It is. I honestly feel bad for them...especially since they seem well-meaning. I'd even consider one of them something like a friend.

Or, well...as much as I can consider someone that way when they don't yet know the truth about me. I...realize this might be asking a bit much, but would you be willing to keep what you know about my history to yourself? I'd rather tell individual people in my own time than have it possibly be the first thing they find out about me.