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It’s actually a fairly common situation with parents who are allies. When the parents just shrug and carry on, the children often end up coming out multiple times.
They have built up this huge monster in their heads. And when they just get treated the same as before, it breaks their entire preconception about what coming out would be. So they tend to go “oh, my parents didn’t understand me”, so they come out again. Then “they didn’t believe me”, so they come out again. Then “they must think I was joking”, so they come out again.
Meanwhile the parents are like “buddy we checked your browser history when you were like 12, because you were an idiot child on the internet and we wanted to be sure you were staying safe. We’ve known longer than you have. You can chill.”