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Attraction is a Spectrum
What to do when feeling a strange pull towards someone
I remember walking into my seventh grade classroom and seeing him. At the time, I wasn’t aware of the unconscious processes working in the background, but I knew that this dude I was looking at and I would be friends.
Sure enough, we did become friends and still are. And yet, I’ve only heard of this type of story in a romantic context. Man sees woman and he knows without a shadow of a doubt that they’re meant to be, and sure enough, they were.
If we want to be militant about it, it wasn’t romantic love at first sight. But there was an intuitive knowing at first sight and I used to question if there were some latent feelings there.
I didn’t have any evidence to suggest that that was true, plus as far as I knew I was heterosexual. But to connect with someone platonically with such insight was unheard of, so I questioned my sexuality.
I have another friend who isn’t straight but when we interact with one another, people tend to ship us together. She’s a great person and if sexualities or sexes were different, that could be a conversation.
But it goes no further than friendship, yet it leaves people scratching their heads.
