How old were you when you knew you were Different?

[linapie1994]

I am straight  

[BluOnyx]

I found out when I was about 13, I started to get strange feelings for my one of my close friends.  

[Dragon Queen Nekrosis]

I knew I was gender-queer when I was about 14. People would call me such a pretty girl, and I felt that wasn't me. When people called me a handsome boy (I went trans in 6th grade), I felt it wasn't me either. I'm not a specific gender, I'm just Kat cat_wink I knew I liked everyone at about 9, because everyone deserves love, and there shouldn't be rules on who you can and cannot date/marry. cat_biggrin  

[Ojibun]

Well, probably you wont find it usual or normal but i have known and felt i was different since the day i actually began to picture things. The very first day i began to memorize images. Idk how to explain it lol, but i just simply woke up and asked myself what happened the days before that one. Something a little kid of age 3 wouldn't quite ask, in a way. So i just got up and then walked to the bathroom and stared at the mirror and there i just began to question everything i knew since then i was different. I knew mostly what gay was etc, so i guess it is strange, huh.  

[Mr Czachura]

The farthest back I can remember would be, when I was in Kindergarten. I was asked to escort a guy I liked at the time to the restroom, and he told me he wanted to hold my hand so he wouldnt get lost ^o^ Childhood Innocence LOL  

[L i l l i a n - O l i v e]

When I fell in love with my best female friend in the 7th grade.
Needless to say, it ended quite badly. sweatdrop

 

[SylverStar]

Hmm...I'm not sure I have...lol

Though in middle school a lot of kids seemed to have made fun of me, and bully me because they thought I was a lesbian. I didn't even know what that was at the time (I was pretty naive as a kid...took me awhile to figure out I was being made fun of). I just figure that's how middle school is.  

[Little Heir Apparent]

I can relate with that somewhat, haha. I never seemed to notice that people said odd things behind my back. sweatdrop

Anyway, it took me a long time to even think about how I related to sexuality, mostly because I never have had sexual attraction to anyone outside of the people I dearly loved. Like, I was 17 when I first touched myself out of curiosity. My family never had the talk, so I had to find everything out on my own. Oh, Internet... To be clear though, I didn't realize I was demisexual until... last week, when I met someone who articulated my exact thoughts on people. I just didn't have the label!

So, from my sexual awakening onwards, years would go by. I go to college, do college things, fail in a college way and work on paying off some debt... Get into a relationship with a man, have that fall apart because of stress, then meet another man who I am still with today. And then, now, I have feelings for a female friend of mine as well as for my boyfriend. sweatdrop Before this, I knew I was at least heteroflexible - I wouldn't mind if I fell in love with a girl as long as we were good together. There was a close female friend from high school that I sorta had feelings for. But something just clicked last year where, after a lot of reflection on my various identities, from how I think about people, I'm more a 3 on the Kinsey Scale.

I feel bad for even mentioning this though - I won't act on those feelings for my friend because I am committed to my boyfriend, but you can't deny what you feel.

So yeah! After I claimed the title bisexual, I later discovered demisexuality, and I feel very much empowered. heart  

[Australian Igloo]

I've always known I was different, I kissed my best mate when I was 7...that was interesting.
I love this photo though because it's obvious i've always been different, but it's never stopped me from being fabulous.  

[Prussian Imperial Guard]

It took me a while to realize that I was fat. It just sort of crept up on me (well, as much as something that gradual can creep, that is).  

[Maikus]

I knew I was gay since I was about 10 yrs old.

Sadly, all the other kids in my class used to say the word gay as though it was something to be ashamed about, so I never came out till I was 14 or 15.

When I did though, it was liberating, I fell like a whole new person, like a weight came off my shoulders.  

[Chris ex Machina]

I started out believing I was bi at 13. I had already had a relationship with a girl before then, and started feeling attracted to my best friend. If he only knew the reason we tested our strength against each other on my insistence was because I wanted to be close to him sweatdrop
I only recently started paying attention to myself and my interactions with friends and I realized something: the "romantic interest" I had in girls was just my feelings towards close friends of both genders (such as guys I don't have attraction towards). I realized I was gay this year, at almost 19. I'm "in the closet though."  

[timberwxlf]

i have always known, but didn't think much of it.
i figured out that there was a word that i identified with when i was fifteen.
it hit me like a ******** truck of relief and surprise.

 

[chrisahari_AMC]

Probably when I was in 5th grade, I developed a crush on this guy in my class. I still haven't come out yet, but I will when I start high school next year, so I can start a brand new slate.