My DD1 told me she identified as Bi when she was 14. I was happy that she felt safe enough to trust me with that, and of course, just want her to be safe and happy in life. She has never felt comfortable “coming out” so this has strictly been my secret within our family. (I have found this difficult, as I don’t like keeping secrets from her father and I think she has built a wall up between herself and him unnecessarily. He is always her biggest champion, and I wouldn’t be with a homophobe.) She goes to an all-girl school and her group of friends consists of high-achieving girls pretty much cover all bases on the sexuality and gender identity spectrum. My DD1 who is nearly 17 now, has recently also been diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum as well. (She is not the only one in the group with this diagnosis, either…) She has told me that she is less convinced that she is Bi and doesn’t actually know how she identifies at all - which is fine… plenty of time to work it out, if you ask me…. But she is now feeling like the group she is in will reject her if she doesn’t maintain the status quo. The reason she had the diagnosis in the first place was because she is socially “clunky” for want of a better description, and quite vulnerable in this respect. She does not like being touched at all - to the point where I was concerned that she had been abused - and she knows that she will need to address this to move forward and have healthy romantic relationships. (Super analytical kid…) She is so stressed out about possibly being dumped by these girls if she admits that she doesn’t know where she stands with her own sexuality that she is losing sleep and not wanting to go to school. (That’s huge for her!) She is seeing a counsellor, but any other advice would be greatly appreciated!!!