Thanks.
I'm not sure why I actually felt compelled to post this tonight but I do feel a little better typing it out.
There's SO MUCH 12 year old me did that I feel disconnected from currently.
Like... I'm mad. In this current moment right now. I am angry.
Remembering things said and done to me at the time I thought were so adorable turns my stomach and has me gritting my teeth now. I clearly remember most of those men's eyes when I told them my age. The closest thing to being turned down ANY of them did was to only do oral and/or anal because apparently vaginal sex was wrong for someone so young.
I'm pretty sure I understood what I was doing at the time. Even still, holy fuck. Being the same age now (even younger) than some of those men I was with 2 decades ago, I can't imagine having anything more intimate than a brief casual conversation with a preteen.