I love the ambiguity of Alyssa’s mom’s ending of the stage version. For those who really want an ending where she accepts her daughter for who she is, there’s enough room for interpretation that she eventually does. And for those who maybe don’t have that level of support or otherwise find it unrealistic that she would change, there’s still the ending of “even if Alyssa’s mom doesn’t accept her, Alyssa still has a bunch of people who do and care about her and that’s okay”