Attraction is so complicated, and finding the right label even more so, anyone help?
I (22F, cis) have been hopping between sapphic, bi, demi and grey for so long that I don't even know if my attraction even has a pattern (except homosexuality, I always found women physically attractive) especially as I have only began discovering my queerness while I started a relationship with my male best friend.
But sometimes it feels like my attraction is fixated on people I know well vs on people I don't know at all/ barely know. In my teens, I had a crush on two BFF girls that I got to know very deeply once we knew each other's minds basically, and a crush on a guy from my old friend group (the difference is I barely knew him and I crushed more on an ideal version of him than his real self, I partially blame shoujo romance anime for this, also turned out in the end that he's gay) and I had big Heartbreak from losing my first BFF (reconnected later but she's straight and after all that time she changed a lot ofc) and another Heartbreak due to the guy crush (recovered pretty quickly from it though it still hurt), for the last Best Friend the relationship was very unstable so it was easier to deal with it after and after leaving school she basically ghosted me.
Fiction-wise I enjoy straight and wlw material but am quite mlm averse, but I heard fiction isn't very telling.
So romantically I would guess I go into the bi territory but there's a heavy demi blanket on it, sexually it's similar but the focus is more on women I think? Also, can demisexuality include deep and steep relationships but not inbetween? I do feel attracted to strangers a bit too though that's more rare.
It sometimes just seems like being grey, I cannot pinpoint it. Especially since being in a relationship with my boyfriend my attraction also sometimes jumps off. There's always a phase where I have to second guess the relationship cause my attraction fades. Now add the fact that I learnt about the possibility of me being queer while I was in the relationship, and here we have the chaos soup.
(also I have been molested in the past but I worked thru a good piece of it, if this has any relevance)