In a personal piece published by Metro UK in July 2024, writer Emma Flint shared her moving story of realizing she was abrosexual – after 30 years of wondering why her attractions seemed to shift like the seasons.
Flint, who was 32 at the time of writing the article, describes her years of thinking she was a lesbian, followed by periods where she felt drawn to men, then no one at all, and then back again.
For decades, she said she was “uncertain of who I was.”
“I felt lost, as if out at sea. I also felt like a fraud because of how much I changed my identity when chatting with loved ones,” explains the freelancer, based in Staffordshire, England.
“It wasn’t that I couldn’t make my mind up, but rather my identity shifted,” One day I felt like I was a lesbian, yet days or weeks later, I
