- Date posted
- 1y
I am so scared
I really feel I misunderstood my attraction to men with seeking attention and empathy from them , i have evidences đ
I really feel I misunderstood my attraction to men with seeking attention and empathy from them , i have evidences đ
Yeah, and I'm thinking that I was atracted so several men in the past that were just my friends or though they were cool, now brain says I was really blushing and that it was a romantic feeling, even tho I didn't saw it that way before
@Nicolas:) I really can accept being bi but i canât except being lesbian but it feels like i was always seeking just attention & validation from men I google everything and i found that all my experiences with men were just the case of a lesbian misunderstood her attraction to men with seeking attention from them Yes i have personality disorder, i have a low self esteem, i grow up without a father and yes i like getting a lot of attention & validation from partners but thid doesnt mean im not lesbian I really cant live in this life anymore đ
@star1232 To be honest I was fine with being bi before, but then I stop obssesing about being gay and I started obssesing about being bi
@star1232 Well I mean, why would you looked for the atention of people you are not atracted to? Like I never wanted male atention, maybe some validation from those who I though were cool, more like their aproval, but not their atention
@Nicolas:) Yes me too Now im totally convinced im lesbian
@Nicolas:) Because my case is if i met a guy i thought i had crush on & after knowing that he doesnât suits me , i still want his validation and attention đ
@star1232 Yeah well, almost all the girls I know are like that, and they are straight, the only lesbian I know doesnt really give a shit about what men think about her
@star1232 Lemme guess, lesbian master doc?
@Anonymous - What's a lesbian master doc?
@Nicolas:) No i have never read it I am so scared of reading it too
@Anonymous Because when for example thinking about any of ( who i thought) a crush i really just think about how much they love and perceive me and i feel happy , in other words i think just about their love towards me đ
@star1232 And thatâs a bad thing becauseâŚ?
@Anonymous I just accept being bi ( i dont want to & i dont want to be with a woman tho ) but i just realized that i always did this with men đ simply im just totally a lesbian
@star1232 If lesbian is a label that resonates with you then by all means.
@Anonymous ???
@star1232 You are the only one who gets to define yourself and your experiences. If you interpret them as you never being interested in men and feel like you are a lesbian, then thatâs valid. However, if you donât feel like that captures your experiences, then you donât have to identify as lesbian. Remember that attraction is not objective and is up to our own interpretation.
@Anonymous In my childhood i felt in love with a boy without caring if he loves me or not
@star1232 I remember the moment where i felt that attraction/ love feeling towards him
@Anonymous How do i know if i was interested/ into men ? I have so much things i like about men
@star1232 No one can really dictate what attraction should feel like to you. If you think thatâs an important moment in understanding your sexuality, then no one can go âwell, actuallyâŚâ Itâs your life. Your experiences. Maybe what you felt was love. Maybe it wasnât. No one but you can really say.
@star1232 Again this feels like reassurance (which I do a lot too)
@Anonymous No i cant Seems like you dont understand how an ocd sufferer cant know what is true or wrong
@star1232 Iâm an ocd sufferer myself. And my therapistâs response to all these types of questions is âmaybe, maybe not.â You ask how you know your attractions are real and thereâs not really a definitive answer. You wonât know with 100% certainty.
@star1232 Not enough for who? Who are you trying to prove your desires to?
@Anonymous I know ..
This is a common attack
@Justmesadly I mean you too like male validation & attention!
@star1232 Everyone does
@Justmesadly I know everyone does But my case is different because if i met a guy i thought i had crush on & after knowing that he doesnât suits me , i still want his validation and attention đ
@star1232 I promise someone else has had this experience
@Justmesadly The very slight hope i have is that in my childhood i got attracted & in love with a boy It was a very natural feeling, he was handsome and wealthy but i swear i didnt get attracted to him because of that, it was a natural attraction feeling and I didnât care if he reciprocates my feelings or not , BUT after maybe 2 years i wanted him to love me back and did things to notice me đ¤Śââď¸ Also whenever i am in a relationship with a man I always seek attention & validation so much đđ
Chat GPT told me its more likely comphet than ocd Idk im scared Im scared that if i accept the uncertainty to know the truth once and for all 1) i end up actually turning out to be lesbian 2) I lose the guy i love (or i think i love idk atp) Iâm remembering so many moments of same sex attractions from when i was little Im so scared im so scared Its too much
hi guys i added to list. iâm freaking out i just need some help. signs of comphet (comphet is when lesbians who donât know it and just follow norms and believe there straight) ive felt: âI never felt anything when kissing boys and totally thought that was normal⌠I talk to men, go on dates, but I think itâs to keep my life âinterestingâ and have something to talk about with friends.â ⢠lack of deep, natural emotional connection ⢠⢠talking about my boyfriend to other people made me feel âcoolâ, âworthyâ, âinterestingâ and felt like a way to prove myself ⢠being able to clearly articulate all the reasons I liked a guy crush/my boyfriend (heâs smart, funny, kind, handsome, etc) whereas with a girl crush I canât exactly put my finger on why I like them but Iâm just naturally drawn to them ⢠never missing my exes or feeling heartbroken about them (i would feel sad from being lonely and no longer having that daily routine of having someone to talk to, but didnât necessarily miss that specific person) ⢠i was always very hesitant about âbecoming officialâ with a guy i would be seeing and would make him wait before deciding to date because i âdidnât know if i really liked him or notâ only being aroused by their the manâs desire for me ⢠Thinking I was cooler than other girls because I didn't spend any time thinking about how cute boys were or being "boy-crazy". I was under the impression for a while that I must just be less shallow than other people because I didn't really take looks into account when I had a crush on a boy, I only factored in their personality. chasing the ego boost more than emotional closeness agreed with friends or mom about someone being attractive even if you didnât feel itâanother big flag being bored, ditching serious commitment, chasing the drama again it also feels like iâm acting a lot of the time to make it more romantic cause i cringe When you fantasize about men, it is mostly just enacting a kind of narrative. More focused on movement than features- the men in your fantasies might be faceless or blank-featured or their bodies might symbolize some emotion. you might not even be in the in the fantasy, but instead another faceless woman might be. You might even imagine yourself as the man. The narrative follows the sexual script, but the details are more vague and abstract and might even shift and change throughout the fantasy. i dont care about like what guys looks like. like my sister saw a video of a guy working out and was like got damn omg gotta like that. if i saw that i would prob be like damn to try and prove something to myself but i donât really understand what i should feel it feels like i relate to so much comphet after i read it on reddit and it doesnât even make me want to cry and die anymore. it feels like i tolerate men or have done it for attention or because i thought it was going to happen at some point cause it was what was happening around me like sister and friends. iâm scared ill never find someone i want to marry thatâs a man it feels like itâs all just comphet and i donât want to actually be with a man the more my meds work and anxiety lessens the more the fear feels real because i canât get myself anxious about it anymore. i can about other stuff but not this. i always told myself i donât chase i attract. maybe thats cause i never wanted a big badly enough. maybe what im missing is a girl what if that ends up feeling more real Straight people donât need to talk themselves into whatâs hot. like during the hocd break i would try and like see what was âhotâ and and be like yeah thatâs hot. i also i refused to masturbate to women and not think about it because i didnât want it to prove that i still liked it but i mean idk if that was left over hocd
MY STORY iâve grown up in a mostly supportive family and area and we are not homophobic. i grew up knowing what gay people were and i donât care i grew up not to care. im from nj. my parents are friends with a lesbian couple and we see them once in while. i grew up watching people like joey graceffa whose gay. i also had some school friends that were gay like this kid kevin and this girl elizabeth. i also babysit a little gay boy who likes to dress up as a girl and i always tell him to embrace it and defend him. i wouldnât care if a friend was gay or anything like i wouldnât care if my sister was it would just make me rethink things about myself i think. from a young age i liked male attention and had labeled boys as crushes from my mom says. i dont think i liked girls when i was younger and my mom said it was only guys. but idk maybe there was. However i do remeber hairy men when i was younger would gross me out like with black hair and pale. my mom said every since i was a little girl i would tell her i liked boys. as i got older and in middle school i always wanted guys to want me and think i was funny and pretty and i would get awkward around them and nervous around them. but i remeber i didnât have specific things i found hot or attractive and if someone said something was hot i would just agree and start telling myself it was hot even when i didnât care i just wanted to be cool. then hocd hit at 13-15 during covid where i was so confused. the first time i had hocd i would like not avoid the thoughts i would do a lot of testing to figure it out for hours and hours in diffrent ways and would feel the same arousal and attraction im feeling now. but i remeber wanting to end up straight and try and rule out gay stuff. but it wasnât avoidance i didnt have anything against gay people. when the thoughts were still there i still would only act on stuff with boys. when i first had it i remeber crying to my mom for like a month and i was like whatever sheâs not helping im gonna figure this out by myself. thatâs when i started testing myself for two years. over time it was just there. ofc it was distressing but i donât remember much. slowly when i went to high school it faded because i loved going to parties and flirting with guys and talking about them and thinking what boy am i gonna kiss tonight itâs gonna be a crazy night. when covid ended and we went back to real like i started going to parties and kissing boys. i started dating one boy and we would talk all the time just not really hangout so we broke up because i wanted more male attention and was kinda bored of the relation shop. i started hu with this one boy and like didnât really know if i was into it cause i kinda wanted to hoe around and we were kinda like locked in and i didnât know if i wanted that. so he got the hint i wasnât into it and stopped talking to me moved on to another girl and got popular in the span of like two weeks. after this i was obsessed with him and got all nervous to see him and i always just wanted to be like can we go back to the way we were. we then started to âhateâ eachother and i was so sad all the time he didnât want me anymore and moved on. we hooked up in and off for two years. then i started hooking up with this one kid cause i always thought he was really funny and chill. we hooked up for a little and then i started to get the ick. i then got with like two other boys at parties. so then we stopped talking and i started talking to the âhate eachother kidâ again. we then started dating and heâs my current boyfriend of a little over a year. all these instances made me feel good and i loved the attention and drama. but i struggled with committing with people. i donât know if this all for validation because i loved when men wanted me it gave me an ego boost and still does even if i didnât really want them or couldnât get it to last with a boy. iâm scared it was all for attention and confidence there attention gave me. i liked feeling like a baddie. i liked when the hot funny guys liked me now at 18 itâs back and for six months all i been doing is talking to my mom my sister and my dad about it constantly researching and checking and for those six months i was in a haze of just despair. i was also in erp but it was so bad i couldnât sit with the distress so i didnât make much progress and my pyscuatrust told me to stop for a while until we get my brain right with meds. after three weeks no erp and more meds of seretonin and rexulti i finally donât feel distress or anxious but the feelings of attraction are still there. i thought there supposed to vanish. iâm from nj and from a supportive family and ig supportive environment and friends. iâm 18. and in high school okay so growing up my mo said i only liked guys and would talk about guy crushes and had two celebrity guy crushes. this was all the way up into middle school. then when middle school came around i started liking this guy cause he was funny and popular. then we started dating and everytime he would do something affectionate i would start crying and get so tense and freak out so i broke up with him because he made me so nervous . a year later i still liked him and i got back together with him and the same thing happened so i broke up with him. i think during middle school i liked guys. my mom said i did. i also would get really nervous when any of them would come around to hangout and i wouldnât talk. but i would also just follow what my friends and sister said. if they said a guy was hot i would just agree. i dont know if i actually found them attractive. i still kinda do this to this day. then covid hit for two years. during those two years i was in my house house and got hocd. so i had hocd sexual intrusive thoughts only and had the groinal really bad. but i would still try and have crushes on guys and think i did. but my hocd also attached itself to one of my pretty friends who was a girl. it made me have a lot of sexual thoughts that i would masturbate to about her. it was about her waist and stuff and it made me loose myself. before hocd me and her were bestfriends and really close and im not sure if i had feelings for her. i mean i was always jealous cause all the guys always wanted her and thought she was pretty. then we got out of covid and i was now in high school. the hocd slowly faded my freshman year. in the begining of freshman year there was this tall brunette guy who i started talking too for months and started dating and i would get all nervous when he came around. i really liked him and enjoyed talking to him. then we broke up cause we never hung out. after that for the next two years i developed what i thought two be two genuine crushes. i would make out with cute guys at parties for the experience and to add cute guys to my kids list. basically hocd was gone but i did this one thing sometimes i did is i would always try to prove i was straight to my mom. like if we were watching tv i would say a guy was hot. i didnât want her to think i was gay even though she wouldnât care at all but i would do this because she was the only one i would talk to about my sexual intrusive thoughts and feelings. i was hooking up with my guy best friend but then started to looses interest but he was still obsessed. one day he caught on i wasnât into it started hanging out with older people and going to there parties and started hooking up with this older girl. i got super jealous and heartbroken cause he didnât care about me. i donât know if this heartbreak and crying was because he got popular, he wasnât giving me attention, we werenât friends anymore or because i actually liked him. i always had a thing for him after this. i started going to the older people parties and i always wanted to see him there and make him jealous. one and half years later we started talking again and we started dating. once we started dating we started having sex. almost every time or most of the time i finish when he eats me out, we have actual sex or if weâre just humping. we say i love you and stuff. ths first six months we would do everything together like just little shopping trips or whatever. we were always hanging out. then it started to dial down and i started getting annoyed with him sometimes which my mom and sister said was normal. but i still said love you and we would hangout and have sex but idk. i would have thoughts like we arenât going to last because heâs not smart enough, and sometimes my mom would say this too. but she would also say how much he loved me and how he was such a sweet guy and how he would do anything for me. but idk i just wouldnât feel it. like i still showed pda and did like him. would a lesbian who didnât know it yet likely date a guy for a year and a half at 18, have sex like once a week, have orgasmed during penetration, creamed, squirted finished by his hands and mouth then hocd hit again. this time much worse. it was even stronger it felt like with the feelings. the first three months i was in this haze and was crying everyday that i might be gay and how i really really really didnât want to be. i still have hocd and im in therapy and on medication. i cant tell if my attraction to men is real. my mom says it is and she knows me and im not gay and ive shown genuine excitement about guys. my sister says the same thing. but it feel like ive convinced myself ive been doing it to fit in. the thoughts got bad and ive told my mom my sister my dad and ive told three friends. my mom and sister ive told the details too or the intrusive thoughts and false attraction. iâve always found women attractive and i find it easier to find them attractive like physically but never felt this way can i conclude im not lesbian? or like is it likely my attraction to men hasnât been genuine
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