My sexuality keeps fluctuating and I'm not sure I fit into one single box, how do I explain that to others when I don't know how to feel about it myself?
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Updated: Nov 2, 2020
youaintslicc
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Mar 12, 2019
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I have been in this situation before and it did take a while for me to fully understand who I am as a person. Take time for yourself to find out who you are and who you really want to be. When you feel 100% confident in who you are, you can choose to come out to people. It may be scary, but once you feel comfortable with who you are, others will see you as who you are too. Do not try to rush yourself to figure out who you are yet. Take it a day at a time, and soon you will find out who you truly are.
psystudent25
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May 7, 2019
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You don't have to explain yourself to anyone. And you shouldn't feel bad about feeling this way. You need not to label yourself and if you feel like you do or really want to, you don't have to or need to do it right away. Take time to figure yourself out or don't. Live your life the way you want it to and not how others want you to. In the end, its not their happiness and contentment on the line, its yours. Love is free and it is beautiful when you learn to accept it just the way it is. It knows no gender, no age and no race. It just is.
Anonymous
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Sep 7, 2020
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Sexuality is an ever fluctuating and evolving experience. I don't think that many people necessarily fit into a single box-- it's complex, we're not meant to sit and live in a box. We may identify as one way right now, but later on feel that we align with another identity altogether. It's entirely okay to say I'm working on figuring out myself, and where I fit into this spectrum. We're ever evolving as people and with that, we may not always have the words that we're looking for to adequately express what feels right at this moment. And that's 100% okay to not know
supportiveHeart7689
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Oct 13, 2020
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You don't need to explain yourself to others - if you feel as though you trust a person enough to discuss your sexuality and you want to speak about it then you can tell them your sexuality is fluid, or that you are still working it out. Or tell them how you feel that day and tell them it has changed the next - whatever you feel comfortable with.
If you don't know or trust the person enough for them to be asking about it - you can tell them it's none of their business.
Sexuality doesn't need to fit into a single box, you can change your mind any time and you definitely don't need to label yourself.
Anonymous
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Nov 2, 2020
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Us humans like to categorize people and it makes it seem like you have to choose the box of best fit, but you don't. I have a friend who says they don't really have any labels and everyone else just has to deal with it.
I started questioning my identity back in middle school and at first, I had no clue what label to use. I ended up using Queer for a while and then Bisexual. Later in high school, I decided that Pansexual better fit my definition of myself. Right now I'm wondering if I may be Demi or Ace. People change!
One thing I've learned though is that you will find the people who really love you because they are the ones who stick with you no matter how many times you change your label. Also, I get to decide what the label means to me, the label doesn't decide who I am. I tend to be more sexually attracted to men but romantically attracted to women (weird right?) and I have yet to find a nice label for that so I'm sticking with Pan. (When I first noticed this trend, I was so confused, like, is that even valid?)
TL:DR Give it time, you might find a box, you might not, but the most important thing is being honest with yourself.
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