tilkau
In direct reply to the OP: Making yourself vulnerable when you are not that strong yet? I don't know for sure, really.. 'coming out' never seriously occurred to me, because I was so afraid of saying the 'wrong' thing (even in a very mild sense, like asking someone about a slightly sensitive issue, or annoying someone a bit)... and also, it's always seemed like pansexuality is normal, every other orientation is weird... it still seems like that. *shrug*
'Don't beg for anything, do it yourself, or else you won't get anything.'
Usht is spot on. HS is a like a bullying warzone. Admitting you're gay at that age = super easy target.
edited 7th May '11 11:45:09 PM by KShade
Anwalt der Verdammten
The more I read this thread the more I realize that other people's high schools must be really homophobic places. :/
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Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
^ More like clannish. My high school didn't even accept Native Americans.
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Uh...what?
Do you mean, Native Americans were bullied horribly, or if a Native American student attempted to enroll, the school wouldn't let them?
Fuzzy Orange Doomsayer
^ Bullied. They could still enroll—it's not that type of region. (Or maybe it would be more accurate to say that if you were the sort of person who bullied people, Native Americans were among the people you bullied.)
edited 8th May '11 2:11:43 AM by feotakahari
That's Feo . . . He's a disgusting, mysoginistic, paedophilic asshat who moonlights as a shitty writer—Something Awful
Ugh. Yeah, I knew a few openly bi people at my high school, and they did okay, but no openly gay or lesbian people.
Nemesis
I knew absolutely nobody who was known to be bi or gay prior to college.
A brighter future for a darker age.
I knew by then too. I sorta had an epiphany while I was laying in bed trying to figure out why I'd never found any attractive girls anywhere while there were so many hot guys around. :/
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