#i looked through a lot of the things i said circa 2014-2015 (the pre-tumblr era)

[rubberbandballqueen]

not being able to remember when or how i figured out i was asexual is so wild bc i think for the most part, i tend to credit tumblr with most of that (like tumblr was DEFINITELY my first exposure to trans stuff, so it kind of makes sense that i'd have also learned abt asexuality from here too), but now i'm digging through like ancient social media where i used to hang out n bother my sister's friends, and now i'm like. "hang on. did i learn abt asexuality from them??"

like it would probably make sense since they were pretty queer, and since i was still in middle school (bothering high schoolers i had yet to meet in person) at the time, i technically still learned abt all this stuff online. but it's still kind of like, "oh! i'd forgotten that there were gay teenagers around me in real life at that time and age, too"