Growing up I was not interested in boys or girls. I mean I had crushes but I was super afraid to date as I wasn’t out of the closet yet. I didn’t really form or have any romantic relationships.

Cue now, when I am 25 I have recently begun to have real crushes and actual interests in dating women but I feel so behind in everything. I don’t like telling my friends about my crushes because to them I seem obsessive when in reality a lot of what I’m going through is what I’ve seen the average teenager already tackle. I never worked through the whole process of romance, having a crush, maybe dating that person and so on and so forth.

It feels isolating because I’m on a different level than what I think people would expect of my age and it’s kind of embarrassing. Just needed to vent