Straight people are telling the world how their families found out about their sexuality and it's brilliant

Reddit users have put an interesting twist on 'coming out' stories.

One of them, Deplete1 asked the following question:

Straight people, how did your friends and family find out?

The social network's users were quick to share their heterosexual discovery stories.

Warning: some of these are incredibly awkward.

1.

When I was a teenager I had a girlfriend, who I would routinely take into my room and have sex with. We tried to be quiet but of course I was super paranoid about it. My parents never said anything about it.

Then one day my best guy friend came over and we were playing video games in my room. It was a fighting game with plenty of male grunting. After my friend left, my dad sat me down and asked me if I was having gay sex.

I had to tell him that the girl that was always coming over was my girlfriend, and I was having sex with her. And I was not, in fact, having gay sex with my best friend. It was like the birds and the bees talk, but in reverse.

It was the most bizarre conversation I’ve ever had to this day.

-mostlyemptyspace

2.

My mom was telling everyone when I was in high school that I was gay. She was later informed by one of the nice young ladies from school I was definitely not gay. Sorry Mom.

-dxm31

3.

When I was about 17, my mom heard what I was doing upstairs and walked in on me [with a] a girl from up the street. From that point on, I suspect she knew I was straight. She treated me exactly the same as she always had. We never talked about it. When I told her I was marrying a woman I'd fallen in love with, she came to the wedding and gave us a nice gift. A very good person, my mom.

-Banned_From_Subs

4.

Dad was convinced I was gay because my best friends were girls, but I kept dating women. He finally had to accept that I was a little arty

-criostoirsullivan

5.

They found my internet history.

-reebyup

6.

 I'm 34 now, straight, married with two kids. But when I was younger I must have given off a "gay vibe" because I can't even count the amount of times people assumed I was or might be. My parents also questioned it at one point. I figure it's because I have a baby face and I was shy growing up so I was afraid to talk to girls. Who knows.

I wouldn't worry about it man. Who gives a f**k.

-HeyManHowAreYa

7.

The pregnancy raised some suspicions.

-Smiling_Mister_J

8.

They found out when I was 24 and got married to a man.

From middle school all through high school my dad and one of my aunts were obsessed with the fact that I was a lesbian. And they would tell everyone. My dad loved to egg it on, but my aunt hated it and would yell and scream and tell me I was confused. Even though I was straight.

Well, I moved across the country and ended up getting engaged to a guy (not the one I married). But, I sent them pictures and they thought it was all some big cover-up and I was marrying my best gal friend. Well, I did eventually get married to a man at 24 and I guess they finally accepted that I wasn't a lesbian. But, then after my grandma passed away, my grandpa came out of the closet and pissed everyone off again for a while...

-FrankieAK

9.

When I was in 8th grade I got mono, a week or so after one of my good (male) friends. My dad made a joke along the lines of "this is what you get for kissing Steve" and I was mortified that he thought I was gay. Being a supremely awkward 14 year old who was recently diagnosed with a contagious disease, getting a girlfriend to prove to him I wasn't gay wasn't really an option, so my solution was to purposefully let him catch me watching porn the very next day. SO awkward. Not worth it. And originally he was totally joking, I was just too insecure to get the joke.

-DrSmotPoker

H/T Reddit

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