• Wren@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    I thought everyone was sexually attracted to all genders at least a little bit until I learned that no, straight people are actually straight.

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    Around 14 or 15 and was terrified of anyone in my family finding out so I kept that realization locked down. I actually never came out to my family as a queer woman. Then, in my 30s, one of my jesus freak aunts found a picture of me and my then girlfriend on said girlfriend’s social media page, still to this day don’t know how, and sent it to my entire family. Boy howdy was that a to-do.

  • thezeesystem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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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”

  • LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    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

  • Mora@pawb.social
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    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).

  • angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com
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    1. I stopped denying that being attracted to femboys was gay.

    Really I should’ve recognized I was bi when my first boner to a man was the same year as my first boner period.

  • TheHotze@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    At 14 I started looking at gay furry art on reddit, just because it was really cute, not because I was bi or anything. That same year I had meet a really cool guy friend who I started to develop feelings for, so that was when I actually realized I was bi. Since that, when I was 18 I realized I was genderflux because I was hanging out at a friend’s party playing video games and I had the odd desire to only play as female characters. I did know that was a common trans experience at the time so I knew something was up.

  • Tonava@sopuli.xyz
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    I was a teen when I found the word asexual and knew what was “wrong” with me. I had known way before though, I just didn’t have a word for it. On the other hand I was over twenty when I finally figured I was trans too. In hindsight the signs were already there when I was six years old or so, it just wasn’t a thing people understood back then