How old were you...

Discussion in 'Coming Out Stories' started by nintenfreak92, Dec 11, 2007.

  1. Giorria

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    I think I realised something was up when I was 13, accepting this didn't come until earlier this year.
     
  2. KB2111

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    Had a feeling-around 13 but denied it all through high school.

    first experience-19 when I was stationed in Okinawa.

    Completed accepted that this is who i am-20 when i met the girl that changed my life. we've been together for a year and almost 4 months.
     
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    I realized I was "Bi" at 13/14 (after my friend came out as the same to me).
    Became "lesbian" at 15 - I say that in quotations because I always used the term gay, and didn't like the word lesbian.
    Realized I was trans (agender) at 16/17 but it took me longer than that to accept myself as that.
     
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    I had suspicions I liked guys at twelve, but didn't properly accept it until about seventeen or so.
     
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    when i was almost 13 i began looking to pretty gay porn, then stopped it.'I tought i was just wanting to know how other guys did "it" or..what they felt doing it...it was weird.

    Almost 14 i started denying it, for almost 1 year, it was a hell, later i came out to 2 special friends.

    at 15 i accepted myself, and came out to everyone, recently my family figured out and i'm being rejected by my mother....But its fine, i'm who i am and thats what counts.
     
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    I recognized I liked looking at the male figure the day I turned 10.

    I was around 12 or 13 when I realized that meant I was gay, and immediately began praying against it and doing my best to stop thinking about boys.

    Just recently, two months before I turned 19, I accepted my sexuality and it took seven months to start coming out to people (mostly because I didn't want my roommate or suitemates freaking out about it).
     
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    I had always been different, I can see that now. I started really noticing the attractions to guys when I was 12. It wasn't till about 9 months ago that I accepted I was gay. Now I'm out to everyone. :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile:
     
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    I always kind of liked girls the same way I liked boys when I was younger but my family made me feel like being anything but straight was a bad thing. So it wasn't until I was around 12 that I realized there is nothing wrong with being lesbian or bisexual. So, anyways, I would say I realized for real, that I was bi when I was in the 7th grade after I turned 12.
     
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    I started liking guys when I was about 12, convinced it was a phase I just ignored it. 13 it got stronger and I knew I wasn't straight. Only really accepted I'm bi now at 15.
     
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    I was at an all boys boarding school from age 11 and plenty happened there to show me that sex with other guys was fun. I was 16 when I actually applied the "gay" label to myself though, and didn't come out until I had moved away from the family home at about 26.
     
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    13, but it feels like I have always known it.
     
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    I had male crushes since the age of 8 and finally accepted myself at 18, so yeah.
     
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    I think I've been gay for 6 years now. Funny thing I just learned what being gay was when I was around 11 years old. But I already had thoughts even before I knew what it was, so it just became clearer.
     
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    I was 17 I began to realize that I was a lesbian

    I accepted it at 28
     
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    It's weird for me because I sort of always knew, but never really realized it or something... then came a phase of a couple of years where I was just in denial, during my awkward teenage years. By the time I was around 18 I had just blocked the idea of it I suppose, it didn't really occupy my mind much.

    I didn't fully realize and accept myself until this year, when I was 19. It was because I was crushing like never before. On a guy.
     
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    13-14 realized. Tried to deny it, started to wank to enormous woman tits tell myself I could be straight. Believed it for a bit. manipulated myself.
    14 - accepted
    18-20 started thinking I was bisexual, cos I fell in love with girls.
    20 - What just happened? I am gay. stop falling for girls.
    22 Just fell in love with a girl.
    22 - finally open. everything is weird.
    What will next year bring :confused:
    Still 95% gay tho.. or something.
     
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    First thought I might be at 14ish. Then I completely denied it until I was 17 when I eventually realised I was totally in love with my female best friend (and had been for a while)...and finally I accepted it later that year. Which was only a few month ago XD
     
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    Childhood- always felt different. Like a freak... in Catholic school.
    age 10- learned what "gay" actually meant
    10-11, complete ignorance. Just thought liking girls would "kick in" one day (and avoided all thoughts of men because I was raised to believe it was wrong.
    12-13- feared it deeply, and actually managed (and this is true! I can lawyer myself into believing anything) that being turned on by men had NOTHING to do with being gay.
    14-15- Complete denial. I knew I liked looking at guys. I actively seeked out pictures of attractive guys. And fantasized about them. But still, just believed I must be straight.
    16- began having mental breakdowns because it was getting more and more complicated to rationalize the fact that I had no desire to be with women... to the point of severe emotional destructive tendencies and self-hatred
    17- I actually just blurted it out by accident one day. Complete accident. I never even had admitted it to myself. I said it, and it seemed natural, and that scared me to death, and I snapped and joined here. The rest is documented in these forums.

    The End.
     
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    Well, I am not 100% gay.. but I was definitely attracted to girls before I liked boys. I had a female friend in school who was, I guess you could say, my first love. Definitely was my first kiss. I then liked guys as well, and now I don't differentiate between genders when becoming attracted to someone.

    I have thought, at various times, that I was either bi, straight, or gay. Only now do I realize that I am all three really.. I used-to make it depend on who I was actively dating at the time. Sometimes attraction for either gender seems to come and go, but I attribute that more to the people who were, at the time, around to be attracted to. Now, I base it more on my own personal ability to be attracted to someone who could or could not come around, thusly not basing it on other people who could or could not be around. :slight_smile:
     
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    13 but accepted it at 14. Looking back now at the age of 15...I've realized that I've been bi my whole entire life (ever since I was a wee little boy). I mean like, sometimes you don't know until something happens. I looked back at my behavior (wanted to kiss a boy and a girl, played with doll couples with my friend and didn't mind having two guys, the list goes on).