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When Questioning Your Sexual Identity Feels Like Losing Yourself

I've been questioning my sexuality for months but I'm scared to explore it because what if I lose my identity as a straight person and everything that comes with it.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The possibility of authentic desire threatens the stability of constructed identity and the social benefits of heterosexual assumption.

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.