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Obviously not meaning like... "I saw Tim the other day and he looked hot" but I mean when you realize, at any age, that the spectrum of your sexual and/or romantic attraction is either a) non-normative, or b) just different than what you thought/expected/assumed.
Identifying as gay/bi/pan/queer is not the only valid or healthy response to that experience.
I would say identifying as "straight" upon realizing your potential for attraction is non-normative is... likely to be less healthy, because "straight" like "white" is an exclusionary identity, defined more by what it's not than what it is.
but even "straight" if you don't clench your fist around it too tight, can be a perfectly healthy label for you after you've had that non-normative/broadening experience of attraction.
Ignoring it and choosing never to act on it can also be perfectly valid and healthy! Ethically disentangling yourself from your present romantic/sexual situation in order to pursue that new attraction can be perfectly valid and healthy!
anything between those two poles can be perfectly valid and healthy!
and I guess my whole point is we get very mixed up between identity-as-social-position and identity-as-essence.
When in reality, if anything, identity is about aligning the two! Maybe.
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