Ah, alright then. I only really found this thread so I didn’t know this has happened multiple times.
I can’t really help you with managing your anxiety, but I do have one piece of unsolicited advice: Since you are likely more sensitive with regards to your trauma (I mean, it’s somewhat impossible not to be), you could try to limit talking about it to safe® spaces, like queer communities or instances, in either of which you are less likely to be hurt/rejected.
But regardless, it should be pretty apparent by now that sexual trauma can affect sexuality in various ways. Like, I recall hearing of bisexual people who were sexually abused and lost parts of their attraction to their abuser’s gender. That should be fairly intuitive to most, it’s disappointing that people don’t treat your case the same.
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Ah, alright then. I only really found this thread so I didn’t know this has happened multiple times.
I can’t really help you with managing your anxiety, but I do have one piece of unsolicited advice: Since you are likely more sensitive with regards to your trauma (I mean, it’s somewhat impossible not to be), you could try to limit talking about it to safe® spaces, like queer communities or instances, in either of which you are less likely to be hurt/rejected.
But regardless, it should be pretty apparent by now that sexual trauma can affect sexuality in various ways. Like, I recall hearing of bisexual people who were sexually abused and lost parts of their attraction to their abuser’s gender. That should be fairly intuitive to most, it’s disappointing that people don’t treat your case the same.