Little frustrated.

[Extreme586]

I messed up. I alienated everyone i cared about in school over the past 4 years in high school and im a senior now nearly halfway through the year. I guess I know any chance at reviving high school is over. Once I move to a college it will be like starting fresh again, with a few people here and there that I'm sure I will see.

Just not sure whether I should be open with everyone and tell them from the start I'm gay? If I tell them I feel like they will treat me differently and guys especially will put up a wall so as to not give me any wrong ideas. My freshman year and sophomore year, people I liked did really nice things to me that made me smile that I don't think they would have done normally if they had known.. One guy I really liked even laid his head on my shoulder. I just don't want to be singled out from every guy.

Any advice is appreciated!

[Living For Love]

If you think it's a bad decision, why do you want to tell everyone you're gay? I know you will feel more free and open afterwards, but if you think people will discriminate you, you better not do it.

[SammieRose]

I know there is much peer pressure in HS and lesbians and gays are bullied a lot, but soon will be college!

The thing you need to do is to be true to yourself first, so embrace your sexual orientation and tell them, not as the first thing, like "Hi I'm JD, I'm gay!" but let it show and if they ask you, tell the truth. Yes there will be discrimination from some ppl, but also will be support from the LBGT community at college.

College is the time to find yourself and, if wanted, experiment within the legal limits! :P:P

[steellord321]

Well it sounds like the closet is what's making you singled out.

I dual enroll which is half time at college, half in high school. Let me tell you 2 major diffs. At college they are way more mature about this. Also, you aren't trapped in class all day. If they know you're gay so what. You're in that class 3 hours a week only. There's also 30k other students. There's no such thing as "reputation" All that matters is your friends and they aren't your friends if you have to hide.

Now if you live in the dorms and your neighbor has a rainbow flag and 1d poster for everyone to see, are you really gonna stay in the closet and be miserable?

You'll get to date guys instead of cling to that one time a guy put his head on your shoulder.

[sqishy]

I know there is much peer pressure in HS and lesbians and gays are bullied a lot, but soon will be college!

The thing you need to do is to be true to yourself first, so embrace your sexual orientation and tell them, not as the first thing, like "Hi I'm JD, I'm gay!" but let it show and if they ask you, tell the truth. Yes there will be discrimination from some ppl, but also will be support from the LBGT community at college.

College is the time to find yourself and, if wanted, experiment within the legal limits! :P:P

This ^ I agree with. College is a good time to get around to it.