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I'm "too young to know"

Discussion in 'Sexual Orientation' started by clocky, Feb 21, 2017.

  1. clocky

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    I came out to my dad over the summer of 2015 or 2016 (I can't remember) as bisexual. I was 13 then and he said, "But you can't know. You've never had a sexual relationship with a woman or a man." That really ticked me off. Is there any thing I can tell him to convince him that I know?
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  2. Quantumreality

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    Hey clocky,

    There is a common response to that: Ask him how HE knew that he was heterosexual before he had sex with a woman... And if you are really daring, you could you could point out that his question to you is akin to you asking him how he knows that he ISN'T homosexual or bisexual if he's never had sex with a man...

    But probably the best thing is just to be insistent about your sexuality whenever the subject comes up and treat is as a 'resolved issue' (i.e., since you already Came Out to him, just don't ever 'play along' with him if he presumes to know that you are heterosexual).

    Just some thoughts.
     
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    Thanks! That was really helpful!