yesterday, with some much needed help and encouragement from a user on nnia.space, I was able to come out to my partner. i told him pretty much everything, about how i feel transage and that i feel attraction towards minors. i thought for sure that it was a secret i would carry to the grave. i thought if anyone ever found out they would hate me. but apparently i’m the luckiest boy alive, because now my boyfriend knows i’m a MAP, and he still loves me. he was really understanding, kind, and accepting.

ever since then, all i can think about is how much this feels like i’m living in some kind of dream. i can just… be myself? i don’t know how to do that, really.

but for the first time in my life, i feel like there’s hope for us, there are people who can understand that we’re an oppressed minority, and not just irrationally hate us. there may be a future where MAPs and other paras get to live their lives being, at least, tolerated, rather than reviled. i don’t know if i’ll ever live to see that day, but i hope so, and i am going to try to do my part to make that day a reality.

much love and para solidarity!