How old were you when you first realized... (private voting)

Contributor: Beck Beck
Before 10. I had my first sexual experience with a girl.
04/25/2012
Contributor: sleepyjeanne sleepyjeanne
It didn't occur to me until I was 19 and fell in love with a woman (I was nineteeeeeeen...). I had thought about it often in high school as I was friends with a lot of queers, but had always previously thought I was straight.
04/26/2012
Contributor: MaeGal MaeGal
I started kind of getting the idea when I was around 12/13.
I actually didn't know there was such a thing as bisexual, so I just figured I was a straight girl would happened to find girls a bit more appealing then normal.
I officially started identifying as bisexual around 14/15.
04/29/2012
Contributor: SouthernBelle SouthernBelle
I didn't realize I was actually interested in girls until I was in my late teens, and even then, because of a conservative background, I was in denial until I was 19 and admitted to my best friend that I was interested in her.
05/02/2012
Contributor: carenautilus carenautilus
I was like 13, I think.
05/05/2012
Contributor: CadmiumKitty CadmiumKitty
about 8
05/19/2012
Contributor: Modern^Spank^Anthem Modern^Spank^Anthem
My sister came out to me early in her teens junior high
06/06/2012
Contributor: britanny0620 britanny0620
I've always known I liked girls, but I found out it wasn't "normal" at around 8.
06/07/2012
Contributor: britanny0620 britanny0620
In addition: I realized I also liked guys around 12.
06/07/2012
Contributor: TheirPet TheirPet
I was asexual for a while but I found out I really didn't discriminate against gender at around 18.
06/07/2012
Contributor: Nanuk Nanuk
Quote:
Originally posted by Sinfully
When I was about 8 or 9 years old.
same here
06/07/2012
Contributor: Falsepast Falsepast
13 or so.
06/08/2012
Contributor: Mitzuki Mitzuki
I was 14 :]
06/14/2012
Contributor: xMila xMila
Not sure how old I was, but definitely before 10.
06/25/2012
Contributor: lecanis lecanis
I'm pretty sure I was in kindergarten or so. Another girl and I decided we were 'girlfriends', but her older sister said we couldn't be. I remember being so upset. I was already aware of being attracted to boys, so bisexual seemed the obvious answer, though I didn't learn the word for another year or two.

I did question my attraction to men a few times when I was older, but that was mostly because of situations I was in, and I currently identify as pan or bi depending on how likely someone I'm speaking to is to understand the terms.
06/26/2012
Contributor: thisisadeletedaccount thisisadeletedaccount
Age 13, I saw a bellydancer perform at a music festival. It was a bit of an "a-ha!" moment for me, though it was more of a "wow, boobs" moment, to be honest.
07/21/2012
Contributor: Pansies Pansies
I've been having crushes on the same sex for as long as I can remember!
08/13/2012
Contributor: Augustxsins Augustxsins
Early teens, right around 6th or 7th grade, I think.
08/13/2012
Contributor: bdan bdan
I had my first crush when I was 11. I didn't know at the time what it was but when I was 14 my boyfriend at the time introduced me to what I really was and since then I have know I was bi.
08/16/2012
Contributor: XxXxX XxXxX
Quote:
Originally posted by Peggi
How old were you when you first realized that you were bisexual? This doesn't have to include actual "encounters", it could've simply been your first crushes in school, or the first time you got butterflies in your stomach talking ... more
I was probably 11 or 12 (ish)
08/16/2012
Contributor: Moon20 Moon20
I probably knew since I was in grade school because I remember always since third grade picking a boy and girl crush in school but didn't realize it was called bisexual till I was 12
05/08/2013
Contributor: JinxPinx JinxPinx
Hmm. I think mid-teens. I had noticed before that I found some girls attractive but figured it was probably normal for girls, to judge and admire other girls (perhaps I just wanted to be like them?) but eventually realised I wanted to do more than that. I had a few crushes in high school and (even though I usually prefer guys) probably the biggest one was on a girl.
05/08/2013
Contributor: llellsee llellsee
I was 13
05/08/2013
Contributor: libbyv libbyv
Quote:
Originally posted by Peggi
How old were you when you first realized that you were bisexual? This doesn't have to include actual "encounters", it could've simply been your first crushes in school, or the first time you got butterflies in your stomach talking ... more
not until college when i fooled around with my roommate a few times
05/08/2013
Contributor: RaspberryRogue RaspberryRogue
I was about 16 when I first realized I was interested in girls, but I didn't actually identify myself as bi until I was 19 because I never did anything with a girl so I would just say I was straight or bi-curious. Apparently my mother always thought I'd turn out gay haha.
05/09/2013
Contributor: spiced spiced
I knew before I started school, probably from the age of 5 or 6. I played sexually with an older boy in the neighborhood and found it very exciting. He and a couple of his friends also played with girls, which I always wanted to join in, but they wouldn't let me!

When I hit puberty, there was no doubt. I was attracted to about 25% of the girls in my school, and to exactly 2 of the boys. If I'd known about the Kinsey Scale then, I'd have placed myself correctly on it then, as a 2.

My first sexual experiences were with my best friend, a guy. Since then, I've had sex with a number of women and still only with the same one guy.
05/09/2013
Contributor: Cosmonaut Cosmonaut
Early elementary school age.
05/09/2013
Contributor: Intrepid Niddering Intrepid Niddering
It's actually interesting.. My first kiss (like, actual french-kissing) was with a girl when I was five. We fooled around sexually, as well, and then my best friend and I fooled around a bit the year after that. Then throughout elementary school I had a variety of crushes on both guys and girls. I remember in foourth grade, I asked a friend, "Who is that? They're cute." I was told, "You know she's a girl, right?" She was very androgynous. I found it insanely appealing. "I don't care. She's cute. What's her name?" I had a crush on her for quite some time.

After all that, it wasn't until I was twelve that I thought, "Ohhhh... this means I'm bi. Huh. Never realised."

And then it was a few more years after that that I found out what omnisexuality is and realised that that described me better.
05/10/2013
Contributor: RigWife RigWife
I was 14 when I got my first kiss from a girl. changed my ways of thinking all the way
05/12/2013
Contributor: SydneyScreams SydneyScreams
All my first sexual experiences other than actual sex were with girls...kissing, mutual handjobs, etc.
05/20/2013