This one. You don't owe people an explanation of your life. If that confuses them, it's their job to deal with their confusion, not yours.
It took me a while to learn to just say "I don't have a father" if people asked me about my parents, rather than getting into a much more complicated explanation. But socially, that's true, and "socially" is generally all that's relevant when it comes to family. So-called biological relationships usually seem to get used as a tool by people who want to tell you that you aren't real. Why give them the weapon?
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Date: 2011-02-05 07:49 pm (UTC)It took me a while to learn to just say "I don't have a father" if people asked me about my parents, rather than getting into a much more complicated explanation. But socially, that's true, and "socially" is generally all that's relevant when it comes to family. So-called biological relationships usually seem to get used as a tool by people who want to tell you that you aren't real. Why give them the weapon?