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Well I knew between the ages of 6-8 also. The first time I actually told someone I was bi, I was about 10 years old. At first, I was still more attracted to guys, but now I am so attracted to females in everyway that I do wonder if I am gay. I am 20 years old, will be 21 in February. I remember watching Titanic(probably around 3rd grade) growing up and I couldn't keep my eyes off of Kate Winslet's naked body. I felt this tingling between my legs. I was told not to look, but I totally peeked from behind my fingers and I have been completely enamored with the Female form ever since.

Great Question by the way!

I have sort of always liked girls because guys were mean to me and my friends when I was little. But I never knew there was a term for liking the same sex when I was little. Untill I was in 4th grade I moved schools and there was this one girl that I couldn't keep my eyes off of. And one day I was playing basketball with some of my friends and she called me to come here. I told her no because I was playing so then she walked over to me and grabbed my wrist. That one little touch meant so much to me. I blushed and I had to look away. Now she is my best friend and I still like her, just from that little touch. ( I was 8 and now I'm 14) and that was when I knew I was bi.

Wow. You sound like me. I knew I was different from my friends when I was a small child. I grew up in a small town and deep in the church. Gay people were always referred to in a negative way. I thought to crushes I had on my friends were normal, but pretended to like boys to fit in. I joke that my family knew I was gay before I did. My mom would always say that I was marching to the beat of my own drum. I didn't want to be a cheerleader like her, but I did like watching them. I didn't want to get my hair highlighted or my nails done. I was living in my own dream world. The only males I was attracted to somewhat had soft, female features.

I continued on like this until I was about 18 when I kissed my best friend at the time. It was to mess with her boyfriend but I didn't care. Still I thought I was straight. It was something girls did all the time. I didn't think I could be gay because the only lesbians I knew of where the butchy types shown on tv. Although I was something of a tomboy, I didn't dress in flannel and I was starting to like makeup. Could I be bi?

My first girlfriend was introduced to me on my 19th birthday. I didn't have many friends and was stuck at home. My mom suggested I go across the street to meet the new neighbors. The youngest daughter was a year older than me and beautiful. We ended up moving out together and were happy for a while. But we grew apart and decided to move back in with our parents. Even then I still thought I was BI.

My uncle Mark came out to me around this time and made it easier for me to feel like I wasn't going to Hell. But I continued to date men while having silent crushes on the women around me. I met a guy through work and he became my boyfriend of 2 1/2yrs and later my daughter's father. I told him I was BI when I met him and he, unlike many other guys, was bothered by it. We loved each other but I never felt quite right. I still care about him and love the way he loves our daughter.

I began to realize something was different when I was 7 months pregnant. I came out to my closest friends and after Avery was born started going to gay clubs more often. I loved it! I opened up to a new life. I told my mom and wore rainbows whenever I could. I don't go around screaming out to the world but I do wear a rainbow bracelet proudly.

Well, I first thought I was bisexual when I was in the 5th grade. But as I got older I noticed that guys just seemed to disappear. Just earlier this year I figured out that I am a lesbian.

ah... when I was 6-8, I didn't realize it was a matter of my sexual preference, so I won't say that age. I was around 10 when I first thought, "I think I like girls the way boys like girls" and 12 when I learned the actually terminology. By 14 I figured I wasn't bi, but a lesbian instead.

Thanks everyone for replaying its always good to let others know more about each other.

Also because others described more about when they first knew well back to what I said earlier I first knew when I was about 6-8 years old so around the late 1980's. I went camping at a beach with my uncle and a lot of my cousins mainly to swim with some wild dolphin's that come by this beach. But I think what I didn't really know was that this beach was a nude beach. So I myself were exposed to nudity of both male and female at a young age. So I just knew and I have ever since then.

yeah I was about 6 or 7 I think when I first realized I had feelings towards other girls. I was the kind of little girl that always ran around and played with the boys but I did have a best friend named Jessica. I just thought she was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. Of course since I was so young I just thought I felt like that because she was my best friend. Then again in about 8th grade I had a crush on a good friend of mine and that was when I really started thinking I was bisexual. I liked this girl throughout high school also but was just too scared to tell her because she was straight. I remember whenever she would get a new boyfriend and I would just come home from school and cry lol. From that point on there were a few other girls and boys that I had feelings for but I always had her in the back of my mind. It took me a long time to just come to terms with the fact that I'm gay. I haven't told any of my family because I'm just the kind of person who feels like that's just something too personal and a bit strange to discuss with my family so I've always just tried to convince them that I'm straight. But my friends have been helping me to open up more. Now I have a lot of gay friends and they all know about me. We all go out to a gay club on the weekends too and my family knows I go so in their minds they all probably do know about me lol its just something we dont talk about.

I'm 20 now and I'm still not out to many of my close friends but maybe in time I will be able to tell them and they can accept me for who I am. Now I'm really just trying to get out and hang with more people like me and honestly thats when I'm happiest.

I kinda figured out but didn't really fully understand that I was bisexual during 1st grade.
During one of our play times at school my friends and I were playing in the field and the older kids who had their break just before us had left a lunch bag by one of the benches. So my friends and I opened it up, and it was a bunch of photos that were clipped out of a dirty magazine. I took one home and kept it in a special place so I could look at it whenever I wanted to. I didn't know why I liked looking at it, but I knew that for some reason looking at it made me feel good.
After that I continued liking boys and went out with a couple, but during HS I became interested in girls, and finally acted on it after I graduated.

I knew for sure when I was 16 because I fell in love with my best friend.. But I think I subconsciously knew when I was like 5 or 6. I didn't know what gay was so I didn't put a label on how I was feeling I guess. I used to watch Baywatch all the time when I was little and I thought Caroline was beautiful. I liked her a lot.