Chapter 6, p. 54-60, Eng

This connected to parts of my past, that I really wish it hadn't. The fact the author understands this, the fact the comments are loaded with people who understand this, and that I know this first hand is upsetting. I know we talk about how coming out has gotten easier, but there continues to be and likely always will be those that go through the nightmare of one or both parents rejecting them.

BeansGreens

Awwww poor father that must have hurt 😢

Love the update ♥️

Emily

I got totally lost for a hot sec... Thanks comment section for catching my dumb brain back up to get with the program. This story both lifts and breaks my heart!

Oooooh that’s what the scars in his ears was about. Wow. Not what I expected at all. Then again I don’t know what I expected. Lol. Something less benign than getting piercings. I feel for that entire family. They don’t seem to have worked it out and agreed to disagree.

Megan Pawlak Arts

I have this bad feeling like his dad is dead or something and they wasted most of his remaining time being angry. I hope this is not the case though. Heartbreaking.

Andrea Acken

My father reacted badly when I came out. He was very upset. My mother, who’s is fierce, told him that he had one day. One day to change his attitude, and hug his daughter with all his heart, or she would take me and my little sister and walk away. Because the most basic duty of a parent is to make their child safe and when my father failed to support me he became someone I was not safe with emotionally. And she would not allow her daughter to live with someone who was unsafe. They spent that day talking and crying and researching. Some people will this this is harsh or a betrayal of their relationship. However she had faith in him. She saved me, and him. He hugged me. Daddy got it, and never looked back, and has supported me ever since.

Gracie Bou

Feeling good with yourself and accepting who you are as a whole inclusing your limits and defaults is really the work of a lifetime.

Minimouette

Poor max, he was young and it's the worst time emotionally for a person growing up. I went to the dark side too in those years and came back out the other side after years of learning to accept myself once I was an adult. It's amazing how deep the dark can pull you in and I love max all the more for pulling himself to the surface

TortiTab

I see the growth and passage of time in this dream sequence. So much anger in the last one. 🖤 It's amazing that he's gone through so much and still turned out to have a cheerful personality.

Thank you for doing this! There is not enough recognition that pain is not a line but a cycle. You hurt and someone else hurts with you. Sometimes, that other person hurting hurts you back. That’s never okay, but understanding the other side can help us understand each other. Anyways, I dunno why, I felt your beautiful soul through this art work.

Toby Cruz

Awwww. I hope they reconciled at some point. Also: I’d never have though Max had a black phase.

Megan Pawlak Arts

The thing is that it didn't turn upside down. A few assumptions about the future changed. That's why I have little pity for homophobic parents. Mine used to be mildly homophobic, like my dad blamed my mom's depression on my coming-out and stuff. So as a teenager I had to be harsh and unforgiving towards them to show them their place. I felt like it was either me or them. I regret nothing. Now when I'm approaching my 30s, my parents have learnt not to be homophobic.