Moms on their kid’s coming out (2)

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"He's a good boy, quiet, polite, just like a girl", Mrs. Xia from Zhengzhou, Henan province said of her son.

Her son disclosed his sexual orientation when he was a junior college student.

"One day out of the blue he came to me and said he wanted to tell me a secret. He said he had no feeling for girls, and I was like, half-jokingly, ‘You mean you're gay'? And he nodded. And that was it. I forced myself to appear calm because I was afraid I'd give him pressure. He showed me all the articles and video clips on homosexuality he had saved in his computer, while I was having all these thoughts swirling in my head, ‘what's he going to do', ‘how he's going to be treated by everybody else.'"

She said she couldn't sleep that night with tears running down and her thinking about his son's future.

The next day Mrs. Xia walked with her son to the woods beside their neighborhood and they talked there for the whole afternoon.

"There was no whining or crying, I had to accept it, and there was no good giving a hard time to either of us," she said.