From 9a0f2e01a67bc606cc552c5367726f78e86ba662 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cadey Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2019 20:53:09 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] i'm horrible at following my own rules --- src/coming-out-plural.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/coming-out-plural.md b/src/coming-out-plural.md index cee779f..f7b7573 100644 --- a/src/coming-out-plural.md +++ b/src/coming-out-plural.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# On Coming Out as Plural +## On Coming Out as Plural Intro Edit: I wrote this originally as a reply, but the more I wrote, the more I felt there may be many people wondering the same thing, who may need to hear a @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ approval. Now then, here are some things to do when actually coming out: -## Approach One: Warming them Up +### Approach One: Warming them Up This is maybe more an assessment of their open mindedness, and its basically the slow and safer approach. This is the approach you want to use for close @@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ that however you want, or even segway into our second approach. Of course, if at any point before you come out you get the sense that they would not be receptive, this allows you the option to retreat before coming out. -## Approach Two: The Upfront +### Approach Two: The Upfront This approach is, if you'd pardon the language, the very much 'balls to the walls' sort of approach, unless you have preceded it with the former. This is @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ them, or include it in your introduction if you are first meeting them. Informally being just state it blatantly, off hand, in text, and let the questions come later or after. There is of course, no retreat to this. -## Approach Three: Passively Out +### Approach Three: Passively Out In a word? Be openly plural. This is again, something I feel like we've exclusively done with strangers online. Talk about your system life and tulpas @@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ could stop and pass it off as a joke or you just acting weird. But above all. Above EVERYTHING included here, in all the assessments of receptiveness, above any way you choose to approach the situation. -## BE INFORMATIVE. +### BE INFORMATIVE. Know EXACTLY what you are talking about, and how to explain your experience. It helps to know about DID so you can explain exactly why you are different from