I think your family and work environment needs to be fairly easygoing in order to share something like this. I don't think I could have ever discussed this with my mother. There was a reasonable age gap between us, and she was fairly catholic to boot. But I have a friend at work who is in her 50s; since I explained it to her, she understands the existence of fandom and what you can find in it, and thinks it's just another odd thing amongst many in life.
My husband is midly amused at my burgeoning interest in slash, but he doesn't mind. He reckons once you get to my age (40) you are expected to find a weird hobby, and seems sort of relieved that my pastimes no longer involve sticks and blades.
However, I have to admit that both my work mate and my husband are fairly open minded people. If anyone else found out I wouldn't hide it, but I am not openly advertising my interests either.
You may have a point about the age thing though, in that most of my work colleagues are older than me, and not very open minded with it. I still can't imagine what sort of trouble it might land me in though, other than have people gossip and stop inviting me down to the pub after work. Ah. Hang on a minute, they've already stopped doing that anyway. *g*
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Date: 2007-03-31 03:58 pm (UTC)My husband is midly amused at my burgeoning interest in slash, but he doesn't mind. He reckons once you get to my age (40) you are expected to find a weird hobby, and seems sort of relieved that my pastimes no longer involve sticks and blades.
However, I have to admit that both my work mate and my husband are fairly open minded people. If anyone else found out I wouldn't hide it, but I am not openly advertising my interests either.
You may have a point about the age thing though, in that most of my work colleagues are older than me, and not very open minded with it. I still can't imagine what sort of trouble it might land me in though, other than have people gossip and stop inviting me down to the pub after work. Ah. Hang on a minute, they've already stopped doing that anyway. *g*