But that's like what, a decade and a half ago or something?
It’s in my present too.
From who or what? You can literally tell them to "get with the times" now, and you have gay friends who can help you reinforce this notion instead of being stuck within token pains.
How many of your gay friends do you think might act weird if they thought you were bisexual?
Do you have any gay friends, or ever attend any pride parades? The spectrum of coping with past damages is pretty vast, and many have moved on since it's become otherwise largely accepted both legally and culturally.
Yes I have gay friends and I attend pride parades and other events and organizations etc.
How do they tend to cope with their orientations compared to you?
And also being told that I wold grow out of it and it's just a phase, confusion, or misunderstanding. And also that I was sexually "just a late bloomer."
I've heard every rationalization in the book about my sexuality, it starts to wear on you.
I'm starting to feel like your connection to attraction itself is blurry and confusing.
My own connection to my own identity was blurry and confusing and I’m only just starting to make sense of it now in therapy. I’ve divulged on this quite extensively in my journal thread. Obviously sexuality is just a part of identity, and if you don’t even know who you are or you are second guessing it all the time, genuinely. How could you know for certain you were in fact *just* gay.
My point: Why does the label matter at this point?
If you're gay you're gay, if you're bi you're bi, why make such a fuss over which you are? Back in the 80s they treated bisexuality as homosexuality, and many bisexuals want it changed back to that so that they feel that much less separated from the community.
Fuck the labels, if you find yourself into a chick or into a dude, that's where your head's at.
I'd argue you're more sapiosexual with a basis on how much room they give you to talk and "be yourself".
But I’m coming to understand myself and my sense of identity is getting much stronger as I sort out and understand why I became so fractured mentally in the area of identity in the first place and the reason I had a desire to pose myself as someone I wasn’t in the first place.
You tend to say the bigger lies when you're either manic or overstimulatingly triggered. It's what's trained people to try to tune it out or otherwise take you as less than genuine.
It largely looks like it happens when you're not in control, and when it comes to picking up the pieces after the fact you retreat into the guise of faux apathy, insisting that people shouldn't care about what just happened even though your outbursts aren't something worth ignoring.
It was a protection mechanism. There is an external self and an internal self, and obviously only the internal self is genuine.
I tend to model it as "Needs vs Desires", or "Real vs Construct Selves".
Needs are inherent in that they remain regardless of the things you want. They are less obvious to the person, but still require feeding and validation for the person to feel fulfilled.
Desires are external, a construct belief that some think is their real self. Desires are morphic and can change with time, but as long as your desires do not match up with your needs... you can find yourself falling into highly contradictory behaviors that leave you unfulfilled and confused.
But people see the actions of the external self, without understanding the experiences and feelings of the internal genuine self, and how it reflects on and feels about the actions of the external self.
They're both important, you can't just ignore causality and the external reality to retreat into yourself, that's selfish.
It’s taken me a long, long time to fully come to terms with and accept that. There were phases, and as I passed through each one I became more and more certain and more out of the closet with my own self. If that makes sense.
How do you know that "gay" isn't yet another aim at finding yourself instead of a definite core answer? A lot of it reads as post-rationale.
"That's not real love" etc... I thought if I could just experience it for myself then maybe I could in fact not be gay.
But it just didn't work. I can't, do it.
What has you hitting on the men here more than the women though?
I don’t, I’ve flirted with women just for some reason people aren’t taking note of it. -.-
Which women? None are stepping forward to reference it.
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