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Before I came here, I was like, I was really scared of like all this LGBT stuff, I guess.

Like I've never seen gay people in flesh in India guess like I've never seen a gay people in flesh in

India like I've never met one or people who were like openly gay so coming here and meeting

people I remember like suddenly like walking down the road and like realizing tears started like

flowing down my cheeks and I was like like, oh shit, I'm gay.

This is how to.

I'm Charles Duhigg.

Each week, we help listeners work through a problem.

And this week, our listener is struggling with something we've all experienced some degree.

How to get your parents to accept you.

I'm Hema. I'm a biomedical researcher at Ohio State, and I'm gay.

Hema didn't fully admit to herself that she was gay until just a few years ago, in her mid-20s,

after she moved from India to the U.S.

Initially, it was like, I didn't want to, like, be gay, so it was, like, six months of struggle

of trying to be straight, but that never works out.

And then I was, like, slowly starting to accept myself, finding, finding out people out there,

finding out stories.

One of the big issues for Hema is that even though being a lesbian is something she's embraced,

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