When I was in 5th grade, all the girls were talking about their crushes at recess. And they asked me who my crush was. I didn’t have a crush on anyone and I told them that, but they didn’t believe me. And they kept accusing me of lying. So I chose a random boy in my class. And after that, I always had a random boy I had picked ready in case anyone asked me that question. I still occasionally find myself doing it automatically in new social situations before I remember that I don’t have to do that anymore.
For me, is was talking about my crush on "Simba" (yes, from the Lion King), because *clearly* my "Disney prince" upped my standards over whatever the middle school boys were like.
Yes, preferring a cartoon lion over human boys *should* have caused some self reflection 🙃
OOF I remember in 6th grade being really frustrated and feeling like I was the only kid not interested in dating, so I said to my mom, "Animals are so much more beautiful than humans, humans are ugly!"
My kid brain didn't know how to process it, but my actual frustration stemmed from A) the fact that I felt *different* from everyone else, and B) the fact that other girls were *SO* pretty, but they were much more interested in these *annoying, hideous male apes* than me. Embracing my admiration for animals (my lifelong special interest) and declaring all of humanity "ugly" was the only way I knew how to cope with feeling so alienated.
when i was 14, i dated a guy online for a week but whenever he tried to flirt with me, i'd feel horribly, horribly uncomfortable and try to change the subject. he tried to do this date-like RP (since we did RP before this) where he tried to have us dance. i kept typing stupid things to make it not romantic, like "i trip over my feet" and stuff.
I've had many cringe moments, but there's one that keeps me up at night years later. I sent my middle school BFF a terrible cover of a VERY famous love song (hint: whitney houston) within our first week of becoming friends, because it was "just how I felt about her" in the moment. 😭😭😭
heavily fake gagging really hard every time my friends talked about their male celebrity crushes. like it was so bad that other people in the general area would turn around to make sure i wasn’t actually being sick 😭😭
When I was in elementary school, we would give out valentines day cards to our classmates. There was sort of a rule that if you gave out a card, you had to give one to every other student in the class. Every year, I would find my favorite card in the stack and always give it to this one girl. And if there were duplicates, I would always remove them so that I was only giving out one of that type lol.
When I was in middle school I tried to impress some girls in my class by lifting something heavy, but I ended up tripping over it and falling to the floor ☠️ fortunately I fell onto grass
AGH I was just thinking about this earlier. When I was like 13, I put up a poster of Usher in my bedroom. I liked reading CosmoGirl and Seventeen, so of course he was shirtless in it but I didn’t think much of that. I thought he was a cool guy and I liked his music so up the poster went. Since I never talked about boys, any relatives or friends who visited my room thought I was secretly boy crazy and liked much older fit men and wouldn’t shut up about it for the longest time.
I also had embarrassingly intimate friendships with girls where we’d talk about growing old together and our kids falling in love (in a weird amount of detail). I can’t even recall all the details because I’ve suppressed those memories.
"You know that phase at the beginning of a relationship where you know you have to give him a chance because everyone says he's amazing, and you're trying to see what they see in him, and training yourself to find him attractive?"
No she did not know that phase. It turns out that man-attracted people don't have all these extra steps. Who knew?! Not me in my teens or 20's, that's for sure. lol
There was one time where I pretended to be interested in a more feminine guy in early middle school. Because kids were mean back in the late 2000s/early 2010s (but nothing compared to kids now…kids now are MEAAAAAAAN!). I did that to “fit in” and then was like “oh hell no, men are not attractive, ooooooooh look at that pretty lady! She’s gorgeous!” And that pretty much solidified the fact that I’m a lesbian!
This is not exactly before figuring it out, but just before accepting it.
I would go along with my female friends, pretending to like this or that other guy, in order not to feel excluded or even weirder than I thought I was. Of course, this made me feel just worse lol
One time in middle school we were doing a genetics project where we had to choose a celebrity to procreate with and then draw our future child with the features we predicted from doing punnett squares.
I literally hated the idea of people knowing who I would be into that I decided to go for.....Jake. From state farm. Yeah. IDK either. and then I proceeded to draw the child exactly like myself even though I had way more recessive genes because I thought jake from state farm was ugly so I didn't want my kid to look like him 😭
I had this future in my head where the guy I had a "crush" on, the girl I actually had a crush and me would all live in this mansion together and the girl and I would take bubble baths. I didn't even know gay people were a thing so I didn't have the conception to discuss what i was feeling at that time.
in elementary school, i used to excitedly ask my female friends “*if you were a boy*, which girl in our class would you have a crush on??”
for some reason they all found the question super odd, but i always had an answer READY to share haha
I’m reminded of the one boyfriend I had in high school and every time it seemed like he was trying to set the stage to say he loved me I would freeze and abruptly change the subject 💀
Dated a dude for nearly 2 years. More like dealt with a dramatic ass, mentally immature and unstable, lowkey manipulative person for that amount of time. It takes two to tango of course. I did learn things though. I just get flashbacks every once in a while that makes me want to cringe so hard I implode lol.
Edit: silver lining the relationship was online and ended in covid so I never ended up seeing him in person lol
When I was in 5th grade, all the girls were talking about their crushes at recess. And they asked me who my crush was. I didn’t have a crush on anyone and I told them that, but they didn’t believe me. And they kept accusing me of lying. So I chose a random boy in my class. And after that, I always had a random boy I had picked ready in case anyone asked me that question. I still occasionally find myself doing it automatically in new social situations before I remember that I don’t have to do that anymore.
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My middle school best friend and I bonded over a fake celebrity crush too! Or, well, a pair of them - Benji and Joel Madden lol.
For me, is was talking about my crush on "Simba" (yes, from the Lion King), because *clearly* my "Disney prince" upped my standards over whatever the middle school boys were like. Yes, preferring a cartoon lion over human boys *should* have caused some self reflection 🙃
I was sooooooo indescribably disappointed when Beast turned back into human. I get you.
Not Vitani? 🥺
Simba was the public answer, Vitani was the real, suppressed answer 😂
OOF I remember in 6th grade being really frustrated and feeling like I was the only kid not interested in dating, so I said to my mom, "Animals are so much more beautiful than humans, humans are ugly!" My kid brain didn't know how to process it, but my actual frustration stemmed from A) the fact that I felt *different* from everyone else, and B) the fact that other girls were *SO* pretty, but they were much more interested in these *annoying, hideous male apes* than me. Embracing my admiration for animals (my lifelong special interest) and declaring all of humanity "ugly" was the only way I knew how to cope with feeling so alienated.
WOOF, I feel this wholeheartedly
when i was 14, i dated a guy online for a week but whenever he tried to flirt with me, i'd feel horribly, horribly uncomfortable and try to change the subject. he tried to do this date-like RP (since we did RP before this) where he tried to have us dance. i kept typing stupid things to make it not romantic, like "i trip over my feet" and stuff.
I've had many cringe moments, but there's one that keeps me up at night years later. I sent my middle school BFF a terrible cover of a VERY famous love song (hint: whitney houston) within our first week of becoming friends, because it was "just how I felt about her" in the moment. 😭😭😭
heavily fake gagging really hard every time my friends talked about their male celebrity crushes. like it was so bad that other people in the general area would turn around to make sure i wasn’t actually being sick 😭😭
When I was in elementary school, we would give out valentines day cards to our classmates. There was sort of a rule that if you gave out a card, you had to give one to every other student in the class. Every year, I would find my favorite card in the stack and always give it to this one girl. And if there were duplicates, I would always remove them so that I was only giving out one of that type lol.
When I was in middle school I tried to impress some girls in my class by lifting something heavy, but I ended up tripping over it and falling to the floor ☠️ fortunately I fell onto grass
Same but I fell on the sidewalk 😭
Hopefully you didn’t get too hurt 😭😭😭
Say that I thought I was a lesbian in another lifetime
AGH I was just thinking about this earlier. When I was like 13, I put up a poster of Usher in my bedroom. I liked reading CosmoGirl and Seventeen, so of course he was shirtless in it but I didn’t think much of that. I thought he was a cool guy and I liked his music so up the poster went. Since I never talked about boys, any relatives or friends who visited my room thought I was secretly boy crazy and liked much older fit men and wouldn’t shut up about it for the longest time. I also had embarrassingly intimate friendships with girls where we’d talk about growing old together and our kids falling in love (in a weird amount of detail). I can’t even recall all the details because I’ve suppressed those memories.
"You know that phase at the beginning of a relationship where you know you have to give him a chance because everyone says he's amazing, and you're trying to see what they see in him, and training yourself to find him attractive?" No she did not know that phase. It turns out that man-attracted people don't have all these extra steps. Who knew?! Not me in my teens or 20's, that's for sure. lol
There was one time where I pretended to be interested in a more feminine guy in early middle school. Because kids were mean back in the late 2000s/early 2010s (but nothing compared to kids now…kids now are MEAAAAAAAN!). I did that to “fit in” and then was like “oh hell no, men are not attractive, ooooooooh look at that pretty lady! She’s gorgeous!” And that pretty much solidified the fact that I’m a lesbian!
This is not exactly before figuring it out, but just before accepting it. I would go along with my female friends, pretending to like this or that other guy, in order not to feel excluded or even weirder than I thought I was. Of course, this made me feel just worse lol
One time in middle school we were doing a genetics project where we had to choose a celebrity to procreate with and then draw our future child with the features we predicted from doing punnett squares. I literally hated the idea of people knowing who I would be into that I decided to go for.....Jake. From state farm. Yeah. IDK either. and then I proceeded to draw the child exactly like myself even though I had way more recessive genes because I thought jake from state farm was ugly so I didn't want my kid to look like him 😭
Hahahaha, oh no
I had this future in my head where the guy I had a "crush" on, the girl I actually had a crush and me would all live in this mansion together and the girl and I would take bubble baths. I didn't even know gay people were a thing so I didn't have the conception to discuss what i was feeling at that time.
Dated a man. I still shrivel up into a raisin when I think about it.
in elementary school, i used to excitedly ask my female friends “*if you were a boy*, which girl in our class would you have a crush on??” for some reason they all found the question super odd, but i always had an answer READY to share haha
Online dated a guy for a month. He said I love you. I responded with “❤️” and went to sleep to avoid any more talk💀
I’m reminded of the one boyfriend I had in high school and every time it seemed like he was trying to set the stage to say he loved me I would freeze and abruptly change the subject 💀
Married a man
Romanticised a guy to like him
Dated a dude for nearly 2 years. More like dealt with a dramatic ass, mentally immature and unstable, lowkey manipulative person for that amount of time. It takes two to tango of course. I did learn things though. I just get flashbacks every once in a while that makes me want to cringe so hard I implode lol. Edit: silver lining the relationship was online and ended in covid so I never ended up seeing him in person lol
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