Comment on Found Lily and Mitch
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Plenty of kids already know if they are gay or not. In my home country, I have had classmates in elementary school who are openly gay. Some cultures find it awkward to talk about it to children, whereas in some, tolerance and acceptance to lgbt is part of culture. I probably don’t need to mention about the concept and existence of third genders since the ancient times.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve heard this before, and don’t get it. I mean, sure, I’m a late bloomer, I was about 20 when I figured out my sexuality and even older when I figured out my gender. But people don’t experience attraction before puberty, right? How do they know what groups of people they’ll grow up to be attracted to?
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, we all have crushes when we were kids, don’t you agree?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
we have not all had crushes as kids, no. there was a very definite point where the flip in my brain switched and i started considering the concept at all, and that point was around the time of puberty.
Until then i was utterly confounded by all the other kids who insisted they were dating each other, especially since they barely even spent any time together lmao.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I genuinely didn’t think this was the case, but makes sense!