The older I got, the less confident I felt in how well I knew myself, and the more I looked outward for anything that might provide clues. In retrospect, maybe I should have known who I was the first time I went looking for a quiz called “Am I gay?” But I didn’t. The selection of sexuality quizzes available on today’s internet is vast. But when I first looked, in 2010, desperate for answers to my perpetual singlehood, online quizzes were still surprisingly amateurish, often using irregular font sizes and clip art. I remember politically incorrect and leading questions, such as “When you think about the type of person you want to marry, do they have short hair, like a man, or long hair, like a woman?” One quiz took my lack of interest in driving a pickup truck as definitive evidence that I was not, in fact, a lesbian. I remember knowing what the answer would be before finishing every quiz it was always exactly what I wanted it to be. If I took a quiz seeking reassurance I was straight, I would get it. ![]() If I took a quiz wanting to be told I was gay or bisexual, that would be the conclusion. But no result ever felt true enough for me to stop taking quizzes.Įventually, I gave up. And I figured that if I were anything but straight - anything but “normal” - I would have known when I was much younger.
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