How would you feel if your friend shared your secret ? - Page 3

Heck if I would get married I better be damn sure my spouse is a US citizen.

I'd ask her for ID on the first date.

A financial aid counselor outed me and two others in a presentation she was giving to potential students and parents about the university, I mean the plan was that we would go up to talk about the university and maybe one or two of us would share the fact that we were undocumented and able to attend to college, but she just outright told everyone that there were three students that were going to talk about this university and who by the way are undocumented too. biggest facepalm experience in my life. fortunately, the event was not attended by many, only 4 or 5 families, but I was not too happy about it, I would have rather told me what I have experienced rather then their first introduction to me being my status, and that is how I would prefer it should be.

I have told only a few of my friends, those that seemed to answer my questions accordingly at first and then I just felt tired of hiding that fact from them and I just told a few other people. It certainly lifts a huge burden of my chest, no more worrying about what kind of response I give them when they are driving me around and wondering why I don't drive, no more coming up with responses about what my future after graduation will look like, or why I don't work yet, or why I don't apply for this or that internship. It also ensures that they know that someone they consider a good friend is affected by this correcting their potential bias of who might actually be undocumented.

Regardless, the risk of whoever you tell outing you, it is a very real risk and one of the factors that held me from telling my friends for a very long time, even though I felt I could trust them, I could not control who they might tell behind my back or how they might react.

Hahaha! That was funny