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Klinefelter syndrome is technically an intersex condition, with all its attendant gender/sexuality implications. In fact, Lili Elbe, subject of the 2015 Oscar-winning movie The Danish Girl, is now believed to have had Klinefelter syndrome. Kevin identifies as a heterosexual man, but for a long time, was all but asexual.
“I didn’t feel any of the things a normal boy would feel with the onset of puberty,” he says. “Because of that, I didn’t really have a gender identity or any sort of sexuality. I wasn’t attracted to girls, so the conclusion everyone jumped to was that I was gay, and no matter how hard I tried to deny that, the fact that I didn’t have a girlfriend when all the others did ‘proved’ it to them. But I wasn’t attracted to boys, either. I wasn’t attracted to anything or anyone.”
That means everything that’s a nightmare for most teenagers, thanks to the incredibly unwelcome hormones waging psychological warfare on them, were a distinct kind of nightmare for Kevin, for the opposite reason. For example, Sex Ed was “a living hell” for him. “I was surrounded by boys packed to bursting with testosterone, for whom everything was sexualized and hilarious in that manner, and by girls who were giving the boys the come-on … and there I was in the center of all that, unable to understand why I wasn’t feeling any of these (as the teachers put it) ‘perfectly normal’ things. And because I didn’t feel it, and I was shy and awkward and inarticulate, being told by the teacher to answer directly sex-related questions was a form of torture.”
I Never Went Through Puberty: Life As A Perpetual Adolescent
(Source: mrsgrumpygills)
- what i actually said: i forgot
- what my parents heard: i hate you and i am determined to fail at life, go to prison, and bring dishonor to this family. i care about nothing except my computer and tv shows and you can just go burn in hell for all i care. also i'm pregnant.
