I Feel Stupid

For just now realizing I’m bisexual at age 25. I’ve, apparently, been in denial my entire life.

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ladycae · 100+, F

my late wife had a friend tell her she was a lesbian at 50 so your way beating her. i knew as a kid but avoided it till my 30's. so you beat me too. we each have our own journey to travel and the speed we walk it doesn't matter and the turns we take are ok.

DarkHeaven ·

@ladycae I knew at 11 or 12, but hid it from family until I was 23. It’s so tough to be open about. ✌️

ladycae · 100+, F

@DarkHeaven it was so much worse back in the day. be grateful you came out in 2019 when you were not taking your life in your hands. i lost two jobs, a home and a best friend, one morning i came out to an NRA sticker over my double woman's symbol om my car. We had no protections under the law.

DarkHeaven ·

@ladycae I didn’t come out in 2019. I came out in early 1999. 20 years earlier. Just months after Mathew Shepard’s brutal torture and killing. It was a much different time. I was raised in the traditional rural US Midwest. I was in the music scene, so there was a bit more acceptance there but I’ve bern cussed at, spit at (my beautiful black girlfriend at the time and I,) hurled every kind of prejudiced name and insult. I’ve had my car trashed. Believe me, I know what prejudice looks like. It is what it is. Peace. ☮️