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Remembering my "coming out" call back home to my parents at 20 being about my lack of desire to have children rather than my gender/sexuality. Ahahaha 
If I'm ever in a place where I'm more confident in my abilities to provide I wouldn't be opposed to considering adoption, but I suppose I've always held onto this feeling of being more of a teacher than a parent... I don't think that says it as accurately as possible but just... I suppose I've experienced the opposite of what is referred to in the original post where it's felt "obvious" to me that I don't want to create life so much as seemed to be expected of me, and additionally that the strongest family connections I had weren't necessarily by blood anyway!

If I'm ever in a place where I'm more confident in my abilities to provide I wouldn't be opposed to considering adoption, but I suppose I've always held onto this feeling of being more of a teacher than a parent... I don't think that says it as accurately as possible but just... I suppose I've experienced the opposite of what is referred to in the original post where it's felt "obvious" to me that I don't want to create life so much as seemed to be expected of me, and additionally that the strongest family connections I had weren't necessarily by blood anyway!
