Frustrated by kids in my son's class (and a few adults tbh) who cannot seem to countenance a normal child friendship between a boy and a girl, leaping to "oooh, you fancy her" or "X has got a GIRLFRIEND"... in a jeering/giggley way. I just can't be doing with it and have reassured my son that it is perfectly possible to be friends with the opposite sex. This started probably around age 7. They're now 10 and the latest nonsense is for one girl to announce that she is a lesbian, having previously "fancied" one of the boys for months.
I know it isn't AIBU, but AIBU to silently scream "FFS, you haven't even started puberty yet, why would you even think about sexual attraction let alone which sexuality you might eventually end up as??!!" It feels to me that by framing everything in these terms - the language of romantic/ sexual relationships rather than just bog standard paldom, you are inevitably "othering" the opposite sex and messing with the heads of children?