Imagining what it would've been like as a 14 year old in my sex ed class to learn that also some people aren't interested in sex and dating and/or don't experience that kind of attraction. Instead I went on to be very confused for 2 decades.
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I still hang onto pan as part of my sexual orientation because I am open to kink experiences with any gender. Otherwise, I'm happy to finally have settled on aroace. I always felt this immense pressure to find someone to date. Now I just stick to my ghosts.
I first learned about human reproduction in 6th grade but didn't learn about actual sexuality until 8th grade. This was in the early 2000's in Central PA.
This isn't even factoring what it would've meant for me to know what being trans and gender non-conformity were. It's deeply enraging to me that so many in power and people who themselves have children want to erase these concepts from children's education as "inappropriate."
Thank God online spaces exist for queer people, but not every teen is able to access them, and living in the dark when you're queer during such important years of your mental and emotional development is a deeply lonely and isolating thing to do.
Same. I spent so much time just wondering if I was gay, straight, or bi, with no idea ace was an option. All those years thinking surely I should have figured it out by now.
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