My Best Friend's Reaction

[spacemanBEN]

Well, I hate to be "that person" writing yet another thread about an attempt to tell a friend, but I'm doing it anyways. Just tonight, I came out to my best friend about infantilism. First, a little background info. We've only been friends for about a year now, but he is seriously the nicest guy. We kind of connected over music, and that remains one of the main parts of our friendship. I've come to love him a great deal (as a friend for clarification!) and feel like I can trust him with anything.

Hence my decision to tell him. Man, it was a little awkward, though not due to him, simply due to this being an embarrassing subject for me. I didn't really plan to tell him however I have been thinking about it for at least a couple months. Over the course of the evening I kind of hinted about it just to gauge his potential reaction. He said that nothing I could tell him could change our friendship, and so at the end of the night, I just pretty much told him straight up. I couldn't even look him in the eye and I was kind of shaking.

His reaction was pretty much as good as I could have hoped for. No, he didn't tell me that he loves diapers too (that only happens on Deeker), but he did say that he didn't care about this at all and that indeed did not change the way he looks at me at all. Also, he said that he really appreciated my honesty which makes me feel as though telling him might have been a good decision. I promptly asked him if he thought this was weird and (though I'm sure he did find it more than a little weird), he said he found it more interesting than anything.

Overall, I feel good about telling him. Now I have no secrets to keep from him (though I don't think it will come up in conversation too much!) and our friendship now has the potential to be that much deeper. However, I do not plan on telling any of my other friends for a long time, because I can't expect a reaction this good from most of them. In any case, I feel so lucky to have such a great friend.

[cylenrii]

well congratulations =D

its not evreyday you find a freind as understanding as that im really glad you were lucky enought to tell him and have him understand....if only there were more people like him in this world

[Jon93]

congrats on telling your friend.

Also, glad to hear he reacted ok with it. My friends that know, didn't care either so people must really not care what you do in your spare time as long as you dont go around parading the fact that your an infantilist.

[FSD]

Good for you!!! My friends I dont think are that undestanding but I probly wont have the guts to find out

[Thunder]

Congratulations!

[wetty]

Its really great that you have a good friend that you can trust like that :]
And good on you for working up the courage

x

[lilgrowlie]

Well done, both for having the courage and getting such an excellent reaction!

[xdanqx]

Congrats!
Ditto to what lilgrowlie said!`

[Jabo]

Originally Posted by Jon93

congrats on telling your friend.

Also, glad to hear he reacted ok with it. My friends that know, didn't care either so people must really not care what you do in your spare time as long as you dont go around parading the fact that your an infantilist.

Congrats!

Like Jon said, it seems like a lot of people don't really care, which is very good. Both my Mom and my roommate know, and they both don't really care much. They'd probably start to be bothered by it if I was parading the fact in front of them, but I don't.

[satyrical]

Glad that worked out for you so well.