So my mom tried to get me to come 'out of the closet...'

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Tarlane said:
Hm. My family seems very skilled at the uncomfortable, so I don't know just what one to pick.

When I was in junior high my parents had grown concerned that I was shy. I tried to explain the difference between shy and unsociable, I wasn't embarrassed to talk to people I just generally didn't like most people so I avoided it. But it was still decided that they should help me get over this shyness by learning to ballroom dance. Meant being near someone, being social and maybe learning a skill.

Got to the church where they held the weekly dance and when I walked in it was all women. Turns out it was a lesbian church and I had it explained to me that they thought that would be better since that would effectively be a no pressure situation having no one I needed to try and impress.
Glorious, truly an artful display of your parents trolling you like no other. Honestly, that would need to have been done on purpose, there is no way any human would do that without trying to be awkward.
 

Zak Frost

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Dango said:
Isn't this thread about awkward conversations with parents?

... and what are you implying?
But the title is "So my mom tried to get me to come 'out of the closet...'".

And I think you have inferred exactly what I was implying.

Radoh said:
Asexuality actually means that you have no sex organs and reproduce the a cloud of spores or mitosis.
Non-sexuality is what I believe you are looking for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual
I believe Asexual Reproduction is what you are looking for, as you are implying that there is reproduction happening when you refer to fungi, asexuality simply means "lack of sexuality", and since humans always talk about themselves, we can assume in this context it doesn't actually mean "lack of sexual organs", such as in amoeba, rather, your feelings towards sex.

As far as I can tell, asexuality and non-sexuality mean the same thing, just different languages' prefixes(lack of sexuality|no sexuality).
 

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funny story, actually...
my mom mistook friendship for love and suspected me and my best friend to be in a gay relationship.
when in actuality we were even rivals in that regard... we had a crush on the same girl. :D
 

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Canid117 said:
sheic99 said:
I think this happens to a lot of people. I know my mom did it too me. It's still fairly funny though.
I think I remember you making a thread about that which I found very entertaining.
I wish I could remember that. There needs to be an easy way to finding threads you created.
 

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Zak Frost said:
Radoh said:
Asexuality actually means that you have no sex organs and reproduce the a cloud of spores or mitosis.
Non-sexuality is what I believe you are looking for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asexual
I believe Asexual Reproduction is what you are looking for, as you are implying that there is reproduction happening when you refer to fungi, asexuality simply means "lack of sexuality", and since humans always talk about themselves, we can assume in this context it doesn't actually mean "lack of sexual organs", such as in amoeba, rather, your feelings towards sex.

As far as I can tell, asexuality and non-sexuality mean the same thing, just different languages' prefixes(lack of sexuality|no sexuality).
I had no idea that all this time I was simply arguing semantics. I'm actually kind of sad now. I suppose I was just holding too strictly to the original meaning of the word.
 

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1st and 2nd posts are funny xD

There was a time when my mom accused me of doing drugs because when i went playing basketball i went back home with red eyes, I have allergies and my eyes are also sensitive to wind.
 

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I suppose an awkward moment would be finding my mother's dildo. Thankfully she chose not to talk about it.

The worst part was that I touched it before I realized what it was.
I had the unfortunate experience of finding my GRANDMOTHER'S dildo (wooden no less) when we were gathering her posessions after she passed away.
 

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My mum is fine with gays but thinks that the flamboyant types should be shot.. That pretty much sums up her viewpoint..
Although my dad is really modern so he would be fine with it.

OT: I once had a *ahem* "spillage" in my bed and my mum started giving me a talk about wet dreams before i made something up to get out of it.
 

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sheic99 said:
Canid117 said:
sheic99 said:
I think this happens to a lot of people. I know my mom did it too me. It's still fairly funny though.
I think I remember you making a thread about that which I found very entertaining.
I wish I could remember that. There needs to be an easy way to finding threads you created.
A "MyThreads" tab or something? That would be useful.
 

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I can honestly say that, to my knowledge, neither of my parents have ever thought that I may be gay (for what it's worth, I'm not, making them bang on the money) and I don't remember ever actually having an awkward conversation with them either.

That said, I imagine that telling me that I wasn't planned (I asked, was curious) may have been awkward for them, though I've no idea why it should be, I'm here regardless so it's a winner for me either way :)

EDIT: I'm actually a little sad that I've never got to experience some of things that've already been posted (Mum bringing in porn magazines, random homophobia and so on). I mean, I can appreciate that I'm very lucky to have been raised by fairly chilled parents who've never embarassed me and let me make my own decisions (and mistakes), I jusr feel like I might've missed out on something to look back on and laugh at in later years. Hum.
 

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BioHazardMan said:
Telling my bible thumper dad I'm atheist...Yeah.
Congratulations, you successfully survived brainwash. Enjoy looking at life in a reasonable way.
 

WolfThomas

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I had one of those a few weeks ago. My mum "is there a real reason your friend keeps staying the night here?".

FFS mum, he lives more than an hours drive away, he's crashed the night here TWICE, maybe threetimes if you count when there was five of us playing Nazi Zombies. The first time because we'd been out to the clubs and the second time was so we could leave early to go hunting.

In my defense sleeping in the same bed is a little strange out of context, but we slept head to toe because it was easier than setting something else up.

Gorramnit I'm not gay! (Obligatory not that there's anything wrong with that) Worse bit is I told Dad and his new wife about it, instead of laughing I had a twenty minute talk about how it was okay. Just because I've never brought a girlfriend home to met them, doesn't mean I don't do or try to do my fair share of ruttin'.

Could be worse though, one time my sister's boyfriend went camping with some (male) friends, his mother told him to be safe and gave him a packet of condoms.

Dragonclaw said:
I had the unfortunate experience of finding my GRANDMOTHER'S dildo (wooden no less) when we were gathering her posessions after she passed away.
My friend found a strap-on dildo is his parents bedroom. The kicker is we don't know which parent uses it, so either his father's impotent or fan of pegging.
 

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I don't recall having an awkward conversation with just my parents. Either that, or the conversations that most people would consider awkward my mom tends to have with me and/or my 3 siblings happens almost daily.

One conversation that was pretty awkward was when my mom asked my girlfriend (this was about 3 years ago) if she was a virgin. Just nonchalantly, as her (my now ex-gf) and I were eating spaghetti, my mom comes over and sits down, and starts a conversation with that.

I'm pretty sure my mom doesn't know what awkward is, so she has no problem asking whether or not my girlfriend is a virgin, whether or not we've had sex, or asking the same questions to my sister. In front of her boyfriend. And to her boyfriend. Yeah. That dinner got kinda awkward.
 

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SL33TBL1ND said:
Jonluw said:
Uncreation said:
Jonluw said:
Well, I had a great (rolls eyes) one today.

Edit: Oh yeah, and my mom has several times jokingly told me that she got me in order to get out of military service.
Is military service in Norway compulsory for women? :|
Yes. Though, you can refuse, and instead have to do social service.

Or, well, it's a bit complicated now. A while back, almost all people had to do military sevice; but these days the military doesn't want you if you have a small injury.
Why on Earth does Norway of all places have compulsory military service? I can't think of anybody who'd want to attack you guys.
Are you kidding?! Space Norwegians are the greatest threat to world peace since the space Russians!
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/unskippable/2598-Vanquish-Part-2

OT: My dad telling me he thought I had aspergers on my 18th birthday.
 

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Canid117 said:
sheic99 said:
Canid117 said:
sheic99 said:
I think this happens to a lot of people. I know my mom did it too me. It's still fairly funny though.
I think I remember you making a thread about that which I found very entertaining.
I wish I could remember that. There needs to be an easy way to finding threads you created.
A "MyThreads" tab or something? That would be useful.
I'm gonna put that up in the tech and see if Virgil could do that.
 

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WolfThomas said:
Could be worse though, one time my sister's boyfriend went camping with some (male) friends, his mother told him to be safe and gave him a packet of condoms.
ive got to remember that next time my brother goes camping with all male friends. it will be hilarious.