acceptance and coming out to my dad
I’m 19F and have only very recently accepted that I’m Bisexual and with a strong preference for girls. I’ve always been prudish when it came to guys, and even though a lot of my close friends are gay/transgender, I’ve always referred to myself as the straight ally or jokingly as bicurious
I know my friends will be accepting and probably could already tell, but I’m really scared about coming out to my dad. In his only daughter and he’s one of my favourite people.
He’s very progressive, and one of my uncles is also gay and married to a man, who he accepts. However he has specific PTSD relating to bisexuality - long story short my mother had an affair and left him for a woman when I was a kid before they divorced. They have complete no contact and there’s a ban against her name in his house. I’m really scared if I come out to him he will see me like my mother and reject me or he’ll just pretend I never told him just like how he pretends my mother doesn’t exist
How can I come out to him so that it doesn’t make him see me differently and like her? Is that possible?