Having made it into Theo Smith’s list of Top 80 UK Neurodiversity Evangelists to follow, here is some background for my new followers. In 2018, I took my eldest child, who was 14 at the time, to see a psychiatrist about his extreme anxiety attacks. She listened and observed, then concluded that what he wasContinue reading “Background on me”
Category Archives: Bisexuality
Straight passing relationships and LGBTQIA Pride
Straight passing relationships and LGBTQIA Pride: “A relationship is referred to as being ‘straight passing’ when even though one or more people in it are queer, their romantic and sexual identities are often perceived by others to be heteroromantic and heterosexual. This can occur, for example, when a cis, bi man is dating a cis,Continue reading “Straight passing relationships and LGBTQIA Pride”
Coming out story
#NationalComingOutDay I was sixteen when I first concluded that I was bi (thanks, Winona Ryder). I was open about this with my best friend, and my boyfriend at the time, but I was too embarrassed to discuss it with my family or wider social circle. However, the truth did come out during a sixth formContinue reading “Coming out story”
How to be an ally to bi and pan people
By Charlie Hart (Ausome Charlie) Understand what labels mean One definition of “bisexual” or “bi” is “attracted to more than one gender”. My preferred definition is this: May experience heterosexual (different sex) or homosexual (same sex) attraction. “Pansexual” or “pan” means when we are attracted to individuals, their gender does not come into it. NeitherContinue reading “How to be an ally to bi and pan people”
Insight into Bisexuality by Charlie
Some of Charlie’s lived experience as a bisexual woman
The Double Rainbow
Intersectional Diversity: The ‘Double Rainbow’ of Autism and LGBTQIA+ Here are Charlie’s answers to questions they were recently asked about their lived experience of the ‘double rainbow’. Can you explain what the term ‘double rainbow’ means? Studies show that autistic people are far more likely identify as a sexuality minority and/or a gender minority, comparedContinue reading “The Double Rainbow”
Making the Stonewall Top 100 Inclusive Employers List
What it means to me that my employer made it into the Stonewall Top 100: I have always been passionate about diversity and inclusion, partly because I am #autistic and bisexual and hence I identify as a member of an intersectional minority group. In our family there are gay, bisexual and gender-fluid young people, someContinue reading “Making the Stonewall Top 100 Inclusive Employers List”
National Coming Out Day
I posted the above on National Coming Out Day, and a friend commented this: “I really struggle with why people have to “come out!” I mean “straight” people don’t have to, so why should they? What’s wrong with people just being accepted for who and what they are?” After much deliberation, here is my response:Continue reading “National Coming Out Day”
Oh you’re married to a man. You must be straight
#BiVisibilityDay #BisexualityDay #BisexualPrideDay My sexuality has never been a closely guarded secret, but I guess many people just naturally assume I am straight. After all, I am married to a man, my second husband, and I have never had a serious or long-term girlfriend. Nevertheless, I am bisexual. I don’t need to go 50:50, norContinue reading “Oh you’re married to a man. You must be straight”
Ausome Charlie 