Well, I've escaped doing one of these for sometime, but I figured I'd give the story to those who were interested in it, my coming out 'story'
So, I came out to myself in the summer of 2012, however it goes back a few more years, actually, to about 2008/9, so that is where my story shall begin
So this is going back to early secondary school, at least year 8, maybe more realistically year 9 or maybe even year 10, so from 13-15 years of age for those of you outside of the UK, there was one lad who had joined the year group in year 8, and he was alright, somewhat of a good friend although a little too argumentative in my mind, I think now, looking back at it, he had a small case of small man's syndrome (Google it if you are unaware of what it is) but either way, slowly, I sort of developed a sort of attraction to him, nothing major, just your typical early highschool crush, he was good looking, not going to lie, he was good looking, although nothing developed out of it, it was pretty clear that he was straight, and of course, I didn't want to be seen as different, so I kept on going, not really thinking much on it. That is where this story freezes for a few years
We moved up from London to Norfolk, in July 2012, just having finished my GCSE exams, and since the whole incident with my friend, finding him attractive and all, I was starting to look at other males and finding them attractive, although no one from my school or anything like that, more just sort of actors and musicians (Notably, Chris Evans (Human Torch, Captain America)) and I started to pay a little less attention to females, and then in the summer of 2012, I was perusing through Tumblr, and I found a couple of LGBT blogs, and they sort of opened my eyes to bisexuality and what that was and such, and I realised that the crush I had on my friend, was a little more than I thought it was; it was my brain telling me that I was in fact a little bi, and as time has progressed, I've found that I'm a lot bi, I like to think of it as at least 75:25 males: females in terms of my attraction to each gender.
I started coming out to some close friends, those who I could trust, and those who I knew I could trust, and I eventually came out to my parents in mid 2013, they were supportive and still are, although they don't really talk about it a lot, which is good, I don't really like talking about it to them, although I will do with friends.
So yeah, that's me, that's my somewhat story, a little uninteresting, but whatever, it's what I have and it's what I'll be using when people ask me the question that is in the title of this post.
-Craig
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