QOTD/GTKY (4.8.2015)

[wittyandwaiting]

1. I knew that I was ______ (LGBTTTIQQ etc. or an ally) when....

2. Favourite board game?

3. Do you believe everything happens for a reason or does life involve more chance and luck?

[officerofthelaw]

Wrong date silly!!! But I knew what you meant.

1. I knew that I was interested in girls more than boys when I was in 5th grade and had a crush on my female teacher.  I was also a giant tomboy.

(I answered this wrong earlier and after reading everyone's answer, realized this question was specific to sexuality lol.  I obviously did not read the words in the parenthesis.)

2. Favourite board game?
Life!!!

3. Do you believe everything happens for a reason or does life involve more chance and luck?
I think everything happens the way it is suppose to.

[mahler5]

1). I knew to a certain extent when I was really young because I was a tomboy. But the first time I realized I was attracted to women ( or at least acknowledged it) was freshman year high school when I was on swim team and in locker room. I remember being horrified at my feelings very clearly. I went back to thinking it was just some fluke thing. Or maybe I was just a little bi etc. Didn't fully acknowledge I was gay until 26 when I had an insane crush on a colleague. Suffice to say I had a lot of denial.

2) chess or scrabble

3) I don't believe everything happens for a reason. I don't believe everything is random either though. Not sure I believe in luck either. I swear I'm a positive, optimistic person though!

[karlamo]

1. My "knowing" was a slow evolution. My wife is the only woman I have dated. I met her when I was 21 and wasn't sure what I was feeling. It wasn't until 5 years later of dating her that I realized I would be lost without her.

2. I'm not a board game person but I do like Apples to Apples. I enjoy inappropraite games

3. Big believer that the univerise is guiding us through life and is leading us to where we are meant to be. My favorite book is The Alchemist and I must have read it 4 times while we were TTC Rudy.

[kh826]

1. I knew I was gay my Senior year of high school. I blurted it out to two friends on May 11th of my Senior year, and there was no going back. I remember thinking "why did I just say that?!?!" panicking that then I couldn't take it back since it was out there in the world and not just in my head. I didn't date until college, so I used to joke with a friend that I was a "theoretical lesbian," but I knew long before my first date or first kiss with a woman. I don't have an "a-ha" moment that I can recall though.

2. I haven't played a board game in a really long time, but I used to love trivial pursuit.

3. I definitely believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe in fate and destiny. I believe that people have the power to guide or change their fate based on their choices and actions, but I believe that there is a plan, and that in the end everything does happen for a reason. I find comfort in that thought when things are hard and also when they work out for the best in ways I was convinced they would not.

[kristip]

1. I didnt know really until my wife. We were best friends since 9th grade I was going away to college in another state and leaving her didnt feel right. We spent one month apart (she drove to see me every weekend still) Due to family issues I came home and thats when we started to date as well.

2. Favorite board game? I like monopoly when I was a kid.

3. I believe everything happens for a reason, it doesnt always seem fair.

[RM80]

1. I knew in high school, I had a huge crush on a girl at camp, she was my 'bff' then I realized I wanted more than that. Ultimately she was just a friend but that was my ah-ha summer!

2. I LOVE board games, all kinds! Favorite is Settlers of Catan!

ETA: I forgot #3.

3. I don't believe in fate, but not quite luck either. I guess I believe in hard work & directing your own path. I think our actions and decisions largely drive where we get to.

[kona]

1. I didn't know for sure until my first kiss with DW sophomore year in college. Looking back it really obvious to me but I wasn't aware of it at the time in high school.

2. I loved Monopoly when I was young. No one will play with me now.

3. I do believe in fate or destiny to a certain extent. I also believe that we need to be responsible for our actions and choices.

[wittyandwaiting]

1. I remember being in primary school, playing MASH...remember this...and thinking that I wanted to put girl names down. I dated whoever I wanted in high school, male and female, but after trying to force a relationship with DS's father I realized that I couldn't see myself in a relationship with a man.

2. I like scrabble but nobody will play with me so that's sad.

3. To be honest, I don't know what I think. Somebody asked me so I figured that perhaps I could ask you all and then formulate an opinion; I still don't know what I believe.

[PiradicalMaid]

wittyandwaiting, I will play Scrabble with you!

1. Looking back, I really knew as soon as I started to hit puberty, but I didn't acknowledge it then because I was confused by the fact that I was attracted to girls but would still get crushes on boys. In high school I had a really vivid dream about being with a girl, and that's when I came out as bi. I've most always been attracted to androgynous folks, but there isn't really a word for that. Sometime around college/early adulthood, I started to prefer to ID as queer. I was with my ex from the end of HS until just a couple of years ago, so I didn't get to do much thinking or exploring of my sexuality or preferences. I think my sexuality is something that I'll always be figuring out and that will probably always be fluid and shifting. That being said, I plan to be with my current SO for the rest of my life and we're monogamous, so I mean that as happening within that relationship, not in terms of attractions to folks outside of it. /super long answer

2. Cranium! We're having a game night this Saturday and we're going to play the Firefly board game, which I haven't tried yet...

3. I believe in a mixture of things. Some things in my life feel fated and like they were always meant to be. I still believe in free will and luck and that senseless tragedies occur. I don't really have an explanation.

[ionaerebor]

1. I knew that I was ______ (LGBTTTIQQ etc. or an ally) when.... I never had that moment of realisation that I was attracted to girls as well as guys, I always knew that. But I was about thirteen when I, very belatedly, realised that not everybody was.

2. Favourite board game? Rat race, or articulate.

3. Do you believe everything happens for a reason or does life involve more chance and luck? Neither. I believe our decision, and the decisions of the people around us, and the amount of time and effort you are prepared to put into things, are te only things that shape our future.

[esquette]

Apr 7, 2015 22:55:43 GMT -5 PiradicalMaid said:

2. Cranium! We're having a game night this Saturday and we're going to play the Firefly board game, which I haven't tried yet...

We have the Firefly board game!  My honey loves it!  I won't play that often, because it's a long game and I don't have the patience.  But it's a great game!!  It does such a great job of pulling out little details from the show.

[esquette]

1. I knew that I was ______ (LGBTTTIQQ etc. or an ally) when....
I fell in love with my speech and debate partner, who was a lovely (straight) girl.

2. Favourite board game?
I like Qwirkle! Also, Innovation, Carcassone, 7 Wonders

3. Do you believe everything happens for a reason or does life involve more chance and luck?
I believe that life is what you make of it. You can choose to assume responsibility for your life, and to make what you can of it, or you can flop around your house and wail at your bad luck. It may not happen for a reason, but it is still more about choice than chance.