Comment on Telling my parents about boyxboy pairings by Schplitzkriegs

"It goes earlier than this. Sometime last year, my mom was like "I hope you're not drawing gay cartoons!"

What the hell...?

On a more serious note, this problem has less to do with Hetalia and more to do with your parents being incredibly overprotective. Open communication between parents and children is healthy, vital even, but so are boundaries and, to an extent, having secrets. One thing that parents of any and all walks of life seem to struggle with is when their kids grow older, their boundaries start to expand. Kids don't rely on their parents to do everything anymore, they go out more often, the parents start to lose control. And this need for more space sometimes clashes with the parents' need to protect and control. This happens to damn near everyone to an extent, so at least you're not alone in this. What your mom's doing - monitoring your online behaviour - is fairly normal... if you were like, twelve years old.

Anyway, I gotta agree with some others that this is one of those things that's best kept hidden. It's a pretty personal thing that your mother wants you to share.

Maybe you could sit your mother father down about this, but instead of framing it as a fandom or GLBT issue, frame it in a "I'm becoming an adult and I need my privacy" kind of thing. That you let your dad know that you're going to have to keep secrets from them - the same way they keep secrets from you - but with the promise that you will be responsible, and tell them about things that are important to them and actually relevant (such as how your grades are doing).

I think your dad's most likely to listen to you. And when it's time to convince your mom, you'll at least have someone by your side