Podcast #047: I'm Coming Out - The Barefoot Backpacker

Welcome to Episode 47 of my “Travel Tales From Beyond The Brochure” podcast.

This month has included Pronoun Day, Coming Out Day, and Asexual Awareness Week, amongst other things. It’s been a big month for self-awareness. Following on from my previous episode on ‘Coming Out’ to yourself with neurodiversity, this episode is on ‘Coming Out’ to yourself with a non-standard sexual or gender identity. I also go into some of the mental health concerns, and talk about how very often coming out to yourself makes you realise the clues had been there for years, it was just a case of recognising them for what they were.

Topics discussed include:

What I did last weekend (it involved beer and broken planes)
‘Coming Out’ to myself as Asexual
Little boxes, little boxes …
‘Coming Out’ to myself as Demiboy Non-Binary
Cultural Appropriation and being ‘enough’
How having a good community around you helps
The benefits of a good pronoun
Compulsive Heterosexuality is still a sexuality
The overlap between sexuality and mental health issues
‘Coming Out’ to others as Asexual, compared with being Lesbian and Religious
I don’t want to make a scene about it all
‘The Clues Were There And I Really Should Have Known’
I’m really not a typical occupant of a male body
Would it have made any difference had I realised earlier?

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