Looking back at your childhood, Did you feel different from your peers?

Question

Looking back at your childhood, Did you feel different from your peers?

Answer 1

waaaay different.

Answer 2

Yes... always.

Answer 3

yes, i always have, and still do.

Answer 4

Holy c**p yeah!!

Everybody started to like boys, and I was left feeling confused as to why that was so.

Well, other then that not really, but I was just a really confused young girl.

Answer 5

Yep, and I still do.  

Answer 6

Definitely.

I can almost pinpoint it to when I had a great teacher who would let me talk to her about what had been in the newspaper the day before instead of making me play childish games during recess. We would talk about world events and politics. At the time, I was 10.

A few years later, other boys began to have an interest in girls... and I began to have an interest in boys that went beyond playing games or sports. I told myself it was a phase. The phase lasted through middle school... through high school,,, and into college. I finally realized that this part of me was not a phase and was a part of who I am... just like me preferring to talk with my 5th grade teacher instead of playing kickball.

Answer 7

Saying yes would be a complete understatement.

Answer 8

yessss.

i was just totally different now that i look back,,

but at the time it wasnt so bad,,

because elementary school kids are so excepting of one anotherr,,

honestlyy we should learn some things from them.

Answer 9

Yes, for as long as I could remember!

The girls would wear dresses and play with dolls and other girls and the boys would play roudy tag games and play with hotwheels and I was a tomboyish girl who played with the boys but after a bit I didn't fit in anywhere. I felt like a boy deep down but the fact that I also liked boys confused me, I knew boys tended to like girls who liked girly things so whenever I wanted to impress a boy I'd feel lots of inner turmoil because part of me knew that they liked girls so I supressed some of the real me but at the same time I wanted to appear very masculine and I was a very confused child.

I also got upset over every single thing since I had obsessive-compulsive disorder and I developed social anxiety and I was never a happy kid so I was awkward and picked on lots and very quiet, with no friends.

To this day I still feel drastically different from everyone else but I'm more self-aware and less oblivious to the world so I'm better off I suppose, though my feelings of anxiety and being in the wrong body only became extremely high and unbearable during puberty which led to very unfun periods of depression. -shakes head-

It all kind of lead to me having a really bad inferiority complex, which only became worse throughout the years but I'm in therapy now so I'm getting a bit better.

in short: yup, lots.

lol, in short: yes.

Um... yup.

Answer 10

I went to a religious school (I am Jewish) and when I told my "friend" that I thought I was attracted to girls and boys, she told EVERYONE, and no one would talk to me; it made my middle and high-school years miserable. Before that, I didn't really feel different - I guess it's when the hormones kicked in that it started. But I do regret spending those years as an outcast, not because those people didn't talk to me, but because I only learned to love myself much, much later.

Answer 11

Yup! My brother used to pick on me. He was 2 years older than me, he really used to beat me up sometimes. He'd call me g*y and stuff (and this was at age like... 7... before I even knew I was g*y, and I didn't like boys or girls lol... It was just the thing to say to insult people back then) and I remember one part of my life where he threw this huge rock at me and I had to get like 9 stitches.

I think because of that I always felt different. It instilled thoughts of "but what if I am g*y?" Those thoughts later made coming out really difficult for me. However, I do know for certain that I've always felt extremely different compared to everyone else.

Answer 12

Yes, definitely...I however found out later that I really wasn't as different form others as I had thought

Answer 13

Absolutely!

Answer 14

Oh Yes I remember I did a project on flowers in 3rd grade when all the other boys did cartoon characters or sport figures..lol I got 3rd place for so I don't care.

Also I was so into the whole jump rope double dutch thing while all the other guys played kickball except me and my other "g*y" friend..lol those were good times.

Answer 15

Yes at the exact moment when all the girls had crushes on all the guys and I didn't understand why I didn't have one.

Answer 16

The only thing that I felt different about is that I never went boy crazy like all my friends did. It's funny though, I mean I was aware of this, but it never concerned me, and then one day I just got it.

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Answer 17

Yes, all the time. I hated it.  

Answer 18

Totally, and i have to say that i feel really sorry for those kids that are going through that now because it was a hard time in my life where i had no idea what was going on. fortunately i met the right people and i read the right books and now I'm all ok. But d**n it was hard getting here