How old were you when you knew you were Different?

[Mental Neko-Senpai]

Okay


I remember being interested in boys when I was young, like 6 or 7 but those feelings faded. I was in several relationships with women throughout middle school and into my freshman year, but I wasn't capable of sexual attraction towards them, and that worried me.

I started watching gay porn around puberty, but I figured the feelings towards men would go away, it wasn't until recently (I'm 17, now) that I came to terms with my feelings and truly took the time to understand myself and my needs as a gay man.

So I'm going to say I started developing those different feelings around 13, but I didn't begin to understand nor try to understand them until the age of 17.

 

[Isabella Kiyoshi]

I think I first noticed an odd interest when I was in grade school (before 6th grade). Mainly when I had a crush on my best friend and I'd feel unusually upset whenever they didn't go to school.

Then before 7th grade I moved to Texas, so I had to basically stay silent about a lot of this stuff so I wouldn't end up in a ditch somewhere near the tollrad outside of McKinney and it slipped my mind until it I started getting more urges to make out with friends I had that were the same gender I am in my junior year of high school.

With a person I dated recently who confided in me they were male to female trandsgender I found I was more pansexual than bisexual since I made the determination that regardless of their gender I'd still love them since their personality would be the same even if the contents of their pants changed. Ironically we broke up before the fourth of July.  

[Rei Kasumi]

i first noticed i liked girls when i was in the 3rd grade. i didn't come out of the closet until i was in 6th grade. but no one never accepted it. but now i'm 17 and everyone doesn't care anymore about me liking girl's and guys ^_^

 

[VeganIncubus]

When my extraterrestrial mother awoke me from the cosmic egg at the beginning of time.
My first word was "GAGA"

 

[Kalgara]

Gosh I was well aware I was trans since I was about 9 but always kept it buried under gaming personas and what not, knew I was a pansexual around the time I was 12 just didn't know the term for it at the time.  

[Trippy_Gazelle]

Hmmm I was always a very experimental child. Kissing girls in my neighborhood, girls and guys at once. I mainly stuck to dating guys, although I did really like this girl I was friends with and use to makeout with at parties. she was only bicurious though. I always knew I wasn't heterosexual. I thought I was just bisexual for a while, but then I started to find myself attracted to more than just pretty girls and hot guys. I started to learn more about the different types of sexualities, then found out that pansexual really fit me and what I enjoyed!  

[InoRoux]

I guess I didn't really much care for terms or feels as a kid. I mostly played games and was involved in clubs and sports. Too busy for relationships. Until I turned 13ish and had a friend ...ask me some questions. At the time I kind of rejected the idea but then later when I was about 21 I fell in love with my best friend... But...he is straight so ya.

26 now... slightly lonely but somehow okay with it...
 

[Dreamsy Sweet]

My first crush was Elvis Presley when I was five years old, I was crushed when I found out that he had died eleven years before I was born. I was already extremely gender neutral, very fluid and didn't care who I got crushes on as I got older. I had no interest in other children, I was always interested in celebrities because kids were just friends and playmates. I didn't start getting crushes on those around me until I was in middle school. Went into a deeper realization that gender -really- didn't matter to me and that it was all about presence and personality, also learned that I could hold feelings for more than one person at a time. It all sees simple now that I've done a hell of a lot of charity work for the LGBTQA+ community but it's still interesting to think back on.  

[Elijaey]

I wouldn't say that I really realized I was different when it came to what I was interested in, gender wise, but I was more so fair. I always thought, "Either way, no matter boy or girl, I just want to be happy." But when it actually came down to imagining my life with someone, I usually could only ever imagine it with a girl, the older I got.

Once I hit about 15 or 16, genders truly hit me. I loved women, but still enjoyed men.

I realized over the last few years though that I am not bisexual. I am a sapiosexual.  

[Beautiful Ava Adore]

I think I was in about 4th or 5th grade when I first started thinking about girls. I thought it was weird, so I suppressed it for years. It wasn't til I was about 15 or 16 that it started to surface again. Again, I thought that it was weird that I even felt that way, since I had been boy crazy for so many years. I realized later on that what I was feeling wasn't wrong in any way and didn't mean that I was messed up or anything, but I never wanted to tell anyone or admit to myself that I was Bi. Wasn't til recently that I even came to terms with it or came out to anyone at all. I'm a late bloomer. lol  

[Sora VioGreen]

I used to have crushes on girls in elementary school, and even through my sophomore year of highschool. But it was around my adolescence that I noticed I was attracted to men on a different level. I became more comfortable with the idea when I was around 18-19. Now I identify as demi-homosexual, and I feel comfortable with that label.