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Ann ([personal profile] capri0mni) wrote in [community profile] queerly_beloved 2020-01-07 04:17 pm (UTC)

Same. It would have made the during college years easier to navigate, too. ;-)

"Queer Studies" didn't start emerging on college campuses until after I'd left school, but if I'd had the chance to read the course description in my course catalog as a Freshmen, I probably would have signed up for at least one class as an elective, even though I identified as Straight, back then, simply because I'm a sucker for the intersection of art, culture, and politics.

...And if I had been able to take such a course, I might have realized I wasn't straight a lot earlier, even if I took longer to understand my Ace/Aro orientation.

(Aside: like most people my view of heterosexuality was based on my parents' relationship, but looking back on their lives now [after they've both died], I think they were both on the ace/aro spectrum -- at least, demi- -- themselves. So-o-o... yeah. My calibration was way off from the beginning)

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