I hope this is not a horribly insensitive question, and I wasn't sure which topic to put it in! it's just something I find myself wondering. I know I've seen on threads before that people guessed from a young age that their child would be gay, a long long time before the child would discover it themselves.
I guess what I'd be really interested to know is how many people guess that their child would be gay when they're say 3-10 years old and later turn out to be incorrect. If being incorrect about that prediction is equally common, that would imply the ones who "correctly" guessed just chanced upon the right guess, rather than there being any real correlation between young children's behaviour and their future sexuality.
Surely you can't really predict someone's future sexuality based on old fashioned stereotypes like boys being "camp" and girls being tomboys etc. But then again some gay people are proud of the fact they had those personality traits from a young age. Should we avoid having these hunches about our children's sexuality, or is it normal to wonder, even though it should make no difference to how we raise or love them? Interested to hear some MN opinions!