Honestly, nobody but my friends knew that I was a libertarian (minarchist or anarchist) for about 3-ish years. I did change my dad's views here and there, but he thought I was a conservative until a few months ago when I started to more openly disagree with him. He hasn't changed his attitude towards me except when he asks me about my opinions, where instead of assuming like he use to he actually asks now. He's the person that got me into politics, but I don't see any disappointment from him that I've went a different way than what he raised me.
The rest of my family that cares about politics, however, does not know. Half of them are the ones that whenever we discuss the police it almost always gets to a yelling point. I now just try to avoid discussion with them, so I doubt that they'll know my true political identity for a while. I believe there would be some social consequences with them if they did find out, but there is no need to tell them when they believe that decreasing the funding for police at all will cause "them" or "the other side" to win.
The other half is more libertarian leaning anyways and more accepting when it comes to that kind of stuff, but I see no use in being blatantly open about it since I only see some of them 4 or 5 times a year.
Wow. That's a really unique story about your father. I am glad you were able to work with him in that way. Amazing. And I totally I understand the desire to avoid discussion with the rest of your family. It's difficult discussing these ideas with family sometimes.
As for me, I am a public figure in terms of my position, so everything is out in the open for my family. When I first started speaking up, I got a lot of backlash. But eventually, they just started ignoring me. I think, in part, most of them don't really understand anarchism. But I am working on bringing more over. It just takes time and patience, but I understand that some people do not have either one of those commodities.
Thanks again for sharing that, Nick. It was valuable.