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In reply to the discussion: Coming out as Bi soon? [View all]TygrBright
(20,756 posts)I can tell ya where I was when JFK was assassinated-- that and the Cuban missile crisis were some of the first "important" things I remember about being an American. Oh, and "duck and cover" and lining up for my polio vaccine...
And I pretty much always knew I was abnormal and deviant when it came to sex, because all the stuff I was told made NO fucking sense to me, at all. I was smart enough not to say so until I was a lot older, though. But my first sexual experience was with another girl. I had nothing against boys, though, caught up with them later.
I never, ever 'got' the whole "whether you think someone's sexy and you'd like to get jiggy with them depends on what shape their naughty bits are" deal. Seemed to me everyone had all the basics they need to love anyone/everyone else, so what was the big deal about which particular equipment any particular individual had?
Back then, that made me pretty "sick," though. I sure as hell wasn't straight, and the lesbians of the era wrote me off as 'not one of us,' and I just had to muddle through on my own, figuring out that something- some kind of switch, or hook, or whatever- got left out of me, somehow.
Wasn't until I was well into my thirties that I realized I was the lucky one.
I've made up for lost time, though.
So can you!
happily,
Bright