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Tight-ControlSenior Contributor
HI , I live in Western Australia and one of my children aged late teens has identified a A sexual and is really struggling with this. Does anyone know of online or face to face resourses for our family and my child to help wokr through this so they can have be happy and omfortable with who they are. I hope that makes sense.
In response to: Child has identified as A sexual.
TheVorticonSenior Contributor
Some possible resources are:
- Reachout forums for peer support (there's one for young people and one for parents) https://au.reachout.com/
- Qlife (useful for pointing to other resources) https://qlife.org.au/
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