"You should tell them sooner but if you don't want to, it's your choice. Just don't keep doing it if it's ever at your own expense, okay? It doesn't seem like it's really hurting anything that much right now, but the more you have to deal with and the more you have to fight, the more it gets harder to deal with it all, and figure out how to work through it, and who you wanna be. And you can't figure out how to help yourself work through it if you're worried more about other people than figuring yourself out."

He went on, "As much as they might freak over finding out what you're hiding, they'd also feel really bad if you hiding it wound up hurting you. Think about it - if what they want is for you to be a happy, healthy kid, how bad would they feel if you pretending to be that for them makes it harder for you to grow up into a healthy, happy grown up? It'd kinda defeat the purpose, wouldn't it?"