can do about that, and it's probably not a big deal anyway. If people were going to be saying hurtful things about me behind my back, it would have happened a long time ago. I suppose the reason that I haven't made "enemies", so to speak, is that people just think that I am a nice guy (which I am!--Sorry, don't mean to toot my own horn!) |
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