37- My spouse realized they were nonbinary, which made me do some self examination and realize I wasn’t as cis as I thought I was.
~30. I can’t be more precise, It was a long process realizing that what I am falls under LGBTQ. Maybe. I’m still afraid of being excluded.
hey, I see you also have that self doubt that comes free with “finding shit out about yourself in your 30s”.
12 or 13. but it took until I was 18 before I admitted it to myself and came out.
the 90s were a different time.
That’s a pretty good timeline for the 90s, all things considered
Yeah, I was pretty lucky. I knew/ know a lot of people who had it much worse.
I realized I was bi around 21, and probably around 25, I knew I was something other than a cis man. I didn’t know quite what, and examining that question too deeply was scary. Nonbinary felt right, but I actually started presenting more and more masculine, I guess as a way of covering up and trying to deny what I realized just after I turned 29 - I’m actually a trans woman. It’s been such a relief to understand that and be able to start my transition
6 or 7 - I experimented with kids my age, and it ‘clicked’. But I would struggle with that concept until I was about 12, when I decided ‘fuck this religious bullshit’. I started dating guys when I was 13, I was out to my friends the same year, the general population when I was 15, and finally my family at 21. Though for my family it wasn’t how I planned. I thought I was going to die soon; my original plan as a teen was to tell them on their death bed, mostly because of fear of physical violence. My family was very not-accepting growing up and through my teens. I lived in fear for all of my teenage+ years, many times not sleeping to make sure I wasn’t attacked in my sleep.
But yeah, at a very young age I was like ‘boys are cute’ and ‘wait a minute…’
Okay I got to ask, at 6, 7 my only focus was teenage mutant ninja turtles, how in the hell are you experimenting at 6, 7?
I lived in a neighborhood with a ton of kids that were +/- a year from me, and there were several that shared my curiosity. It was rather… common? For the chat to shift from Playstation and Nintendo games to other topics, just as long as the parents weren’t around. One thing led to another and hey this is a new experience…
Over 2+ decades, people moving away and starting their own adult lives, I lost contact with most of them. But I’m still in touch with two of them: one is now trans, the other is a fellow gay furry.
Thanks for the reply! I guess parents being out of sight would eventually lead to that.
I’m LGBTQ+? Oh good.
I thought everyone was sexually attracted to all genders at least a little bit until I learned that no, straight people are actually straight.
Around 15-16. I used to browse 4chan during it’s heavy trap phase and realized I don’t mind if they have a penis as long as they look like a girl
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25 when my therapist at the time helped me realize what LGBT actually fucking was and not what the media betrayal of it is.
Basically when someone told me what It actually is instead of a “disease” or “disorder”
I was 17 I realized I was trans. A revelation that helped me better understand my sexuality as well. Turns out I’m bi/pan. I did spend several years just assuming I was ace because the idea of sex didn’t interest me until I realized I was a woman.
30s no, I won’t elaborate
I was 18 when I realized I felt the same way about Ro Laren and Maria Hill as I did about any men I thought were attractive but it wasn’t for several more years that I realized that when most people were attracted to someone they actually wanted to do something about it
9ish? Although due to bullying, homophobia, culture, I wasn’t “ok” with a label until I was in my late 30s.
11 and the revelation was delivered by a wet dream. I mean I looked at dicks online before “to compare” but did not realize I was attracted to it. After realizing that it just took about 5 years to start sharing that with my closest friends and another 8 years to share with my family and other friends. Started dating with 26 and have been in a happy relationship ever since (though I would love more fuck buddies, as I am still rather inexperienced there).
I was 26 when I realized that romantic attraction is even a thing. It was a year later before I realized that I am ace as well as aro.
