TIFU by accidentally supporting pedophiles


Ok so this is my first story-like post on reddit and it may not be as bad as some other stories on here but it’s still eating at me. I will forever hate myself for this.

It started last night, I was on Snapchat looking at peoples stories and on one story there was a picture that said something along the lines of I support the LGBTP community then it gave a list of different names. (For example Gay, Trans, etc.) I, being a really dumb (as you’ll see later) 14 year old bisexual, I was like “cool I’ll screenshot it and put it on my story.” Though I was confused about the P because I knew it wasn’t normally in the acronym, I read on the picture that it stood for Pedosexual and a thing about how it should be included. I didn’t know what it was but shrugged it off as being a new sexuality or something I haven’t heard of yet.
So I post it on my story and go to bed, unaware of how dumb my mistakes was.

Next morning I have two notifications from Snapchat. One from my best friend, we will call her Amanda, and another from someone I’m kind of friends with but not close to from the LGBT club. The text from my friend said “this is a joke right?” Talking about that post and I was confused so I just told them who I got the image from (the person who posted it was a friend of both of ours and I learned by Amanda it was posted as a joke). I then go to the second text. It was her saying that pedophiles aren’t a part of the LGBT community. Yeah, so I effed up. Turns out Pedosexual means pedophiles. I didn’t know that was what pedosexual meant and following what Amanda had told me, I just told her I did it as a joke because I was too embarrassed to admit I just didn’t know what it meant and didn’t understand. That was a terrible mistake however with her response being “its not a very good joke.”

So far I haven’t replied and I’m terrified to, on Monday we have LGBT club and I don’t know if I can face her. I guess that’s all and though she will probably never see this, I’m so sorry I was too dumb to realize I was supporting pedophiles.

Though some people may argue it wasn’t my fault (at least not entirely) I think it was because I was ignorant, posting something I didn’t understand for everyone to see. Just because it was an accident doesn’t mean it wasn’t my fault and I should be more careful, maybe research things better in the future and not just trust that it’s a positive thing. Just because I see a rainbow and the words LGBT doesn’t mean the post isn’t a joke or is friendly and I know that now. Thank you.

TL;DR
I unintentionally posted a picture on my Snapchat story that supported pedophiles and left a friend on read after realizing my mistake. I’m so sorry.