My aunt who's visiting from California rode along with me when I went to get gas last night and she said she's known I was gay since I was 2 years old. WHAT!?! How could you know that so long before I had any idea that boys and girls had different bodies?
I think some people just have a very strong sense of who they are from a young age. Others don't develop a concrete sense of self until adolescence or later. As I fall into the latter category myself, I do not understand people who knew who they were when they were children (or remember who they were as children, for that matter -- my memory is horrible).
LOL 2 is a bit ridiculous but I had my first same-sex encounter when I was 6-7 years young myself. I believe these tendencies are inherent.
Well, I don't know about 2, but to give you an example: If someone had asked me at age 5, "Cameron, do you think you'd ever marry a boy?," my answer would have been yes. And I've thought Brad Pitt (to give a specific example) and other men were "attractive" since I was that young...not in a sexual sense, obviously, but otherwise it would have been fairly obvious that I at the very least had no problem being male-sexed and liking men if someone had questioned me then..
I have no memory of being 2 years old. If I had known what sexuality and being gay was, I would say I would have known since at least kindergarten.
My guess is she's assuming effeminate male = gay. You can often tell a boy is effeminate at that age.
I'm surprised children even in primary school could tell that I'm gay. I'm not sure whether they were joking or around or being serious, haha. Work experience was a load of fun!
Your aunt is probably full of shit and trying to act like you didn't "get one over" on her because people are sometimes offended when their family members come out to them later in life instead of as soon as possible.
A lot of parents (particularly mothers) of gay kids say that, in retrospect, they pretty much knew very early on. Call it mother's intuition, energy, observable characteristics... I totally believe that it's possible for parents to know (or strongly suspect) at a very early age.
I can relate to this a lot. Some of my first memories are of wanting to be a boy. Some people are just very self-aware at a very young age.