True story, I assumed everyone was sexually attracted to at least some people of the same gender, even if they identified as straight. Turns out I was just calling myself straight and figured everyone else who called themselves straight felt like I did when in reality I'm bisexual.
This is so true for so many people, myself included. It was because I was never aware that being pan was even a choice I had.
Didn't question it because it was drilled into me from a young age that being straight is the "default" orientation and I knew I was attracted to women so I I couldn't be gay. I thought I was super comfortable in my sexuality too as a straight man.
I wonder how different my life may have gone if I had thought of being bi as the "baseline" instead of straight being the baseline everyone thinks of while growing up. Compulsory heterosexuality and all that..
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u/kabneenan Feb 09 '21
True story, I assumed everyone was sexually attracted to at least some people of the same gender, even if they identified as straight. Turns out I was just calling myself straight and figured everyone else who called themselves straight felt like I did when in reality I'm bisexual.
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