Hi, I (21M) came out as bi just over a year ago but I’ve probably known deep down for At least 2 years. And I really just wanna share my experience. I wouldn’t really call myself a very sexual or romantic person, and as a kid I only really had platonic interests in other people (I rarely developed “crushes”). However, as I grew up I started to be attracted to women and I thought I was straight for my entire teenage years. Then, suddenly, one day I met a guy and began to feel these feelings for him. This was very very confusing for me because these feelings were familiar, yet until then I only ever felt them for girls. Over the years since then I began to find men attractive more and more as I grew more curious of this part of me, but it was only recently that curiosity turned into comfort.

Nowadays I know exactly what I am, I’m bi. And I feel this amazing sense of pride and empowerment every time I repeat it to myself. I’m in absolute amazement at the fact I experience both ‘straight’ and ‘gay’ attraction and I’m not limited to a single gender. It really feels like I have the best of both worlds, which has been a theme for me my entire life.

I also feel like men and women are two completely different experiences (in terms of how attraction towards them feels). Both genders make me feel different ways and invoke different responses in me, which I think is fascinating and really cool.

So yeah, being bi is awesome and I wouldn’t trade it for anything else, cus it’s who I am… and it’s awesome :)

Ooh, and another thing is, I’ve struggled a bit with the “bi-cycle” (only sometimes) in the past, which has been the cause of a lot of my more recent confusion. I’ve literally been like “oh damn I’m straight after all” one day and then literally the next day I’ve been like “maybe I’m actually gay”. However I kinda know how to tackle that issue now, I literally just reassure myself like “yo, no matter how you feel right this second, you’re very evidently bisexual” or something like that. I’m curious to hear how the bi-cycle has affected other people and how they felt.