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Originally Posted by Beebo Brink  That's a common issue I've faced in RL about the timing of coming out. I'm not timid about it, but it gets tiresome to have that aspect of myself loom larger than anything else in people's minds. It's not so much an issue in SL because I'm even more obviously queer inworld and you have to be seriously naive to miss it, and the SL population is more jaded.
Similarly, I would have expected that being deaf was less of an issue in SL, but if that's not the case, then I think you're fully justified in considering that to be RL information that need only be shared on a need-to-know basis. And you decide who needs to know. |
Thank you, Beebo! Yes! It gets tiresome and then loom larger than anything else. And I completely didn't think this would such an issue. I do know 3 deaf/hoh who joined
SL and quit. Part of the reason was they felt
SL was really a hearing place, but they are in different situations and also had other problems with
SL.
Thanks.
ETA: I'm sure a lot of this is a problem I am creating. I know I am too earnest, tend to include more details in the hopes the answer is more clear or complete, and worry too much about the other person's understanding. I need more cool.
