Many LGBTQ+ people experience a 'second adolescence' as adults, making up for what they may have missed out on as teens. Here's how the experience can help them better understand themselves.
; obtaining romantic and sexual firsts with people we truly desired. The adolescence where we could be seen and known by those who mattered to us. The adolescence where we didn’t suffer from constant messaging about the wrongness of feelings that swirled within us.development. Previously thought of as occurring between the ages of twelve and seventeen, we now extend our understanding of adolescence into the person’s early twenties.
Many LGBTQ+ folks grew up with direct and indirect messaging about the wrongness, sinfulness, or weirdness of being non-cisgender and/or non-heterosexual. Though times are slowly changing, we still live within a world with anti-queerness and heteronormativity embedded within its culture. This is evident in the past and current presence of anti-queer legislation, religious belief systems, and through portrayals of humans and relationships in the media.
As a result of growing up within this cultural context, many LGBTQ+ people did not experience an adolescence where we felt able to live fully and safely as our true selves. Instead, many of us experienced an adolescence marked by significant interruptions to our healthy development, boiling down to two primary impacts:of chronic shame caused by anti-queerness
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