> "Friends and family often find such identities flat-out strange and assume that it’s all some kind of postadolescent phase or that something is seriously wron

> "Friends and family often find such identities flat-out strange and assume that it’s all some kind of postadolescent phase or that something is seriously wrong." I'm no expert on sexuality, but I do know that if I had written down half the shit I was thinking when I was that age, I would not be the least bit surprised if my friends and family thought I was a nutjob.