26/04/2026
AITA if I don't tell my gay son about this part of my past?
Hi everyone, I'm new to reddit so I don't know if I'm doing this right. I am a 53 year old dad to 3 kids including a wondeful son that is 16. For the sake of anonymity I will call him Ethan here.
I will also try to keep it as short as possible. Basically my son is 16 and he came out a few days ago. I reacted very badly.
I cried and basically locked myself in my room for a day straight. BUT not because he is gay. I do not care about his homosexuality by itself.
I love him so much. And I've always been very supportive of gay people I think, even in the 90s when it was not as accepted as it is now. I never cared about it.
I even had a gay brother who was 2 years younger than me. And my breakdown to my son's coming out happened because of what happened to him. He was gay.
My favorite person in the world, my best friend, my confident. A bit scrawny lol but he had a heart of gold. Genuinely the kindest person on earth.
But some people decided him being gay was enough to hurt him. 3 guys attacking my baby brother because he...
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