Okay, so this is kind of long. For background information, I am currently 19, and a first year student in University of Limpopo.
For most of my life, I thought I was straight. Let me say: ‘I don’t know if I’m straight or lesbian. I got tons of crushes on boys, though none of them were serious. That was before 10th grade. That year, I had become deeply infatuated with the boy I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life with. He was a year ahead of me, and I was too shy. My 11th grade year, he wasn’t at my school anymore because that was the first year of Varsity for him. He met a girl later that year and forget about me.
When I made it to varsity, I was shocked during the second week of varsity when I found out he and the girl were beginning to go out. I was crushed. I spend the whole of my freshgirl year and the beginning of this year getting over him, and though I’ve come a long way, I’m still getting over him in a few ways. But after him, I said I was done with boys, and though I was halfway joking, now I wonder how serious I actually was. So, for a while now, I’ve been asked if I was lesbian multiple times by many people. Just the way I live and wear clothes. Each time, I’ve answered with a resounding, “No.” I didn’t even need to think about it. I grew up as a Christian; being lesbian was a sin, simple as that. Then I started to loose interest in boys. Started to feel nothing. No feelings for them anymore.
What complicated things was that halfway through the first semester, I started to notice a really hot guy in the caurse above me and was…attracted to him. Then, a couple of days later, I began to develop a huge crush on a guy in my class. When I first realized it, I was shaken to my core, and told myself that there was no way. It wasn’t possible. Though, a week or two later, I ended up giving up on him.(lost interest. Having no feelings at all) and accepting the fact that I might be lesbian. In fact, I embraced it.
But now, I realize that I am totally into no boys anymore. But, for some reason, I am confused about boys. I don’t like them, but I don’t know if that’s because I haven’t met the right one yet (that crashed and burned) or if I am not attracted to them at all. I assumed I was and puberty kind of let me know that at first, but now I am disgusted at the thought of ever pursuing a relationship with one. But really, I want to know if I am lesbian or straight. I’ve heard of lesbian people that have one exception for a boy, but I don’t think that’s what this is. Because I still regret not being able to date the boy I was infatuated with, I don’t know if that’s because that’s just a part of life or something and I’m lesbian or if I’m actually straight. And sometimes, when I’m at school, I struggle to not look at boys the same way I used to, but I don’t know what that means, either.
I really want to just be able to say I’m lesbian, but I don’t know for sure. I know I like guys, but girls are…? After all of my research, I know that I show all the signs of a lesbian person and I’m at peace with that, but there isn’t as much focus on straight person in research so I don’t know if that’s what I am.
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