""My son came out as trans six months ago and his father hasn't looked at him since. Just walks past him in the hallway like he's invisible," the mother wrote in a post published by the X user @crazyvibes_1. "My boy is 17, sleeping on our couch because his dad changed the locks on his bedroom door, said he won't have 'that confusion' under his roof.""
"The mother explained that she has been crocheting a trans flag blanket for the last three weeks, secretly working on it after everyone in her house goes to bed. She got the pattern and colors from a shop employee who understood that she wanted to show support for her son. "The stitches aren't perfect because my hands shake now from the stress, from lying in bed next to a man I don't recognize anymore," she wrote, adding that her son watches her work on it sometimes without saying anything."
"The mother wrote in her post that she planned to finish the blanket at night, wake her son the following morning before his father rises, pack her son's stuff, and move away with him to a small apartment she had already found. "His dad can keep the house and his hatred," the mother wrote. "We're choosing us. This blanket is going to be the first thing in our new place, draped over our second-hand couch, proof that someone saw him and loved exactly who he is. We're going to make it.""
A mother is making a crocheted trans-flag blanket to support her 17-year-old son after he came out as transgender and his father refused to acknowledge him. The father changed the bedroom locks and the son is sleeping on the family couch. The mother has been secretly crocheting nightly, using a pattern and colors selected with shop staff help, while stress causes her hands to shake. The son sometimes watches silently and broke down when he realised the blanket was for him. The mother plans to finish the blanket, pack his things at dawn, and move with him to a small apartment she already found.
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