AS A YOUNG CHILD I THOUGHT BISEXUAL WAS THE DEFUALT FOR HUMANITY
I was 7. Just a we little lad living life as a little kid in the stinkiest city in Texas. You could say I was pretty sheltered not in a my dad "doesn't want me to know about the guys because I was a young child" but because my dad was subtlety a "you can't date anyone until your 30" dad. He didn’t talk about the idea of me dating girls or boys. Hedidn'tt even put it in my head that I wasn't allowed to date girls and boys. He just didnt talk about it.
So I didn't know what the word gay was. I heard the word a lot, but I didn't know what the context was. In fact, because of the way I heard people use the word gay I thought it was an insult. Until my 3rd grade teacher,you see, in class, a kid would just randomly yell the word "gay!" And the whole class would laugh, and sometimes me not wanting to feel left out would laugh with them.
Then, one day, my 3rd grade teacher had enough and marched right on over to the bookshelf in class(off topic but that woman every single day wore long school appropriate bodycon dresses and heels everyday I don't know how she was doing that everyday while looking after like 30 8-9 year olds) she pulled out the dictionary and read the definition of gay "gay means being happy"(I wasnt going to go to a dictionary to look it up so its not word for word).
OK. Weird that being happy is being used as an insult.
Back to the topic In my head I thought of us like animals(which we are) i was like "dogs are with other dogs fish with fish so humans can be with other humans" i didnt use the word girl or boy. I was just like "well we're all human, so it's only natural we be with other humans" like im pretty sure when I saw a boy i know be friendly with another boy at like 7 I thought "they'd be pretty cute together " or when my best friend in second grade kissed me I wasnt even thinking "wait do I even like girls?" I just shrugged and thought "ok this is happening, " and kissed her. I don't even think I had a crush on her. That sounds terrible thinking back on it, but I was 7.
One time I had a crush on a boy for like 2 years in the elementary school and I was like (using fake names) "I don't stand a chance with Mathew he obviously has his eyes set on jake" when in reality Mathew was most likely straight. (I do apparently live in a red state. When history when I was around the same age I thought bisexuality was the default and they started talking about are history and like the political parties my first thought was "logically we're all democrats" and i assumed my family were all democrats. Tho does this make my dad more of a chill republican if I didn't know he was a republican for like 11 years?.
Then, for some reason, when I learned more about the words, I was like, "im definitely straight." I still didn't fully grasp the words or the definition of those words obviously because I wasn't even in denial about liking both boys and girls. Also, I didn't come out because I thought it was stupid. In my head I'm like "I don't owe you a thing" because to me coming out felt like an explanation and I don't need to explain myself if I came home with a boy why should I have to explain myself when I come home with a girl.
I was still in that "oh we're all humans its natural " mindset (I still am, but I know that not everyone is willing to go for someone just cause they are another human)
Tho, with my niece, I learned that every child is different because, like me, they were sheltered like me not because of the whole "you cant date till your 30" we just dont talk about stuff like that. But unlike me, instead of thinking everything is default bisexual they homophobic and a little sexist. None of us knew where this came from because we don't talk about stuff like this she wasnt in school yet(it was 99% that tablet of her and random YouTube videos). They ended up being a lesbian and non binary.
So I guess I thought bisexual was the default because I was a human who just so happened to fall under the bisexual umbrella and assumed if im into every human than its the same for all humans.
And I definitely wasn't being "indoctrinated " if I didn't even know what the word gay meant