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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who say they knew when their kid was 4 or 6 or whatever -- how? Is it just that they acted different from their siblings and had different interests? I'd like to think it isn't the stereotypical -- he's a boy but he won't play with trucks or sports and he'd rather play with an ez-bake oven, but is that what it was? [/quote]

Hmmm ... I don't know what it was specifically when he was a little boy. He was very active, very into sports, happy to play cars. He has two sisters and was equally happy to play with their stuff, playing house, etc., but he'd always dump them if a little neighbor boy came by to go ride bikes or play ball. He had very specific opinions about his clothes and hair, but also had no problem going outside and getting as dirty as all the other boys.

But I do remember telling him when he was 7, there's a word for when boys like boys and girls like girls, in the way that makes your heart happy and you think you want to marry them, and that word is gay. I remember how his whole body relaxed and then happiness washed over his face, to know this feeling that's different from everyone else, has a name. That kind of confirmed it for me, and DH then made it a point to point out gay men who were happy and successful in life, so he'd see people like himself in grownup form. One time he was home sick in middle school and watching rerun after rerun of Will & Grace. He turned to me and said "I don't want to be like Jack when I grow up. I want to be like Will." [/quote]

You don't know if you are gay that early. You know after puberty. Saying that he should be with men is going to confuse him. Wait until afterer puberty when the hormones kick in. [/quote]

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