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Realising at 18

Storyteller: Lorraine
Age: 51
Identity: Bisexual and non-binary (agender)

For sexuality, I don’t know if it was one specific person [that made things click]. The initial realisation was one specific person and realising that somebody at art college, that I was two weeks into obsessing over, I didn't just want to be her friend. And I can't believe I was 18 before I realised. And then I thought back through all my obsessions as a young teen, and even when I was younger, it was sort of like, "oh my god, none of that was wholesome at all." And I totally didn't realise.