How did you accept your sexuality?

I know many people go through acceptance and I was just wondering what people did to help them accept their sexuality.

Was it good friends/family that helped, support groups/sites, self help etc.

 

Well my attraction to females has always been there.

My gender identity was a journey and I'm still on it. And no one who I know in person knows how I identify... i accept myself and like myself and that was a long time coming.

 

When I got tired of taking it too seriously.

 

I just reasoned that it makes no sense to deny who you are. If you do you will always live your life pretending to be what you are not which in the long run only leads to problems.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I can imagine when it boils down to the bare bones of it, this is the conclusion many people come to.

Happy days

 

I realized that there are many amazing perks of being gay

 

I still haven't fully accepted myself

 

Well I was talking to a gay guy I met online, and by this point I was still 'straight' and afraid of being gay. And I don't know how this happened, but honestly in the one hour we talked, at the start I was straight and at the end of an hour I was gay, I had accepted myself. I still try and figure out what it was that made me accept it, and while by that point I guess I was slowly easing into accepting it, something about that conversation that made me accept it that I can't figure out what it is. We weren't even talking about our sexualities, him being gay was just matter of fact, and by the end it was the same for me.

 

For me, it was something that came with time. I knew that it was something that I would not be able to change, so why was I trying to fight myself?

 

I never had anything against it, so the second I found out about my gender identity (can't believe it took me so long to realize something so obvious) and sexuality, I was happy to finally know it. As a kid, I was always imagining things like a character in a show being lesbian and I would be one of the only to think bisexuality was cool.

 

I got a boner.

And then I was like, "So. That happened"

 

Amen to that.

 

When I realized and accepted the fact that I will always be attracted to other women and when I realized I'm not the only woman on the planet that feels that way and I will not be alone because of it .

 

I still haven't accepted it fully. I only started to acknowledge the fact that I'm not straight around December, and it wasn't until I joined here and started posting that I began to hear others' stories and advice and finally realized "yup, I definitely love girls." I've accepted myself as being bisexual at minimum, but I think there's a possibility that I'm gay and I haven't fully accepted that yet.

 

I told myself, "Ana, you're a lesbian. Deal with it." Then me and myself had an argument about it until I gave up.

 

Around the age of 14-15 I started questioning.
Found out I liked watching guys.
Fully repressed it and was asexual until 18.
Then joined the army, living everyday with guys made me face the truth.
But I kept repressing it even after I'd done stuff with guys.
Now I feel more okay with myself but I can't say I've fully accepted my sexuality and there are days where I still feel asexual or sometimes even bi-curious.

 

I've always accepted my sexuality. It's never bothered me, even when I found out. But this whole transgendered thing. Hmmm, it's still quite the ride, sometimes I accept it sometimes I don't

 

Idk I never really hated the idea of being gay, so when I realized I did in fact like ladies as well as boys it really didn't affect me. I was never like "oh god please no not gay!" I was just kinda like "ok, I like girlls. Whatever."

 

For me, it took a while for me to fully accept myself and I had a pretty long denial stage. Eventually I realized the being gay is only a small portion of who I am and that it was no use changing trying to change something that can't be changed.

 

I just decided to be myself. I also realized that this is my body, my mind, and my life, so I can do what I want.

 

I think it was more of needing a person to talk to about what is going on and why I'm always having the thoughts I'm having. Since I grew up Catholic, it was difficult accepting of my sexuality. It it weren't for my religious beliefs, I think I would have accepted my sexuality instantaneously.