Discovering you were not straight at age 10 or younger?

I'm sorry I didn't realize I was gay till I was 11!

 

That seems to be the general narrative, yes. I suppose it's easier to recognize, in hindsight, since we haven't even gone through puberty at those ages, which just goes to show you that it's more than just sexual.

Personally? I was more concerned with getting through school and surviving at home than relationships, growing up. Didn't have a lot of friends, either, so the whole "straight friend crush" didn't come up.

Maybe we're just late bloomers.

 

I felt something to a friend at 9, but I didn't know what. I felt a bit different, but I didn't know it was this.

 

Oddly enough I'm at the other far end of the spectrum. While my sis seemed interested in boys at the age of 13 I didn't feel attracted to anyone until the past year so perhaps I'm just a late bloomer.

I suppose it's possible though especially since I've heard of some kids (especially AFABs) going through puberty at the age of 8.

 

Sort of. I had my first girl crush in the 1st grade. I just couldn't tell it apart from friendship.

 

My very first moment of gayness was when I was 3, or 4, or 5. Hm, it was before we moved out so it was 3. I dreamed of a naked giant man with an equally gigantic penis standing in a sea of lava. I'm not sure if this is the right word but I felt 'aroused'? I didn't realize I was gay until much later though when I had another sexual awakening, by another dream :lol:

 

I was a rather sheltered kid (well, in some aspects), so I don't think even knew what "gay" even was till about 8/10 years old.

I remember having these feelings for Britney Spears but not being able to but my finger on what it was. But yeah, that's pretty much it.

Yeah, I started to realise I might not be 100% straight at 11 when I had my first crush. Didn't quite add up the dots (and accept) until I was 14.

Yeah, I know a girl who started puberty at eight as well. I hadn't heard of people starting that early till I met her.

 

I've known since i was 9, not because of attraction however, i do remember having weird dreams and fantasies just all-round weirdness. i don't know if anyone else found out this way but now i can safely say I'm gay

 

I remember telling my parents at age 3 or 4 "No, no, no. I'm not going to have a wife. Boys marry boys and girls marry girls!". But in all honesty it probably had more to do with my incessant desire to frustrate my parents.

 

Looking back at it, I think I had feelings for one of my friends in 4th grade when I was 9. I was pretty much obsessed with him, very possessive and thought everything he did was the coolest thing ever. At the time I thought this was just me wanting to be his friend, but it was a lot more intense than that. I never thought I was gay. I didn't even know gay was a thing at that point in my life. Maybe if I did I would have realized then.

 

I was 7 when this same-sex person was new to our school and I was so jealous when SS went off with other people so I'd follow SS around all the time, and I asked to hold SS's hand and SS agreed, I was so happy. I thought that it meant I could kiss SS, but at least I learned at a young age that was wrong. 10 years later and I still find this person attractive, but even if SS was not-straight I don't think I'd do anything because I've known SS for a long time. I never knew liking the SS was 'wrong', I had watched FRIENDS when I was 9 and said "God loves it when two people, any two people, come together to share their love'' [the one with the lesbian wedding] so it was always the norm for me. On top of this, I went to a religious primary school, that never said anything against homosexuality. The only thing was there was an old song that had 'gay' in it so they had to change it to 'happy' so we'd understand it. The teachers told everyone to stop laughing so I later assume that they were telling people to accept homosexuality and it's something to accept, not laugh at.

 

I don't remember exactly, I might have been in my "no marriage or no kids" phase before I was 10 so it was kind of a hint. That passed when I later realized that sharing my life with a woman was also possible. I started to get worried for real when I wanted to try kissing my two best friends who were both girls. I was like 12 at the time. I didn't admit it to myself fully before i was about 14-15 though.

OH i just remembered, I told my mom that I was gonna marry my cousin (who is a girl) when I was like 5 but it might have just been me looking up to her since she is a couple years older than me

 

Had a vague hunch I might be at 9-10 but never really followed up with anything, 12-13 exploring the possibilty more, realised (or more to the point accepted) I wasn't straight last year.

 

I didn't realise it at the time, but on reflection there were some signs around the age of 8 or 9.

 

I knew at 3 or 4 in age. Thought both sexes were cute. My first sexual exploring or actions were with same sex. My attraction has always been the person. The sexual part doesn't matter to me

 

I could have known at around 12 I think. Didn't get past the powerful force of denial until I was...almost 18.

 

I knew I was ''different'' at the age of 7 - and had my first sexual experience at 13. Despite knowing I really liked guys, and I used to fantasize about them or watch gay porn I accepted the truth of who I truly was at 21. I literally had to come out to myself.

 

For a long time I have seen a guy and thought oh he's handsome. But I had my first big guy crush when I was around 15, before then I had mostly tried to suppress those feelings.

 

I kinda started to figure it out when I was 10. I wasn't sure, but I kinda knew.