YouTuber Adam B shares the heartwarming letter he wrote to himself last year
“I don’t know if the wider world knows my secret by the time you’re reading this,” Adam B wrote last year.
YouTuber and author Adam B has shared a wholesome message written to himself from last year where he details he came out to his family and wishes his future self a smooth public coming out.
Posting to Twitter on Monday (7 November), the 23-year-old former Blue Peter presenter explained his tradition of leaving himself a note in the Christmas tree box to read for the following year.
With an image of the 2021 penned letter, Adam said “this year’s note was extra special.”
“Hello 2022!” the note begins. ‘By the time you’re reading this, I would’ve left Blue Peter, my book is published and hopefully almost finished writing book 2.”
2021 Adam shares that he’s very excited for the year ahead and feels as though he has “a new lease of life.”
“This Christmas, I also came out to my family. I don’t know if the wider world knows my secret by the time you’re reading this,” the letter continues. “But I’ve found someone who makes me really happy. His name is Dominic. Dom for short.”
“I hope 2022 has brought happiness, health and good memories! Merry Christmas!!!” the heartwarming letter concludes.
Adam came out in July with a video posted to his YouTube account, with 3.44 million subscribers, titled ‘I’M GAY…’
Speaking exclusively to Attitude earlier this year, the YouTuber, who’d been sharing his life online for the best part of a decade, shared that coming out felt harder “because people saw me as this prankster who’s always having a good time.”
“For me to make quite a personal video detailing quite big personal news, and getting quite emotional, it was very much a departure from my usual content,” he added.
Adam also spoke about meeting his boyfriend, Dom, who helped him realise he was gay: “The minute I met Dom, I was like, ‘Oh, wow, this is actually real,’ because beforehand it was just a what if scenario in my brain, like, ‘what if I’m gay? I’m probably not’.”
He also shared that Heartstopper was an inspiration to him in terms of gay representation, he saw himself reflected in the character of Nick (played by Kit Connor) while Dom was more like Charlie (brought to life by Joe Locke).
“I think it does a really good job for showing that [coming out] journey,” Adam said of the Netflix show. “Obviously, everyone’s journey is different, and my journey wasn’t identical to Nick’s but it was still really helpful to see it in a TV setting. I loved it.”
Adam’s debut children’s book Adam Wins the Internet is out now.