When did you realize you were LGBT+?

same goes for me

 

Probably when I was 15 or so... I had a crush on a girl in 7th grade but didn't really realize what I was feeling until later in high school. I like guys but I lean more towards girls.

 

9 years old for sexuality
14 years old for gender

 

I noticed the signs when i was like 11/12. Probably would have been able to figure out my sexuality within the next few years if i was raised in a more accepting environment. I just felt ashamed and thought it was inappropriate and wrong so i repressed it. Didn't start questioning till my 20's and didn't officially figure it out until the past few months. I'm 25.

 

When I was in 3rd grade I realized I was very attracted to females but didn't say anything. When I was 5th grade I learned what transgender meant. In my 7th grade year I came out as both being Pansexual and Transgender....I came out as polyamorous this year though

 

Well, it was a long process. I've known since I was 10, but I was in denial since I was 16. I tried to like guys (not that hard though because my heart wasn't in it), and constantly rationalized away why I didn't find the men around me hot. I commonly used the excuse 'well, i just like older guys' (unlike high school guys). At the time, I had feelings for my best friend since seventh grade, but I repressed it and wouldn't let myself acknowledge it, even though I had several dreams of us kissing. One time, we slept over and I woke up before her and just stared at her face thinking how beautiful she was.. how I wanted to kiss her. And I STILL didn't admit it to myself.

Eventually, these little things kept adding up, and I stopped being able to deny. It started with a trailer for a movie where these friends fall in love. It made me feel really, really anxious and wierd, even though I didn't know why. At first, I told myself that it was because I wanted more of a social life, and I was pretty lonely back then. But... the truth always comes out. And I kept being drawn to LGBT website, although (again) I couldn't say why.

It was one night. One beautiful night, where I admitted to myself I loved women. It all made sense. It was this huge euphoric moment where I was just amazed at how blind I had been.

I still had a lot of internalized homophobia to work through, and I realized I loved a friend who couldn't love me back. So, that sucked. But, here I am, loving that I love women

TLDR: basically, I knew since I was 10, but repressed it until I was 16, despite the very obvious signs.

 

When I cannot say, it's something that was always there. I began to notice it more during my early-mid teens however I didn't give it much importance but at the age of 17 I kinda knew. Still, I did not internalized, really understood it and accepted until about a year and half ago.
This place played a key role for me to feel more comfortable, confident about my sexuality. And thus becoming more carefree and easygoing.
So thanks to this wonderful community.

 

Back in the 6th Grade I started to notice that I was a bit different than most of the other girls as I was really noticing girls and not guys. I didn't have my first Lesbian encounter until I was 14 though in the 9th grade.

 

October last year! That's why I'm still not entirely sure with what I am.. But I'll figure it out one day.