I can understand a parent's fear for their children and can even understand my own mother's fear for me once she found out I was queer. But it was still a very painful experience to watch her kind of go through all her priests and friends to figure out if I was really going to hell or not and then to figure out how to help me if I was. To this day, I don't doubt that had the priest told her I was going to hell, she would have done everything in her power to change me to save me from that. Which I would have understood would have been something she would have done with what she believed would be my best interest at heart. But had she done that, I would have left home and never looked back.

I was lucky that my mom ran into the right people and that she was never 100% into the Catholic Church. But even so, she has asked me to not tell my aunts that I'm queer. She phrases it as for my well being but we both know it's so she can avoid the incoming fights. Because I will 100% throw hands and as my mother, she will feel the need to help me lol