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When Your Family Dismisses Your Sexual Identity as Attention-Seeking

I'm attracted to people regardless of gender but when I try to explain pansexuality to my parents they act like I'm making up words to be special.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The need for family validation collides with generational differences in understanding identity complexity and language evolution.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Sexual orientation as identity?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.