Welcome to Questions from the Closet, I'm Ben Shalatti.

And I'm Charlie Bird.

Each episode, we discuss a question we commonly get asked as LGBTQ Boss Slatterday Saints.

We're not trying to answer this question or come to consensus, but simply sharing our

perspectives.

Today's question is, how does coming out affect my parents?

Ben and I are not terribly diverse and we share many opinions and life experiences.

For example, both of our moms have experience with dementia.

However, there are some pretty big differences.

For example, my mom has dementia and your mom works with dementia patients, which is lovely.

I like said that as a joke, but then it actually turned out to be a nice similar difference.

And I don't feel like I'm like poking fun at my mom's terrible disease.

No, it's actually like really beautiful because my mom asked about your mom often.

Well, I mean, she works at a, like a long-term care facility and she was the director of nursing

for many years.

She stepped down and now she has more hands-on role again because she likes it more.

But she's always, she just has a ton of empathy for people and they have a dementia unit.

And she's always telling me like the funniest stories of other people there and like kind

of the trouble they get into.

And she's always like every time I talk to her, she's almost every time she asks about

your mom.

Oh, it's something nice.

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