Hey guys!

So it's officially occurred to me that I haven't posted an intro about myself yet... I figured I better get that done

Alrighty, so I'm male and 19, and for the past five years I've known that I was gay. However, I denied that fact about myself for a long, long time, and hoped that if I suppressed it, it would go away and I'd be 'normal' (I put that in quotes because I no longer believe 'normal' really exists - everyone's different). Apparently not - I'm gay and over the past year I've started to come to accept that. And think of the plus side, I now have an excellent excuse to never have children (because I don't do well with kids ) :icon_bigg

I'm a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Honours) student at McMaster University right now, and in a couple years I'll be applying to medical school to become a doctor - something I'm super excited about! I'm thinking I might do the MD/PhD program and become a clinician-scientist in the field of virology - I'd love to work with other leading researchers to come up with novel cures and treatments for HIV/AIDS. I also have a lot of interest in neuroscience, so I'm kinda torn there... I guess I'll see what I feel like doing when the time comes to decide on a topic for my doctoral thesis

I'm not truly out in the classical sense - but if anyone were to directly ask me, "Hey Aaron, you've eyed that guy over there about a dozen times in the last ten minutes... are you gay?", I'd respond with, "Yeah, why?" So I guess I'm kinda out and kinda not. I'm certainly not out to my parents - I'm not sure when I'll be able to muster up the courage to break it to them, but that's for another post.

Anyways, just wanted to introduce myself and say hi!

 

Thanks guys ^.^ Maybe being on here will inspire me to suck up my fear and come out completely... unlikely that it'll be that easy, but one can hope