Discussion LGBT of SaSu - Anyone Else Late to Self-Acceptance?

[Celerity]

For most of my adult life, I believed myself to be bisexual. That my earliest crushes were of other girls and that the idea of dating men filled me with dread were inconvenient thoughts I rationalized away.

It wasn't until I fell in love with another woman that I was forced to face facts. With how long it took me to get here (I'm 33), I would have expected this realization to be rather painful. Instead, even though she abandoned me, I felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders when I finally accepted the truth about my sexuality.

I wonder now how my life would have turned out if I hadn't been raised in a conservative household in a deeply homophobic corner of the country.

 

[GodzillasBiggestFan]

yes, i knew i was trans from a very young age, but only accepted it a few years ago.

 

[Celerity]

yes, i knew i was trans from a very young age, but only accepted it a few years ago.

What made you come to accept that you were trans?

 

[GodzillasBiggestFan]

What made you come to accept that you were trans?

my best friend who i met around that time, they are also transgender and hearing them talk about it made it harder for me to deny to myself because i knew i felt the exact same way. and also my room mate, who somehow picked up on it without me ever telling them, and defaulted to using the pronouns that are my preferred pronouns even though i had never told him or anyone else to, seeing that i could be accepted by someone and not have it be treated as a big deal helped.