im bisexual and I liked kissing girls as a kid, but people always told me it didn't mean anything or that was the message I got from society so I pushed that to the side and I identified as straight from abut middle school until high school. I didn't really have a concept of sexuality in elementary school, like a conscious identity, also a lot of the kissing girls happened in elementary school. toward the end of high school is when I started questioning, like the end of my junior year. I spent a while thinking about it, seeing what turnend me on, thinking about what I wanted to do and what I didn't want to do, etc. until I became comfortable identifying as bisexual. and shortly after I came out, like sophomore year of college I believe.
so to answer your question, I would say when I was a kid. if it werent for the messages I got from parents, society, religion, etc. my interest in kissing girls probably would have continued and evolved into something more sexual and more emotional (just as a girl who likes kissing boys in elementary school would want to do other things with boys as she gets older lol) I wouldn't have felt like it was some big secret I needed to hide from friends. I think in the back of my mind I knew there was a reason I held that as "my biggest secret." but I didn't have my like realization of sexuality until high school. I think that's in general though. before high school, I was attracted to boys, but I still hadn't thought about sexuality as much. it was the standard social programming - boys were my only option and that's what I went for. the funny thing is that as much as I believed I was straight, I never felt like I couldn't date or be with girls, that it would be totally out of the question, as did many of my straight friends.
i think for people who really delve into their sexuality and have stronger feelings of homosexuality than the general population, it can be a journey really to figuring everything out. I'm okay with that. I think going with the flow is better than being hell bent on checking a box. I'm comfortable with my bisexual identity but I know others who I think of as bisexual who aren't comfortable with that label, or any label. I know people who are growing, finding not only sexual orientation identities that make them feel "right" and comfortable but also gender identities and expressions. I embrace it all, its just sad that our society at large does not and that inhibits the development to understanding and accepting our own sexualities and comfort in gender locations as kids and adolescents, to the point where many people don't really start accepting or allowing themselves to explore their sexuality/gender comfort until they are older and go off to college or move out, or even sometimes much later than that.
i feel like late bloomer sometimes, as many lgbt people realize or accept this part of themselves at a younger age, but I know people who came out much later in life so its not so bad.
I am neither gay or straight, I am bisexual. I am older, so in my childhood, it wasn't like now where you see LGBT representation. When I was a kid, Ellen wasn't on TV, bisexual wasn't a word in everyone's vocabulary, it most certainly wasn't trendy, I didn't know what it was, and I was raised in a strict conservative school in a small town and didn't know any gay people. In other words, there was nothing around to "influence" me in any way, not that I believe sexuality works that way any way. It was a very natural development, just like boys naturally crush on girls, I naturally crushed on boys and girls. I remember crushing on boys first, like in pre-school I thought boys were cute, my first recollections of crushes on girls were in elementary school. Ever since I have always adored boys and girls (and now men and women), love is genderless to me. It's about the person, not whether or not they are a male or female. It's safe to say I knew since I was a child but didn't get around to doing anything about it until I was an adult.
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What's Your Opinion? Sign Up Now!Errrrrm..same goes for heterosexuals.. when did you find out you were straight? It is also biological.
I am not really out to anyone so...umm...I realized I was bi over a year ago. I started having feelings for a close friend of mine. I genuinely loved her. I wanted to marry her but there was two problems with that I had a boyfriend and she had a boyfriend. At the time I knew was straight like a pole. I never told her how I felt. I was at that point where I would have broken up with my boyfriend for her but then something out of my control happened and I had to let her go.
I'm not lesbian. I mostly like guys, though I'm also attracted to all genders... but I remember when I was 6, I was looking through my nickelodeon magazine and I saw a picture of Brandy and just thought she looked really really pretty, so I kissed her picture. I was a weird little kid, man. I sort of realized I was sexually attracted to girls when I was like 13 and discovered lesbian erotica online, lol. But I realized I was NOT totally lesbian when I was like 5 and had fantasies of Ash from Pokemon being my boyfriend.
No it's not the same as heterosexual as someone beneath me put, I know I straight because according to the bible I came into this world straight. So don't get mad at me that's according to the word, If you choose to go the other way that was by choice simple.
Leave your religion at the door please.
But we can't choose our liking by ourself, it is something hormonal. we guys like vagina bz we don't have one and you girls like bananas bz you don't have one. Then what about a gay people they have it but still they want another one, means some points in the brain guilding us for sexual desires but it is not in our control.
As a heterosexual will tell you, there is no way I would even consider to have sex with a man, why? Not for moral reasons, but because I consider all men to be ugly, I dnt like penis. So, if someone is gay or lesbian is because they are, not because they chose, no heterosexual can "decide" to like their same sex. Also have in account that even if the bible have many good messages, but it also reflects in some parts the customs and way of thinking of the time, and not the word of god.
im still confused about it :/ and I'm 21
My gay friend told me he knew from a very, very young age, I don't remember what age he said but it was pretty much always. He didn't tell his family for years and he told them when he was 11. Does that help?
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