So I came out to my parents as asexual when I was 13 (which didn’t go well because my parents cannot fathom not having sexual attraction. Don’t worry. They still don’t understand but they don’t have bad reactions now, so..). But anyways, my mom then started, I guess, doing research or maybe figured this out from me talking, I don’t know, but she figured out she was bi.
You want to know why she didn’t realize before? Because she thought everyone was bi. Kinda like how if you’re not deadly allergic to something but it makes your mouth itchy so you just assume everyone’s mouth gets itchy (me with bananas). But how could you not notice other people around you don’t like the same gender?
My mom grew up Mormon. They were against gay people and told them it was wrong. Which my mom and most of the rest of my immediate family also think is bullshit (fuck you Steven). But this is why she thought everyone was bi. Because they had to tell people. She figured that everyone must experience this because why else would they have to be told not to? She still thinks that the majority of people are bi for the same reason. But she now knows that some people are in fact straight.
So me coming out led my mom to realize that she was bi and that other people were not.
