shrewd hinge
Please, I want to hear other people’s experiences, because I’m in the mental state of having a mental crisis of trying to figure out mine
Update (1.12.22): I’m not having mental crisis anymore, but I’m still basically mentally confused of my sexuality
ember mica
I don't know about others but mine was actually really difficult. I thought i was pan for awhile since i thought i liked everyone. I couldn't imagine not being able to love someone. Little did i know i was just feeling platonic feelings. The thing that helped me was i thought about who i was (sexually, yes its weird but) attracted to and romantically attracted to and focused on those aspects. I am now demiromantic! Which means i don't usualy feel romantic attraction unless i am close to the person. And i mean close. Hope this helps! Good luck.
shrewd hinge
I don't know about others but mine was actually really difficult. I thought i wa...
Thank you for your story : ^)
gloomy bobcat
Mmmmm sexuality discussion 
mine was honestly me sitting down one day and trying to figure out whether I liked women and men or if I only liked one romantically and the idea of the other. After learning about the wonderful and, quite frankly confusing (to me) world of sexualities, I thought i was Pan but then realized I was just getting super heavy envy from those who were able to pull of the non-binary look and I wasn't actually romatically attracted to them. So far i've settled on Bisexual but really, you shouldn't feel like you have to rush figuring out who you like and what labels you should use. I suggest just taking some time to get to know yourself, what your type is and maybe what an ideal relationship or partner looks like to you. Anyways good luck! 
vast heron
i found out i was bisexual
shrewd hinge
i found out i was bisexual
Fair
ember mica
Figuring out my sexuality was a huge mess. But I think the process started when I realized i wasn't as interested in men as i thought, which led to being comfortable with my attraction to women. I still don't know how attracted to men I am, but after befriending some non-binary folks, i found out i like that category too (depending on the presentation/expression)
I played around with the bisexual label, but now I simply call myself queer for the sake of simplicity
The vague-ish label is also because I like the idea of a romantic relationship, but idk if I could actually handle it
It's all about self-reflecting and analyzing how you perceive other genders as well as your own
I also want to mention that I experience queerplatonic attraction, which basically means that I like someone more than a standard platonic relationship requires, but it's not romantic in nature either.
vital cloak
Honestly mine is pretty simple. So one of my friends at the time came out as Bi and in the next couple of months other friends did the same. At the same time I started looking into what LGBTQ was. I remember I would ask myself if I was bi like them but something about it never clicked with me. I thought I was Pan for a while, then I thought I was Omni and came out to my friends. After that I realized I didn’t have a preference so I came out again as Pan. The weird thing is I never really had crushes on girls until after I realized I was Pan, but even without having crushes on girls I’ve always had this weird feeling that I was gay. Rn I feel comfortable with being Pan. Also remember, it’s okay to take your time to figure yours out. You don’t need to come out to anyone if you don’t want to and you don’t need to assign yourself a label if you don’t feel comfortable.
karmic rain
Really short but when I was in 5th grade I used to tell people I was lesbian as a joke. Over the next while I came out as trans and bi… I am still attracted to women. I was sort of right all along
sturdy briar
I was hanging with this dude I really enjoyed hanging out with and it hit me how happy it made me to hang out with them, and took me like a year or so to figure out I liked them
humble sphinx
I saw a fictional woman and now I think I'm bi👍
ember mica
i realized in sixth grade that not everyone looked at girls asses in the hallways, so i thought i was a lesbian for a while. but then i was like "well i had 1 (one) boyfriend in fifth grade" so i used bi for a bit (turns out the boyfriend was also queer). then i was like "yknow i dont really care about gender" so i used pan for a bit. but then i was like "yknow i dont wanna fuck anyone actually" so i kind of swapped between panromantic ace and demipanromantic ace. i was also confused abt my gender during that time, so by 10th grade i was pretty much out as panro ace and a closeted maybe-trans-guy-maybe-demiboy-maybe-agender-but-also-maybe-agenderflux?? person. then i went to college and used aroace and agender for a few months, but now theres this goddamn person......... so anyway im a label hoarder and now im identifying with being neptunic, ace, quoiromantic, maybe cupioromantic, and also a demiboy genderfluid agenderflux lmao. :l
gloomy bobcat
Take all the labels, keep a dragons hoard of labels >:)
radiant dove
I fr went “straight, lesbian, bi, pan, nonbinary, omni, pan, omni, pan, what, pan, agender, pronouns r hot, I choose, what, pan, what, pan, demisexual??? yes.”
open oriole
It was- a mess
Barely remember but
It went from me thinking i was asexual
To homoromantic
To Bi
To gay
To bi
To gay AGAIN
To finally Bi
All in the span of 5 years
It took me a lot of time to realize i did like women but it wasnt as obvious for me
narrow cloak
Discovering Your Sexuality. Share Your Stories!
signal cape
i found men and women and thought "mmm yummy" but didnt want to boing em yknow?
past topaz
real
steel fable
female friends Introduced me to BL and said how I looked cute
went from bi male who exclusively liked feminine boys
to a pan trans gender fluid who likes more masculine males
all of this happened in 3 years
shrewd hinge
What 😨💀
nocturne dirge
I'm new to this whole sharing thing.
I just came out as nonbinary, still not sure about whether I'm bi or pan, but this took me about 4-5 years to find out and accept this.
All of my immediate family are cis gendered and straight (I think besides my sister who might be bi) so it was hard for me to accept it, but now I feel gud👍
gloomy bobcat
Hooray for self acceptance 
dry valve
I liked a girl, cried to my mom , and told her. She said she liked me like that for like an hour
calm sun
Bit of a TW(I mention getting hit and stuff a few times) Mine was pretty tough, I didn't really know what gay meant until like the 6th grade, mainly bc of my friend group. (btw not all gays are nice if you didn't know) I really didn't know what was wrong or right to say, bc I was never informed abt this kinda stuff growing up (I live with my oldschool grandparents) so whenever i asked a question or said smth outta pocket (without really knowing what I asked was "offensive") I would get smacked or hit for it, and I didn't know what was wrong. It wasn't until I got literally jumped by my "friends" that I realized, I don't wanna be friends with them anymore. Anyways, 7th grade comes along, I move states, make new friends, and low and behold, I get my first crush who happens to be a girl. I asked my friend abt it (she was bi) and she said that it was normal and that I might be bi-curious. I had several conflicting feelings, and I eventually realized, after many crushes on several different people, that I was pansexual. I came out to my parents in 8th grade, where my papa was very supportive (he has a gay brother, and he doesn't really care what I like as long as I'm safe and happy) my mimi wasn't. She's gotten over it, but I just don't bring it up around her, bc whenever we get into arguments, she'll bring up how I "flaunt it in their faces everyday" My papa has had talks with her abt it and tries to understand LGBTQ+ stuff, but he struggles a little bc he was raised around different values. (He's trying to understand gender identities rn, and he doesn't get it, but he'll still support me no matter what). So that's my story-
silver mantle
Nothing interesting about how I found out, I realized one day that I don’t like being in relationships in general, but the is a story afterwards that’s pretty interesting. Basically in 8th grade some girl thought I was cute and forced me into a relationship. I told her I didn’t like it she ignored me and didn’t respect my personal space. She moved schools and I became more comfortable in my sexuality later on. If mikaylah is in this server, fuck you.
restive perch
It took me a while. I found out about the LGBTQIA+ community from oddly enough deviant art. 💀. I was in the Fnaf and creepypasta phase and it was my first introduction to queer media. And eventually I was like. Oh wait I kinda like girls! I thought I was Bi and I told my parents literally almost immediately. And they were and still are really supportive:)) but eventually after questioning if I actually had a crush on men or if I just chose the guy everyone else seemed to think was conventionally attractive and roll with it. A million labels later I realised that I’ve never really found myself attracted to men. Like I could tell who was conventionally attractive but I never actually was attracted. I was in denial for a while and after a while I told myself. Okay look at any guy you’ve said you’ve had a crush on. Can you picture yourself kissing them? And I couldn’t. And then my brain was like. Okay what about a girl you think is pretty. As you can guess the answer was yes. And I cried for a bit because it felt like I lost any hope of normalcy. (Internalised Homophobia go brrrr) but eventually I accepted it and I’m happy to say I’m a lesbian:))))
hidden prism
when i was 12 i learned i met a bisexual person online. before this i had never even heard of the term or really knew anything about lgbt+ stuff. i wasn’t really close with that person at all but they answered some questions i had like “what does bisexual mean” and stuff like that
few weeks later i start to realize that i’m pretty sure i like girls. i told my closest online friend at time and we talked about it in a really nice conversation (they knew more about the lgbt+ community than me at the time so it was very helpful)
years pass by, i go through lots of struggles and develop internal homophobia towards myself. but after lots of healing, i came to terms with me being a lesbian at around 16 or 17. i’ve been proudly out since last year and i’m perfectly happy with who i am now, 8 years after i first started questioning. today, i currently identify as a lesbian who is probably somewhere on the aromantic spectrum 🏳️🌈
formal patio
So I started questioning my sexuality around a year ago, bc I realized that I kinda didn’t care who I dated, and I was just really confused. I decided to stay unlabeled and just go about my life. As the months went on I started to think I was bi, and I started to get more comfortable with that label. Then I watched jaiden animations “being not straight” video, and realized that she completely summarized my life. And that’s how I figured out that I’m aroace :))
runic matrix
hmm... i wont say it was vary good experience, but it involved a partner that I used to be with, them being very possessive and controlling. kinda a toxic relationship, I mean he was sweet 'n nice at first, but I felt manipulated and ashamed of myself. So i kept myself from seeking out other men for a long while even to this day.
midnight latch
Fyi i didnt know i was trans yet: i had a crush on cara dune in 6th grade and ag the same time i realized i was bi i founc out my mom was. Now i have a masc oriented gender pref bc i dont rly like being in a “straight passing” relationship
digital sky
my sexuality journey has been a rough one. i used so many labels for so long, but now i use bi. for a while, i thought bi meant "attraction to just men and women", which i realized i liked nonbinary people, so i stopped using it, only to find out it meant "attraction to 2+ genders (or attraction to similar and different genders)", so i started using it again. i sometimes have moments where i question if its the right term, probably from internalized biphobia, but im mostly happy with the label