Is it normal for this to happen to me?

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Ok so when I was a little girl, I got a bunch of "crushes" that weren't actual crushes. I thought these people were cute and wanted to be friends with them.

When I was 18 or 19 I started getting real crushes. It's a really intense and special feeling.

None of my childhood "crushes" felt like the crushes I get as an adult. I don't think that my childhood crushes were real crushes.

Is it normal for a little girl to think she has crushes and then, when that little girl grows up, she starts getting real crushes and realizes that her childhood crushes weren't real crushes?

Idk how normal this is.

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Based on 12 votes (10 yes)
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  • KiwiWisdom
    6 years ago

    Yes this is normal and natural. Hormones change everything, including how the world is experienced. Most people obsess over the sex part, but truthfully it's also your brain that undergoes many changes as it fully develops.

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  • RoseIsabella
    6 years ago

    *yawns*

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  • shade_ilmaendu
    6 years ago

    Perfectly normal. As a younger child there weren't intense hormones to enhance those feelings, as a teenager there are. Puberty tends to amplify... well, a lot of things. It doesn't mean the crushes you had before weren't real, it just means that now there are way more chemicals releasing in your body in asociation with those feelings.

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  • suckonthis9
    6 years ago

    Yes it's normal.

    It is called hormones and genetic programming.

    Humans are sexually reproducing animals. In order to continue our existence, we are genetically programmed to find a suitable mate.
    This normally begins at puberty, when the human creature becomes an adolescent, which is technically an adult.

    Get used to it. This will continue throughout your life, through various stages of development; until menopause, when the clutch of undeveloped eggs in your ovaries, that you were born with, are depleted.

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  • Justmehere
    6 years ago

    It's normal and real. My niece's best friend had a huge crush on me when she was maybe 8 or 9, it was mostly that I was the cool uncle who took them places and spent time with them. As she got older and developed, it became "Your uncle is hot". I'd noticed how her body was becoming very shapely, womanly, and attractive, but, put it out of my mind.

    Fast-forward to current. They're both in college, don't speak anymore, but, the friend maintains contact with me (the history, sports, etc.). She's 21 now, and we met for a celebration drink when she was in for break. We chatted, joked around, and she told me "I had such a crush on you!", making me laugh and get my mind going. Then, she reached her soft, red-nailed hand to mine and said "I still do..And now that I'm old-er..."

    We didn't act that night, but..I can see it happening. If she's had this crush on me this long..I should check it out.

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  • Boojum
    6 years ago

    If a seven year-old has a crush, there's no sexual element (or at least there shouldn't be, since kids that age shouldn't be having those sorts of feelings).

    Hardly surprising that things are very different when you're sexually mature and fully aware of what those "tingly feelings" mean.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      6 years ago

      I'm not talking about sexual attraction, I am talking about romantic attraction.

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