Coming Out And This Weird Feeling

[luminum]

When I did it, i felt this energy welling up inside of me that expressed itself as a clicking of my heels and a fist pumping in the air down the school hallway after class.

Glad to hear that your coming out went well. Embrace the tingle and always remember the feeling.

 

[Philia]

I don't know about a tingling feeling, but I remember feeling loose and not so uptight. As if a weight was lifted. It still seems awkward to me to vocally express my opinion on guy's appearances too.

Anyway, congratulations on coming out to someone.

 

[G-Lexington]

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the "tingle" you're feeling is the exhiliration you feel in being free to be who you are.

Kicks ass, don't it?

Lex

 

[chobbs]

Weird, I came out yesterday to a really good friend, and while I was saying the words, "I'm pretty sure I'm gay dude" I felt a pressure in my brain that I'd never felt before. It was like my brain was squeezing itself.

Anyways, pretty much as soon as he said, "dude, that's whatever, I don't care, and that's really cool that you were able to tell me" it went away, and my head felt really light. It was like drugs.

 

[StlKj]

Congratulations, seymour and chobbs!

 

[Lalada]

That feeling is quite okay in some instances, it's like a mixture of relief, excitement, and finding sanctuary all in one. It's nice when it leaves you, like a weight's been lifted. And indeed, every time you let the world know who you are, or just one small part of the world, it is a weight being lifted, the weight that was not our own but placed on us growing up and from our environment.

Hope that helps, I was just remembering what that feeling was like for me.

 

[RicanDAB]

Congrats on your coming out. What you experienced is very normal. Your revelation becomes very surreal after the fact, perhaps because you have thought about that moment for so long and for it to actually be real now is mind-blowing. It's a pretty nice feeling when you think about it.

Hope it won't be the last time

 

[Críostóir]

It's freedom. It's the release of the tension you've been carrying ever since you started to realize you were different; it just builds until you tell someone.

Congratulations!

 

[NotDarkYet]

I'm only really out to friends at the moment, and luckily they're all pretty liberal-minded people who I never thought would have a problem with my sexuality. I told some of them I was bi a while ago anyway so it probably wasn't even much of a surprise to them. So I haven't really had that free feeling from coming out yet. I did have it a bit when I first fully came out to myself though.

 

[idunoo]

this goes back a while I dont know if this ia really yougn age to coming out of the closet but when iwas was openly with my sexuality i think i was 14...or somethign around that and i stil lremember how akward it was when a girl ask "hey do you have boyfriend yet? or "which of the guys you like" and soemtiem i dunno becuase i'm still nto sure if i'm gay..until now i am nto sure. and then yeah it stil lfeel weird

 

[Críostóir]

idunoo, go with the feelings you have toward each individual person, and let the identity develop from there. People always try to figure out if they're "gay or straight" (or bi, which is just another category) BEFORE deciding how they feel about individuals, which to my mind is backwards.