The Pain of Cognitive Dissonance

"The pain of cognitive dissonance within myself was 10 times worse than the pain of my parents telling me that they no longer want to have relationship with me," he says. "I'm able to be who I am now. I'm able to speak my truth, which I don't believe is empirical." He's not unrecognizable by any stretch of the imagination but still enjoys the same music and movies as before.