I’m a genius. I don’t need you to acknowledge it because it is true. You can accept my statement as truth because I have never lied to you, so we are good

Here’s the thing- as a genius I know that telling kids that gay people exist when said children are very small will not harm them. Actually, I was a small child when my parents informed me that gay people exist and it did hurt me, so i had better clarify my point. My father gave me a significant fear of accidentally becoming gay because of my sinful tendency to like anyone I met. As I aged into my teenage years my father drilled into my head that looking at the swimsuit section and lingerie section of the Ames and Sears catalog would make me like sex so much that I would be gangraped by gay men who could smell my sexual desire, and make me hunger so much for sex that I would welcome gay sex because I would take any sex I could get if women would not be attracted to me. Yes, in this way I was hurt by learning about gay people

This is why this genius has trouble making friends with men

So when my kids came along I decided to teach them at very young ages to love everyone and accept gay people as normal. We would talk about men or women who lived each other as if they were normal people who lived in normal houses doing normal things, and this was normal because these people are pretty normal. This worked so well that my children welcomed gay and transgendered classmates into their friend groups with open arms even though they could not fathom a mind that worked that way. Many conversations were had throughout my children’s school years about how they couldn’t see why this girl or boy didn’t like the opposite genders or didn’t accept themselves as the gender they had on their birth certificates, but my children also stood up against bullies who insisted that these LGBTQ kids conform to the cultural standard of the bullies’ churches.

To those who feared my normalization of “gay lifestyles” would tend to “make my kids gay” my children are adults now, and heterosexual in their sexual partner preference so I guess teaching them kindness to gay folks didn’t presuppose them to “become gay”. They still welcome nonconformists into their friend groups, but my kids tend yo be conformists as a rule

I’m gratified to see that my children have friends of many types, and are learning to be happy in their skins. In other news I’m trying to find friends who can accept a genius like me. Maybe I can learn from my kids to enjoy company