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   rose (escaped not sanitized) (rose_on_mars@dice.camp)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 01:35:17 JST rose (escaped not sanitized)

   I don't think high school would have been any better if I was out.

   But finding out earlier in my life that I wasn't the only girl perceived as a boy might have helped.

   #trans #queer

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 01:35:16 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @Rose_On_Mars High school would not have been easier if I was out. In fact, I *could* have come out as bisexual in high school but it wouldn't have given me any boys to date and would have exposed me to violence. It was so much so that it was easier to just not think about liking boys. But if the world had been safe for me to come out earlier in adulthood, I'd have done that in a heartbeat.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 03:27:16 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @Rose_On_Mars In my case, I *knew*. But knowing it was unsafe, so I eventually turned it into "I'm straight, but did this one thing this one time..." And, of course, I never talked about it.

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     rose (escaped not sanitized) (rose_on_mars@dice.camp)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 03:27:17 JST rose (escaped not sanitized)

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman

     @roadriverrail

     I was unclear on "bisexual" as well.

     I didn't realize until substantially later that the "sempai, notice me!" thing I had on a slightly older Forensics Club teammate was a heterosexual crush.