When did you figure out you were non-binary? How did your family react?

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

Only a few years ago, and it was a direct result of spending time on tumblr and being able to experiment with my pronouns. Being able to test the waters, and test how it felt to be call by different pronouns, was a big deal–so please, let people figure things out and go through ‘phases’. self-discovery is very much an extended process.

My family has always been very absent; they don’t much care either way. I haven’t experienced any backlash for telling them, but neither have they made an effort to understand the significance of my identity and how it affects my experience. It was the same way when I figured out I was bi/pansexual and autistic. There was simply a lack of interest, which is of course a lonely way to grow up.