Movie night in with my friend (who lives with her parents). Her dad did NOT like the idea of me hanging around her at all, being as he doesn't like "teh gays." Her father seems to have had plans outside the house that weekend. He saw me come over and said what I would call a begrudgingly polite hello and left. I more or less expected to be told to leave at best and I would have had he said to do so.... Happily and surprisingly, he didn't ....
I am not sure exactly why, but it appears I was allowed to hang out with her Saturday and watch chick flicks etc. Her mother was oddly supportive and this was very, very welcome as far as I was concerned. Her mom seemed to be concerned before when we hung out and I think she thought I was faking only liking men to get close to her daughter or some such BS. For some happy reason I don't understand, her mom seemed OK with this now.... She even hung out with us a little, which was a major surprise.
The biggest surprise, her mom was cool with me being a girl, well, sadly only dressed as one, but yeah ... [blush]. As you can easily imagine, I'm immensely shy about this and incredibly vulnerable. I know my friend is cool with it, but I was terrified her mom might be mean to me, etc. Instead, she was rather cool about it and said I "made a very pretty girl." I was still rather shy and reserved, but rather happy and happily surprised I got that response. I have a lot of people who are not very nice to me at all in my everyday life, as perhaps one of the largest understatements in history. I can't even be polite to most of the people I deal with, because they view that as a sign of weakness and they have pounced and will pounce on me like a pack of wolves on a three legged kitten.... I am immensely tired and worn down, especially emotionally. I sometimes just can't even be around people, because I don't even wanna try to deal with it.
Her mom just treated me like a girl and really this was pretty much all I ever wanted out of life. We watched movies, baked cookies, had pizza, etc. Really, I want so little.... It was absolutely great.