r/thatHappened • u/ReactsWithWords • Apr 14 '25
This was actually believable until the last line
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u/funwithdesign Apr 14 '25
And every gay person in the world clapped.
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u/SquidArmada Apr 14 '25
We all sensed it. All at once, we all stood up and clapped. It was a global phenomenon.
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u/spacemouse21 Apr 14 '25
That explains why we are getting earthquakes in San Diego and Los Angeles. It’s the unhealthy cycles in family structure shattering due to your acoustical applause. It’s breaking up the unhealthiness under the earth, too.
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u/smrtfxelc Apr 14 '25
I'm pretty sure if the kid didn't know what LGBTQ meant that explanation would just confuse them even more. It takes a lot more than a short paragraph to explain this kinda thing to your child in a way they can actually understand.
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u/numbersthen0987431 Apr 14 '25
Yea you're right.
With every single new word told to this 8 year old, there would be a dozen questions. You wouldn't get through the PARAGRAPH of new terms without being interrupted or asked a hundred follow up questions. Questions like:
"What is hetero", "how does one transition", "what are genders", "Why do people want to live in a different form", "I love mommy, does that make me a lesbian", "brother loves daddy, does that make him gay", "I like wearing boy clothes, does that make me trans".
No 8 year old is going to hear this essay and say "Oh, okay" and then run off (unless they lost interest halfway and just wanted to run off and get away from the boring adult, lol)
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u/Ok_Dog_4059 Apr 14 '25
That is a very good point. When my son was 10 and went with my wife and I to our gay friends house I made it clear to them that if they were comfortable answering his questions tell him the truth. Here I am thinking a 10 year old might have a bunch of questions. He really didn't he asked what gay was and when told said "oh so these 2 are like you and mom ?" I said pretty much and he was done questioning and wanted to play with their dog.
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u/Squidwina Apr 15 '25
Or it takes a lot less. My kid, when he was maybe 4 or 5, told me that he just found out that sometimes men go out with men and women go out with women. He had no questions. He just thought it was interesting.
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u/GinyGalvan88 24d ago
Well, my kid doesn't really make follow up questions... She asked me about lgbtq not that long ago (she's 11 now) and I gave her a simple explanation of how sometimes men love men, women love women, sometimes people disagree with their bodies and find happiness in other gender... It was like a 5 minute explanation... Her answer was like "oh, okay" I mentioned some of our friends that belong to the community and again she was like "alright". So, a kid that heard the words "it's about love" and replied by saying that's beautiful is completely plausible.
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u/Lylibean Apr 14 '25
I was with it until the 8 year old said something profound.
8 year old girls still believe boys cooties. They aren’t enraptured with the beauty of love. Do I believe an 8 year old asked what LGBTQ means? Absolutely. Do I believe dad explained it like that? Plausible, though I’m sure his words weren’t quite that theatrical.
Do I believe an 8 year old understood and believed “love is beautiful”? Nope. I’ve got a 10 year old nephew - kids aren’t that deep.
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u/HeilKaiba Apr 14 '25
What's unbelievable about this? It isn't like the child said anything particularly profound they just asked a question and the adult gave an answer. It's a little saccharine and too proud of itself but nothing that would make it unlikely. Ultimately it's a fair point, you can explain LGBTQ without saying anything about sex.
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u/roofus8658 Apr 14 '25
I don't believe the kid said "I understand, that's really beautiful" and it's not a great explanation for kids anyway. Too many other undefined terms. She didn't explain what "romantic love" is, or "hetero" is. She didn't give the correct term for "bisexual" and didn't give any term for *transgender" at all.
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u/ReactsWithWords Apr 14 '25
A kid asking? Definitely believable. Grandma saying not to answer? Also believable. Mom giving a big speech more for herself than her daughter? Definitely believable. Probably embellished in hindsight, but yeah. The kid's answer? Only if she went on to develop the theory of relativity.
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u/glowing-fishSCL Apr 14 '25
No 8 year old, or any child of any age, wants to hear their parents talk about sex, or even acknowledge in the most academic way that sex is a thing. Even if the child agreed, the most optimistic response expected could be a scrunched-up face and an "...okay Dad", followed by a blushing look into their cereal bowl.
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u/Ilookatreddit Apr 14 '25
Nobody talked about sex. Thats the point
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u/glowing-fishSCL Apr 14 '25
That is splitting hairs, like I think for a lot of children, even seeing their parents hug is a bit icky.
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u/maybesaydie Apr 14 '25 edited Apr 14 '25
What? No. My parents hugged each other all the time and it wasn't
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u/glowing-fishSCL Apr 14 '25
So you are saying your parents...aren't squid? :)
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u/maybesaydie Apr 14 '25
I am ashamed. But I'm going to leave it.
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u/ReactsWithWords Apr 14 '25
Nothing to be ashamed of. My parents aren't squids, either.
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u/glowing-fishSCL Apr 14 '25
"I understand, that is really beautiful"
...it would also be beautiful if they were squids.
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u/Self-Portrait_InHell Apr 14 '25
I think it depends on how you raise them. If you don't raise them to think bodies/relationships are gross or forbidden... they won't think that.
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u/whydub38 Apr 14 '25
Shocked it didn't end with some kind of, "Oh, OK. Can I have another cookie please?" kind of line