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What do you "pass" as?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Tre, Jul 30, 2016.

  1. Kasey

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    One of my students said my skin color is clear... wanted to smash the little shit upside the head.
     
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    I honestly don't know. I've been told I pass completely as a white dude, and that I have a touch of something there....and I've been told I pass white, but I don't look "european white".

    As for sexuality and gender wise, I don't know for sure if I pass as a "straight guy" or what.
     
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    I pass as a straight cis male. I'm not straight at all, but I'm not really feminine, so I guess people don't think I'm gay. Those who wonder about often tell me they have no clue what my sexuality is.

    While I do pass as cis, people always assume I'm younger. I barely look like I'm major, so I always get asked if I'm really over 18, even if I'm almost 20. I think I look 16. Some people say I look my age, but they're in the minority.

    Nobody mistakes me for another ethnicity. I'm white as hell and my accent is unmistakably from Quebec, so I can't pass for an English native speaker, even if I wanted to.
     
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    Usually pass as straight and female, but things might be different since I just got a pixie cut after having hair down to my butt.
     
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    i pass for cis male aaannnddd thats it lol
     
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    I'm a white cis male, and I've never been mistaken for anything else.

    No one has either suggested to my face or started rumors (that I discovered) that they think I'm not straight. However, the first friend to whom I came out, when I asked if he suspected anything, said that he thought I was probably gay shortly after we'd met - which was shortly after I came out to myself, and a couple of years before I came out to him. So there could be other people who feel that way and haven't said anything, but I'll never know unless they speak up.
     
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    On a good day, as a teenaged boy who's semi-put together. :dry:
     
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    Annoying straight, and very depressed apparently (even though I try to hide it :\ ). I find it so annoying talking to people and them assuming I have a girlfriend, or should have one, even after they find out I am gay, they "refuse" to believe it as I do not "act" it. I am not overly masculine by any means at all, but nor am I feminine (well not around most people at least), so I find it frustrating to say the least. I find it impossible to "act" any other way than I am, though I do wish my personality would just switch to make me more obvious and less guarded, not that I feel like I guard myself. *sigh*
     
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    A grouchy ogre...
     
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    Straight white cis female. Literally one of my closest friends had no idea I was gay and I didn't know she was either xD I present as somewhat feminine because of my long hair but my wardrobe is pretty androgynous. I would scream LESBIAN if I cut my hair though.
     
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    Based on what people say: bisexual, male, and Portuguese. I'm (usually) none of those.
     
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    I look like your typical white, straight, cis male. Everyone that I've come out to had no idea so I've been able to stay closeted with relative ease.
     
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    I pass as a straight, mixed girl. Sometimes pass as white or Hispanic, but I'm half black, half white.
     
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    Years ago people thought I was gay, now they see me as straight.
     
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    I don't know. Some assume I'm straight, others assume I'm bi or lesbian. It depends on their level of intuition, it seems.
     
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    I pass as a straight, white woman. I'm pretty feminine and outgoing, so people are shocked when I tell them I like women.

    I've been told by a few people that I'm not completely Caucasian. A few people have noticed that I have more olive-white skin. Probably because I am part Native American.
     
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    There was a time when I wanted to pass as your average straight male but I stopped caring and just do whatever the fuck I want now. And yes, that makes it very obvious that I'm not straight at all.
     
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    I pass as... Gay, mixed race, female and not very normal - slightly nutty.

    Seriously, people never think I'm straight (except maybe one side of my family... just because they're not looking I guess). Even when I thought I was straight they didn't think I was straight. That I'm a little bit iffy on but the rest is very accurate.

    Though tbh I don't know how people really read my race, I've had people call me black but I'm so far off of that, I'm just assuming they were just trying to make a point about me not being white, not actually thinking I'm 100% black. People from Tenereife when I go on holiday think I'm from there. So maybe I should say gay, Spanish, female.
     
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    I pass as fairly invisible white straight guy to all but the internet...
     
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    I pass as a straight white guy.
    When i came out to my friends, they asked me to prove it :lol: