09-05-2016, 10:37 PM
LJay Wrote:Being gay has been a profound influence on my psychological makeup. Since I am constantly addled these days, the question is very difficult to consider. My poor old brain finds it hard to imagine a straight me. I can see that it would be just as difficult for the straight people with whom I have been closest to see themselves as gay. We are who we are. From my college days, I have attempted to achieve being true to my own self. That self is gay. I think, Emiliano, that the only really good answer for your question in my case, could come from someone else. I am not sure I have the tools.
I shall be following this thread carefully and hoping very much that certain people on the forum have a good try at answering the question.
Thank you for thinking about it. It is a really weird question I guess, a lot of what if and all that. I'm one of those people who think experience plays a major role in how we develop and become the people we are at any given moment. So in that sense I can see how being straight would alter me a lot because I'd have had different experiences. But in terms of what a straight me would be like, it's a difficult thing to imagine.
You did say that being gay has had an influence on your psychological makeup though - in what ways? What has being gay made you more attuned to? Maybe what have you learned or been exposed to that was a result of being gay and the experiences that came from that?
If you feel up to it - if not, you just observing what others say is fine with me too.