Personal mythology

[fpb]

Everything I find written about practicing homosexuals intimates that they were aware of their "difference" from an early age, and certainly from their teens. But in my own experience, the two homosexual men I knew best only turned to their own sex in their mid-twenties, after considerable experience with women. And I would like to be sure that this business of young teens being already gay is not a matter of retrojection and personal mythology. After all, there has hardly ever been a teen-ager who did not feel "different".

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[fellmama.livejournal.com]

I have read it, multiple times, and have no quarrel with your assessment. If they'd known the words, Piggy would have been just as dead for being a faggot as for being fat and slow.

[fpb.livejournal.com]

So why do you insist on treating the symptom as though it were the disease?