“This will probably continue to drop until kids just feel comfortable with who they are.” Murray-Dickson tells me that this gradual cultural shift enables young LGBTQ people to know who they are, but not necessarily be who they are yet.
“In 2011, the average age of coming out was 14, compared to 18 back in 1993,” he says. Kyle Murray-Dickson, a clinical associate in applied psychology for children and young people, tells me that these justifications make sense. 'Catfishing was the closest to romantic interaction I could get – a sort of a thrill that porn didn’t provide.”
