I’m 16 years old (F) and have known that I’m bisexual since I was 12, I haven’t told anyone since I can’t risk my family finding out because it would put me in a dangerous situation (my family is very religious and homophobic). As the years pass keeping this secret has been feeling more and more suffocating. Every positive thing that happens to me is just clouded with the like impending doom and fear. When I talk to my family or friends it just feels painful knowing that nobody genuinely knows me, and really my sexuality shouldn’t matter this much to my family or friends it’s just I have nobody in my life that I can be truly honest with. Not one person in my life actually knows me for who I am. I think holding onto these feelings for so long is also messing with my mental health since I just keep everything bottled up till one little random argument happens and all the feelings I haven’t thought about just come out all at once.
I know I can’t tell my family at least until I’m an adult, and I might tell my best friend but I’m not sure yet. I just made this post because I want to know how anybody could keep this secret for longer how does anybody deal wit