What have you been mistaken as?

Both my sister and my best friend have assumed I'm lesbian. =P (Mainly because I'm disgusted by male anatomy parts. =P)

 

Queer woman- no matter how I present. I either get mistaken for butch or I pass.

 

every day people mistake me for a typical straight boy with a good bit of tech skills that most people do not learn as early as I did

 

People keep mistaking me for being straight. -_- (Just because people will usually assume you're straight unless you say otherwise.) And my mom says lesbians can't be feminine, so maybe the fact that I don't dress like a boy is making it harder for people to figure it out... I guess people don't notice the rainbows...

 

I'm a very ~androgynous being~ so I'm usually mistaken for a queer woman, a 13 year old boy, or .. only who knows what people are thinking. I find it fairly amusing, though.

 

Straight Tomboy - Mother and Family
Lesbian - Mother and Grandparents after I came out as an FTM X<
Bi- Childhood friend
My brother....I was trying to pass and passed as my little bro thats like two feet taller than me...
Over all...every label I can be besides gay...I'm a pansexual...and none of who I am...

 

I've been mistaken for a guy by a janitor, a homeless guy, a doctor at a walk in clinic, a waitress, a dental hygenist........ this is all just by wearing baggy clothing..... I have short hair, very little 'shape', and don't wear make-up, so when I wear looser fitting clothes this happens sometimes! This was all far before I started questioning my identity though.

 

I've been mistaken as my little brother sooooo many times. It makes me laugh, because he's so short and I'm so tall, but our faces, hair, and the fact that both of us are skinny as rails is what makes us look so alike. I've also been mistaken for a butch lesbian and a cis male (yay!) multiple times.

 

This ftm curse led me to be called strange things. A lot of people thought I was a tomboy during my childhood. I was 'passing' before I knew what it meant. In high school the other kids almost always called me an 'it'. I tried to be a straight girl for 2 years and I got called a butch girl... while I was dating a guy...wow
In college I said I was trans and they thought I meant mtf and asked me unexpected questions.
Okay, so at this time most people were confusing me for a butch girl or a young boy; I came out to my fellow students on the admin college course. I was with a group of them between classes and we were talking and eating snacks. I said something like "This might sound weird, but I have the brain of a man. I'm a man despite this female appearance." They looked confused so I broke the silence again "If it freaks you out, I understand, it freaks me out, too." and a girl said "No. We like that. It's cool. It's your thing." and a guy asked me "Do you still have... did you get the chop?" That's when I realised they'd been terribly mistaken. So I blurted "No, I'm going the other way! I know you might've never heard of female to male, so it's weird... I understand." I eventually explained it to them... it was so AWKWARD! Tune in next week for the first time I drank alcohol....maybe

So I usually only talk about the bisexuality. I get mistaken as a gay guy sometimes. I guess I wear a flashing neon sign that's invisible to me. I'm sorry, I didn't realise my jacket had a sexuality! You could say it's half right at least. As long as people don't start trouble with me, it's fine.

 

Apart from straight female, no one's ever expressed a mistaken belief of my sexuality, but it's interesting to see how they react to my autistic behavior. I've been mistaken for:

* neurologically typical (the default unless I give evidence otherwise)
* really smart person with self-confidence issues (they think I'm being hard on myself by realistically describing my weaknesses)
* having a panic attack (I was actually overloaded but not anxious)
* cognitively disabled (especially by bus drivers - buses really confuse me)
* lower functioning autistic
* ADHD (my school thought this)
* a juvenile delinquent (my school thought this too - in fact I've only broken the law twice in very minor ways)

 

My entire family and my little brothers friends thought I was FtM

 

I've been mistaken for what I call the big four. A straight guy, straight girl, Lesbian and MtF. I'm actually just a gay guy but I crossdress so I guess some confusion is to be expected. I was utterly shocked when I was shopping with my sister and a guy started hitting on me. Frist I was flattered but then he said to my sister "your sister's so shy" I didn't have the heart to tell him he was flirting with another man. But it was funny I wasn't even in drag I was wearing a hoodie and some jeans guess I'm just girly by nature anyway that was my best gender confusion story. Now if I can only get gay guy to flirt with me we'll be in business XD

 

Nothing orientation or gender related, but people seem to never know how old I am. I'm either talked down to like a child, or called ma'am like an old woman!

 

The few times I've presented female in public I've passed or "not called on it".

I however in grad school in my late 20s up to 30 was confused for a freshman by new members of my karate club...

Not a bad thing.

 

Online where people can't see your face I've been mistaken for female more times than I can count.

When I had long hair, and worked as a cashier I think 5-6 times someone only half-paying attention thought I was a girl xD

 

Me too!! People think im a girl like all the time and i like it ^^

I havent really been mistaken for anything else except when people think im straight i guess :3

 

I've been mistaken for:

-online as a straight guy;

-in the real life as straight guy, feminine guy or gay guy :eek: also as androgyne person.

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