i have no where else to put these thoughts so they are going here
So like. I use the term bisexual, ācause I think thatās the best word we have currently in common parlance, but I am fucking *terrified of people*
Iām not asexual, not in the slightest, thatās not something Iāve ever had to question; no matter how much mom tried and still tries to kind of nudge me away from any semblance of intimate maturity or sexuality I am adamantly aware of what interests me and what I like in regards to my own body
Itās always the other people thatās the catch
Iāve been manipulated and taken advantage of several times, especially because I was too young to know any better, and the through line for all of these situations were (in most cases older) women trying to make me emotionally dependent on themā much in the same way my mom tries to keep me emotionally dependent, but these other women would add sex, servitude, other things into it
It was always about what I could do for them, what I meant to them, what I looked like and how I sounded, and Iām sure a certain portion of it was because of my intersex condition, because some of these women went on to chase trans people and other intersex people
Not all women are like this of course but the end result of this means I always feel safer around men or masculine presenting people or butch women
Thereās so much stupid online discourse I canāt and wonāt even try to keep up with about... pretty much everything to do with identity and labels and who can do what, and I donāt want anything to do with it, but Iām terrified that no matter what I do Iām already politicized just for being who I am and not being a dead medical specimen on a rack somewhere
Am I less of a bisexual because I find myself almost solely attracted to masculine presentation (regardless of gender identity) because I canāt handle having feminine attention directed at me? I am externally perceived as a women by others in most cases except for when I am not, and what does that mean for me and those Iād be interested in? What does it mean for my partner? What does any of this shit have to do with me???