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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 7031328" data-source="post: 8597667">Anecdotal on my part, but this is true.&nbsp; I've got some family like this today.&nbsp; And to be perfectly frank, I'm ashamed to admit I was like that in my younger years (and I likely still have blind spots that I'm trying to be mindful of so that I might hopefully correct it).&nbsp; I just accepted our at-the-time culture's idea of what a gay or bi person was, even though I personally knew and hung out with bi people in high school (&quot;but they weren't what we mean when we mean a bi person&quot;).At least on my end, continued exposure of both people (was friends with some gay dudes in the military, who I didn't realize immediatley were gay due to the &quot;don't ask/don't tell&quot; policy at the time) and ideas eventually broke through, along with some introspection and realization that I never really bothered to think through any of my beliefs that I just sort of absorbed growing up.&nbsp; Plus some of the hateful stuff some people would spew out would, in my naivety, surprise me because I didn't understand why they would do that?&nbsp; They were just (again, in my incorrect opinion at the time) &quot;wrong&quot;, but they weren't hurting anyone and being wrong is no reason to hate someone.So some of us might start off dumb on this topic, but hopefully can change with enough exposure.&nbsp; At least I hope.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guest 7031328, post: 8597667"] Anecdotal on my part, but this is true. I've got some family like this today. And to be perfectly frank, I'm ashamed to admit I was like that in my younger years (and I likely still have blind spots that I'm trying to be mindful of so that I might hopefully correct it). I just accepted our at-the-time culture's idea of what a gay or bi person was, even though I personally knew and hung out with bi people in high school ("but [I]they[/I] weren't what we mean when we mean a bi person"). At least on my end, continued exposure of both people (was friends with some gay dudes in the military, who I didn't realize immediatley were gay due to the "don't ask/don't tell" policy at the time) and ideas eventually broke through, along with some introspection and realization that I never really bothered to think through any of my beliefs that I just sort of absorbed growing up. Plus some of the hateful stuff some people would spew out would, in my naivety, surprise me because I didn't understand why they would do that? They were just (again, in my incorrect opinion at the time) "wrong", but they weren't hurting anyone and being wrong is no reason to hate someone. So some of us might start off dumb on this topic, but hopefully can change with enough exposure. At least I hope. [/QUOTE]

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