Problem #29

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So basically, my story is that ever since I was younger, I always knew I was different but I never knew why. Then when my oldest brother came out as gay, I started questioning my sexuality because I'm like... Maybe it's okay to like the same gender as you. So I started to questioning that in grade 5 and then I sort of just forgot about it because I was still so young. When I got into year 7 I found a group of chicks who were all either bi, asexual, or pansexual. So I started to hang out with them and then skip to the end of term 3, I started dating one of them - she was pans - then I eventually came out to my brothers and parents. That was really hard for me to do because I'd grown used to to hiding my true self from everyone for so long. When I eventually got the courage to do so they told me that I wasn't. That I was straight until I was at least 18, 19, 20, so I was old enough to understand all that sort of stuff... I'm still trying to tell them that this is who I am. That they don't know what I've gone through to understand this.


- Imoge, Pansexual

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