My favorite part of both Simon VS. The Homosapians Agenda and Love, Simon is when Simon is explaining to Leah why he came out to Abby first. It's hard to realize something about you is different than what everyone you know expected and then try to tell them that. I knew I liked girls by the time I was 11, but despite having a family and community I knew would be supportive, I didn't explicitly come out to anyone until I was 14, and even then that was just someone I'd been hanging out with at a three day long theater camp and haven't seen since. Whenever I see coming out posts or writings etc it's always the queer person coming out to family or someone they've known since they were little first and I know for a lot, maybe even most people that's how it is, but I always felt bad about officially coming out to barely an acquaintance before my parents (even if they knew loooong before I told them). Even now, at almost 17, I'm so much more comfortable discussing it with people who are new to my life. I was homeschooled for the majority of my life and started public school just this year; as opposed to when I told the friends and mothers in my homeschool group who I'd known since I was six onwards, I showed up at school on the first day wearing three rainbow pins on my jacket. I sat with the kids with dyed hair and fishnet stockings, and everyone got it. And I was fine with that. I wasn't altering who I was in these people's minds. And I love that I had to opportunity to rewrite myself as who I really am. No Christian-teacher-moms second guessing and asking me about boyfriends and when I'm going to grow out my hair required.