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I’m a good bit older than most, if not all, of the people commenting here, and for someone my age it would have been unimaginable for a show like this, or “Love, Victor,” or “Skam” or “Bad Buddy” to have existed when I was a teenager. So all of the feelings that I had for other boys had me feeling like I had a horrible secret that I would never ever be able to tell anyone. I felt like I was the only one who felt that way, and my religious upbringing reinforced that to the extent that I fought against it not just through high school but college and well into adulthood, and did not come out to anyone until I was almost 30. So I am incredibly glad that shows like this exist. Even though there is still plenty of homophobia out there, and it’s still very difficult to come out, at least there’s someone out there saying it’s OK to be who you are.

That's exactly what a love story should be when we were 15 or 16, cute, sweet, fearful and full of butterflies...🦋🦋

I thought being pan was the norm until I said “don’t you jsut love everyone?” And people said no. I thought that everyone just liked every gender but I was wrong. I’ve been lucky to have so many people to educate me in my life. I came out as trans a few years ago and I’m still transitioning I’ve only just got past the change in name and I’m so happy! This show really appealed to me because I resonate with Nick too much for it to be healthy. I took an am I gay quiz after watching pirates of the Caribbean, and I used to play rugby, I am confused about everything all of the time and I’ve been told I’m a golden retriever. Kit Connor does such a good job.

I knew at the age of 6 that I was gay. I am now 61. Being gay was always something I was comfortable and proud of. I never questioned it, I embraced it!

I wish I could've had something like this during my teenage years. All I got was religious gay conversion therapy and hate from my mom for being a lesbian

I realized I was gay when I was 11, right before I entered middle school at an all-boys school, but looking back on my life before then there were definitely some signs lol (e.g. I asked a boy to kiss me in kindergarten). That was the easy-part, because figuring out my romantic orientation was a years-long process. I just never developed romantic feelings for anyone despite finding guys physically attractive. It was actually Alice Oseman's novel Loveless that helped me accept that I'm on the aromantic spectrum (it was a lot harder to accept that than it was to accept I was gay). Then about a year later, actually a couple months ago, I had my first crush on someone. Turns out he was straight, but we're still friends and having some distance during spring break helped me get over it. I still think I'm somewhere on the aro spectrum given how limited my romantic attraction has been, but I don't feel like I need to put a label on it beyond that. Finally, I got pretty confused abt my gender identity starting when I was 17 (I'm now 18). I like presenting as male and that's the sex I was assigned at birth, but I honestly feel more *human* than any specific gender, and when I think abt gender deep down it feels like there's just a void there. I guess that might make me agender by definition, but I honestly identify more with saying I'm a genderqueer male. So yeah, it's been a long journey figuring this all out, and it's probably not over, but I'm happy with where I am now.

I want "Hi" as a love language. It's final.

I don’t know why I’m so obsessed with this show. I’m 26 and I’m so in my feelings over this show, but the best analysis that I have come up with is that we mourn the loss of something we didn’t realize we’d missed out on.

50 year old gay man here and I’ve watched the series twice already. It’s just so wonderful.

For me as a queer person, I actually didn’t always know from a young age, so I really relate to Nick strongly. I mean, I suppose there was a part of me that knew, but I think I just heavily repressed. I had mostly just liked boys as a teenager, and it definitely took me finally having strong feelings for another woman at the age of 22 (I’m 23 now) to wake me up and look at myself and women differently. I feel like Nick and Kat Edison from the Bold Type are the best portrayals of that kind of awakening specifically. I always thought I “wasn’t queer enough” because I had never had feelings for a woman before that, so I’m so happy about this beautiful show and its portrayal. There is no right or wrong way to be queer, and that’s why representation is so important, so everyone can get to see themselves reflected on the screen in some way, no matter the journey! In a world where we are treated so badly, it’s so important to have our very diverse experiences shown through art and media, considering all of the cishet storylines we are bombarded with. And bisexual male representation is so sparse- I’m just so happy for all the young bi kids out there this will help.

I’m bisexual and trans ftm, both took time to realise but in retrospect looking back on certain strong memories/thoughts/feelings it’s so obvious 😅 honestly I really wish shows like this had been around when I was in school (I’m late 20s sadly lol). Might have helped me connect the dots sooner and then also come out sooner. This show is adorable and the representation is exactly what we all deserve ❤️

These characters are really written in perfection and the cast portraying those character is also perfect! Specially Nick, he really did a great job in his character.

please you are as pure as this show, im havinig a great time rewatching it with you

14:16 Hello everyone! I'm a girl, I'm 21 years old and personally, I've never really had to have like a huge awakening or anything. I was born into a really open-minded family so I never really had to come out or anything. Just one day I'm talking to my family about the guy I like, later on about a girl I like, or whatever kind of person it is (I'm pan btw). Just, since I've never really said anything explicitly, every now and then my mom asks me "But... What are you, anyway? Because I don't care if you like girls or guys or whatever, it's just that you've never been clear." I just think she has a hard time with not putting clear words to things but really, I've never had a problem with that yet 😊 I consider myself very lucky, considering all the horrors I hear around me 😔

Just found you…because I have a love and admiration for anything Heartstopper! Watching people watch it for the first time is the closest thing to watching it for the first time….so thank you for posting! I found HS in August 23, I was 48…within a month of binge watching, reading all the books and a lot of internal questioning…I realized I was bisexual! At 48…because a 16 year old character was on a search that felt very familiar to me! This show has changed my life! I can completely feel all the feelings that he’s going through,it’s so relatable and special! ❤

Whoever was in charge of the soundtrack...genius

Bisexual man here. I think I was 11 when I started liking girls and I didn't experience same sense attraction until I was 15 and it hit me like a tonne of bricks. I'm 27 now and I would say that I am about a 4 on the Kinsey Scale. I have a slight not insignificant preference for men but I'm really into women too. The bisexual youtuber scene really spoke to me.

I just want someone to say hi to me like these two boys 🥺😭😭

I'm in my late 30s and if I had a show like this when I was in high school, I would have probably figured out I was bisexual back then instead of when I was in college; and that all my friends who were girls were actually crushes I had but I just didn't realize it at the time. I didn't actually have my bi awakening until I was watching Buffy The Vampire Slayer and realized that I was just as obsessed with Faith as I was with Angel haha. then I did a bit of google searching of my own and went on a journey of self-discovery that didn't consist of buzzfeed quizzes (I don't think those existed back then) but probably something similar. this show is so special and we need more like it so that LGBTQ+ youth know they are not alone and they have something to relate to in the media. also, I'm so grateful that we have such an amazing bi icon like Nick Nelson for everyone to stan ❤️

Proudly pansexual!! Found out in high school when I started noticing that I didn't really find sexual/physical traits attractive, rather personality traits and realised I didn't mind the gender identity of anyone I had a crush on

I'm demisexual, and I just always noticed that I didn't have crushes or found celebrities hot and when people were talking about kissing or more I just didn't care or couldn't imagine. So I always taught I was on the asexual spectrum When I romantically and slightly sexually liked someone it was usually one of my better friends and then I found the term demisexual and it fit

14:16 I'm agender and aromatic asexual and I was always aware of the aroace part of my identity but didn't know the labels to describe it. I finally excepted that around 2020 (right at the start of quarantine) and then my gender identity just hit me in the head🙂 so yeah, it's actually pretty cool that I understand myself even though I'm 17,5 y.o :) of course, I haven't come out and don't think I will to my family but oh well.

I love so much Nick now has a big group of supporting friends who respect and admire him just as they do Charlie! Tao is going to come around sooner or later. 💙💛

i was born in norway in 96, so i think i was a lot more lucky than most people born at that time in other places of the world, the general society was already really accepting of lgbt even tho there wasnt really any good media representation when i entered middle school, but it started to be a lot better on youtube around when i realised i was gay, i remember i thought "damn gay people can be just normal people!?", cus before that i had more of a stereotypical view that you needed this personality and hobbies to be gay. it breaks my heart to think about how many older people have their life robbed of acceptance just because they love in a slightly different way. these types of shows are a blessing

kit and joe who played nick and charlie is a very good acters they have a speical bond between them and they got very strong friendship and there love for each other are so real their passion is so beautiful and they got very strong friendship i love them so much they support each other and beening there for each other its so magic and lovely to watch and there chemistry is strong and they ment to be together and every time when they see each other u can see the glow in there eyes and they so happy to see each other and every thing is so well done.every time i watch the series and every episosdes are perfect and beauitful and lovely to watch and i will never get sick of it because i love so much and i have been watching it every day and at night that how much i love it and i cant waite until 3rd of august when season 2 come out and to see what going to happen its going to be good love it to much and every acters in the show are so well done

I was around 13 when I started questioning my sexuality. I'm not even really sure what triggered it, but I was just very aware that I was different from my friends and classmates. So, I started researching, and it took a lot of just trying out a label for a while and feeling whether or not I resonated with it until I settled on the bisexual label. Like, I was questioning being demisexual, fully gay or just straight and delusional for years. Definitely relate to Nick a lot, even if I didn't have a Charlie to help me on my way.

At school I had a crush on a classmate. At that time I thought I was broken somehow. I kept staring at her during lessons or at recess with butterflies in my stomach and I panicked that someone would find out. I went to an all-girls school and that’s how I explained it to myself: lack of possibilities. Later I had feelings for boys too and for a while everything was right in my world. My relationships with boys were fine. But then I fell in love with a woman again when I was in my 40s. I was so, so confused. It took me months to figure this out. I googled a lot and discussed my feelings with her and finally accepted that I’m bi. I only told a handful of people then. Heartstopper crushed me. The show hit me like a brick and there was a tornado in my head. I was lucky to have friends I could talk to about how the show made me feel. Like others here have said, I also felt as if I weren’t queer enough. Heartstopper makes me feel welcome in the LGBT-community. I came out to 8 people in the last 4 weeks and I put up the bi colours at my instagram profile (which is huge for me). The tornado in my head is slowly calming down and my door is a lot more open now.

nick and charlie has a speical bond and their connection towards each other and also there chemistry so powerful.and there passion is so magical and the hug that nick gave charlie is for saying iam sorry that u feel u have to keep this a secaret to me nick feel so bad that he ask charlie that but charlie is makeing sure that nick is ok that he will be there though the rough and good and he will support him in verty thing he goes though because they both love each other . and i love how nick was honest to charlie explaning what happen and how he feels and also to Imogen as well it take alot for sameone to press there feelings to people that they care about. and the photo was so beautiful them them in the snow together haveing a speical magic time toge

I'm twenty three and I still don't know if I'm bi or pan, I always just thought that everyone loves everyone so I was a bit confused when people didn't think girls where pretty too! I'm trying to figure it out and it's overwhelming, but I'm excited to find out about myself.

Im bi, and im 17, so like the whole gay quizes and liking both the male and female love interest was very relatable to me :) loved the reaction!

I'm 40 and Bi. I was always aware of the fact that I liked Girls and boys even when I was young, but there was so much homophobia where I was growing up that I never told anyone. For the longest time I would just say I was an ally. When my wife came out as trans, I admitted to her who I really was and she wasn't surprised in the slightest. It literally wasn't until the last year or two that I started openly discussing it- I think it was because our older daughter came out as a Lesbian. Her openness about her sexuality made me feel safer in being able to come out to more people.

Loving your reaction and the show! I'm Homoromantic Asexual. I knew I was attracted to guys as far back as 4th grade though I came out for the first in college at the age of 20. I had a really hard time dating, though, as much as I was really into It and developing feelings and relationships, it was like the relationship I wanted didn't seem to match up with most other people's. It took me until a few years ago, as I'm now 29, to piece together the asexual bit but now I'm pretty confident in it.

I’m a Panromantic on the asexuality spectrum. It explains a lot and let’s me know that nothing’s wrong with me 😊

I love Tao SO MUCH 💛 he's a great friend/person and he's hilarious

I’m pan-ace and ftm trans so shit always felt overly complicated when I thought everything should’ve felt simple. I didn’t realize people didn’t hyper focus on shit like gender dysphoria and I honestly thought people were overexaggerating/making stuff up about feeling physical attraction to people or celebrities. I had a crush on a pair of twins (boy and girl) in kindergarten that felt weird for a bit until I stopped caring and was openly the only bi/pan kid in my middle school for a long time. But it’s funny how a smidge of confidence in my sexuality earned me the token queer kid badge, a few closeted queer/bicurious and even straight kids came up to me to talk about it. It was honestly super nice.

what i saw in this episode when Charlie ask nick that he want to kiss him and when nick said yes charlie was making sure that nick want to and aking nick are u sure because charlie understand how this mean and he want to be there for him and support him though this and he will always be there. i love every episodes and there passion and connection and also there chemistry so magical and there friendship is so strong that they meant to be its so warm and also charile always make sure that nick always feel comfortable with him self.

For me was like this: When i hit 11yo, i knew something was diferent with me, but i didn't understand back then so i struggled until i was really late in my 18's. I was like, "lying to" myself about being bissexual. I was on a full-on denial fase. So... when i complete 18yo, there was one night i was home alone and i told myself clearly that i am gay and that was that. But i only came out one week before my 24th birthday, first to my mom, then my brother... i only told my dad after 4 months in a serious relationship... all process was painful, i wish i could accept me and came out WAY sooner than it was, so i could explore more my teen years, but it was what it was.

I’m bisexual! I’m currently in the closet and hiding behind my phone screen typing this out, but I found out a couple months ago when I was thirteen, I’m fourteen right now, and had many a panic attacks and nights crying as I took various “am I gay” quizzes. I’ve mostly accepted myself, but it’s been very hard thanks to my firmly homophobic dad and confused with internalized homophobia mom that are very religious. There are days where I feel wrong or disgusting for liking both genders, and I did have a phase where I was confused whether I was straight with “woman crushes”, bi, or pan. My bi awakening was Zendaya and Tom Holland, surprise surprise, as I’ve been obsessed with Zendaya since I was like six and watch Spider-Man obsessively. Anyways, Heartstopper is def one of my new favourite shows/comfort shows and I can’t wait to get my hands on the books so I can read them!

20:22 looks like a baby filter😭😭😍 and Isaac said he wanna believe in romance so he prolly dontt and could be asexual. THIS SERIES👏

17:50 - I believe I saw a screenshot of a post from the creator of the show confirming Isaac as aroace, or at least saying the aroace vibes he gives off are intentional. 14:16 I'm a whole LGBTQ+ mess, but let me think.. So, I've always more or less known I was asexual. I'm of the intercourse-repulsed kind, so my innate aversion to the topic was present and noticeable ever since I can remember, with no prior trauma or anything to cause that disgust I felt at it. Not to mention kids started talking about crushes and who is 'attractive' since elementary school, and I never understood what the hell they were on about. So when I heard the term, I immediately started using it because it was just so undeniably me. My relationship with romantic attraction is a wonky one. I struggle to differentiate platonic and romantic a ton, and feeling romantic attraction in general I think is rare for me, and proper crushes only happen with people I have a strong emotional bond with, I believe..? But I don't think I'm _fully_ aromantic, either. I've opted for the label "biromantic arospec" for the romantic side of things, at least for now. Being bi in some way shape or form was the first thing I figured out, out of all of these. I'd never really thought about being gay or straight or anything before, not really being interested in relationships in general it was just never on my mind. But then, a couple years back, I was heading out of my school with a friend and we walked past this gorgeous girl in the corridor and I just. It wasn't a crush or anything, and I never saw that person again, but I certainly felt _some_ kind of attraction to them. Feeling that made me stop in my tracks and just think on it for a minute, as I'd never experienced that before... I'm still not a hundred percent on it having been romantic attraction rather than just aesthetic attraction, but regardless I certainly thought it was at the time. About a year or two later I had what I believed to be my first romantic crush, or rather, two crushes at once, on my two best friends. They were both guys, but one of them didn't know at the time, so as far as we all were aware he was a girl back then. The other was cis. Not sure if they were real crushes or just me being very good friends with them (I struggle to see the difference tbh) but.. yeah. Potentially being arospec was just something I slowly realized along the way as I struggled to navigate these romantic(?) feelings and telling them apart from being besties. All of this being said, whether I'm aro or bi, the signs were there to some extent; as a kid I never understood the difference between men and women in terms of finding them attractive and why straight people only loved one of them. This was likely because either I was attracted to neither binary gender or all genders. I'm also trans, or Agender to be specific. That's sort of been noticeable all my life, it's just that I didn't know of anything other than vaguely what binary trans folk were. For example, I remember distinctly when I was really young _(I'd guess somewhere in the 5-7 age range)_ telling a member of my family I didn't want to be a girl, but when they asked whether I wished to be a boy instead I thought on it for a moment, then said no. I also remember - especially once puberty had hit - repeatedly wondering how it would be not to have any of the primary gendered parts at all, whether that would be nicer. When I heard the labels nonbinary and agender and had them explained to me for the first time, something _did_ click within me like it did with Asexual, but I was in denial for at least six months. I already have enough shit that makes me stand apart from other kids my age _(I'm physically disabled and was being bullied for it at the time, my asexuality made it hard to relate to all the crushes and inappropriate humor and stuff, I'm either a hsp, mentally ill and undiagnosed, neurodivergent and undiagnosed or a combination of the three, I preferred hanging out with older kids but ofc they didn't want to hang out with me, etc etc)_ that made my life harder, so I didn't want to let myself be _another_ thing that'll make everything more difficult. Nevertheless, I eventually internally came out to myself, and then externally to my online friends, changing my pronouns to they/them. tl;dr: for all of these, I'd say to some extent I always knew and the signs were always there for as long as I can remember, I simply didn't have the terminology to express or explain it.

I'm 17 year old now , until my age of 14 I have never been confused abt my sexuality and thought I was straight all along that was until I started developing feelings for my girl bestfriend which is actually hard for me since she has a Bf and I have to hear her talk about him all the time and just smile and nod , as I want to be happy for her . Atleast I'm glad that she made me realise that I'm bisexual and she is accepting even after I told her abou all this . I'll have to wait until I'm happy one day

I am a bi or pan 16 year old(not really sure which yet and I’m still in the closet technically), I kinda realized when I started high school but I come from a religious family so it’s hard to embrace it. I really enjoyed watching Nick just because I relate to him so much, the journey is hard but I’m sure I’ll figure it out. Love you Javi!! 💕

Honestly this is the cutest!

I'm a late 20's bisexual. I feel like when it comes to physical attraction I'm smack-dab in the middle of the Kinsey scale, but I lean homo-romantic. I grew up in a devout religious household, which is why I repressed my latent same-sex attraction for a long time. I always liked girls, but when I was about 15 I started "accidentally" finding different types of gay stuff, usually in a medium that could grant me some plausible deniability to my own brain (I'm not gay, they're just drawings!!) Or reading fanfiction and just telling myself how open-minded I was, even though I was seeking out exclusively gay stories and relating extremely hard. When I was 18 I met my (to-this-day) best friend who would develop into a huge crush of mine (which took an embarrassing amount of time for me to realize it was an actual crush, oops.) It wasn't until I was 22 that I said, in my own head, "I'm bisexual." But that was the floodgate opening. I came out to several friends over the next year, all of whom love and support me, and I'm so happy with my current non-binary partner. I've still never told my parents, and I likely never will, and that's alright with me. They'll just only ever know a portion of their son's story. (Anyways, this show is fantastic and they did the source material the most justice possible!)

I am Bi, and actually it was so funny and hilarious how I realised it. I was 17 when it happend, I was at high school with some of my friends while in the middle of the class we dicided to do some games and challenges (through instagram filters). Mine was to tell my best friend I love him, so the thing is that me and my best friend are like siblings, we always say that we are soulmates but in a brother/sister way so he would never believe if I tell him 'I love you' in a romantic way, which I do not. Because of that I change the challenge to, tell your best friend you love other friend, I told him through texts that I love this other friend of ours, she is a girl, for me it was a joke (and I didn't question myself why I said a girl friend instead of a boy, at that moment). My best friend shooked at first but screamed and congratulates me a lot after the class ended, he totally believed it and was so hiped up, then he told me ¨ I KNEW IT! I KNEW YOU LIKED HER! THOSE STARES AND LOOKS YOU GAVE HER FOR MONTHS CANNOT BE MY IMAGINATION!¨ SOOOO you can guess I freaked out, now I was the one sooked and was completely having a gay pannic. I told him after 2 hours that it was a joke (2 hours of me remembering every single moment with her) and he then was like "are you kidding me?!", and then I said " yes it was a joke, but now I am not that sure... I think I do, I love her... I am confused" and yeah that was it, after that I spend a few days thinking and got into the conclusion that I really love her and that those weird comments and attitude that I had towards her boyfriend (at the time) was because I was jelous, I never liked him in the first place though (they are not together anymore). Now we still friends, I told her that I loved her once my feelings for her were almost gonne, and it was kinda funny. Now we are still friends and i am happy as for who I am.

i love the rain sean its was so magical and nice i love when nick kiss charlie and and he stand on tip toes its so nice to see if u rember in frist episode charlie said he want sameone taler well he has it and also i love how nick tell charlie how he feeling and charlie hug him so speical and u can tell that charile will be there to help him though it. did anyone pick up when charlie run to nick and kiss him and then run off can u see sun flare across nick face.

14:09 I knew I liked boys and girls by age 9, and I was comfortable considering myself Bi for nearly 40 years (I never had to come out because I was never closeted, and I know how lucky I am not having to do that.) However, because of Heartstopper, I now identify on the aroace spectrum (and I am so joyous that I bought a flag and will be going to my first ever Pride event!)

hellooo I'm 23 and bisexual! I am so sad that I didn't have a show like this when I was a teen or even a kid.. when I was like 13 or 14 I had a crush on a boy but at the same time I kept thinking about a girl like I couldn't stop thinking about her lmao but I actually didn't knew bisexuality or anything else besides straight/gay/lesbian exists so I panicked and thought I was a lesbian lmao 😭Like no one around me ever spoke about any other sexuality, not in school, no fiends, no tv shows that I knew of :( I repressed that feeling and completely forgot about it until I started looking at girls a lil differently in 2019.. then in 2020 I actually had a crush on a girl and since I was (finally) educated on lgbtq stuff and considered myself an ally I figured out I was bi pretty fast haha still sad that the lack of representation and education stole me like 8 years of me being myself :( that's why im so obsessed with this show and I think Kit Connor portrays this so very well he's so talented! ofc all of them are but his role just means a lot to me 🥲

When I was around 15-16 I remember having like… a conscious thought that I wasn’t straight on more than one occasion (usually at night when I was trying to fall asleep), but it was also an unacknowledged thought? It’s hard to explain. I guess I compartmentalized? It wasn’t until I was weeks away from turning 18 that I got drunk for one of the first times and admitted it to myself and a group of my likewise drunk new uni friends. Though like other people have said, looking back, things are pretty clear! Like, there were definitely girls I had crushes on when I was young that I didn’t realize until my mid 20s had been crushes lol. Like, me and one girl at a sleepover when we were like 9-10 had to have our sleeping bags right next to each other and held hands in the car, etc.

actually i didnt realise i was gay until i was 16, and i thought i was bi from 14, that age it was hard to differentiate between what you want and what other expect from you. both my parents are very accepting of lgbt and never really pushed on me to like girls, they always used gender neutral language when talking about marrying and love etc. ofc some other people would just assume i was straight like grandparents and friends, so i kinda subconsciously thought i "should be with girls cus its normal", but looking back at it its obvious i preferred boys, and girls just was good friends

I first realized I liked girls the summer before 7th grade. My family is pretty catholic so pre-7th grade I was very much the "I support gay marriage but I would never date a girl because that's a sin". But through pretty girls in media, I started realizing maybe I would want to date a girl (Shout out to the "am I gay quizzes" because that was so me for like 3 months straight). Originally I came out as pan before realizing a few months later that I just liked girls. Then, in my sophomore year of high school, I started getting nauseous when saying I used she/her pronouns and even started hating my birth name. By my freshman year of college, I started using she/they pronouns and going mostly by a nickname I picked up in high school. I still don't really know where I stand on my gender identity. I think looking back there were definitely hints. My reliances on the boy's section of clothing stores, for starters. But I also loved to play pretend as princes and guys, along with a euphoric feeling when I was considered one of the boys or was told I was "boy-like". Is it because I'm butch or not cis? who knows!

Tbh I’m only 21 and I wish I had a show like this back in high school, it’s so sad that happy queer stories are so rare still cause I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve seen stories such as this but from a heteronormative perspective we need many more stories like this asap.

I am omnisexual, panromantic, demisexual and demiromantic. I never realised it back then but when I look back at things now to me both has always just felt normal to me

I am 32 years old and im high school I had a bi awakening with the mummy, brendan and rachel😍 but at the time I was a caretaker for my mother, my parents were getting divorced and I had finals for high school. Really did not date or had a relationship until my first kiss at 22. 24 years old a relationship for 21 months. Have been single since 2016, during all this time I went through so much and was depressed at times. Just did not want to have a relationship, still don't. Happy to be single 2 years ago, I realised I am bi 💖💜💙 This show is great, wish I had it in my teen years, but now is great too🥰

you were right about isaac, he's aroace!

I was raised in an environment where no one would talk about different sexualities, so I didn't really know that not being straight was an option until I was 12 or so. I should've realized sooner that I was bisexual, since I never related to crushes sometimes my friends had haha. Now I have a girlfriend and it's going pretty well for us ^^, though I wish someone would've talked to me earlier about sexual orientation so I could've felt like I wasn't alone in my journey of discovery.

hi javi, loving your heartstopper reactions! anyways, i think the first time i've ever liked anyone was back in third grade of elementary school and it was a boy who play drums in the school band and he was like one of the popular boy in my grade. and as i grew up i got crushes, mostly boys and also some girls. i dated a girl during middle school but i don't know, it just doesn't feel right, like the feelings are not fully there even for the fact that i'm attracted to her. and i never really thought of doing a research of what am i exactly since i live in a very close minded country and i'm not well educated on the whole thing. then the pandemic was a blessing in disguise bc i learned a lot about gender and sexuality during that time. now i identified as a demiboy (he/they) and i'm a homoromantic, homoflexible-sexual! oh and even tho i'm pretty much out on my secret social media accounts, i finally came out to the first irl person i know- my bestfriend- about like a week ago and it was the best, most relieving feeling ever ❤

14:16 Hello bi girl here 👋🏼 I always kind of knew but I never really realized it or defined myself as bi until I was like 17 or 18, I came out to my sister a few years later and then to my mom a few years after that, I am 29 right now and still not out to all of my family but I am out everywhere on social media lol

It was last year when I realized I was aromantic. I became 100% sure of it after I broke up with my partner. On the sexual aspect, I have no idea. One moment, I find women attractive and then after, I find men attractive. I’m still finding out but right now, I just go unlabeled. I might be bisexual I think??? But honestly, the thought scares me. I kind of understand what Nick felt when he was figuring out his sexuality. Most of the time when I get frustrated about my sexuality, I just think “You have to pick one. Just pick one.” It’s not a good mindset but deep inside I think it’s cause I just want the internal conflict to be over.

For 14:18 I’m a Lesbian and I’m in my last year of high school (16 yrs), I found out about the gay world when I was in 7th grade. I started to explore looking up “am I gay” tests and watching LGBT related movies, I came to the conclusion that I was a lesbian (I was 13). I didn’t feel the need to come out to anyone but the people who mattered and I’m honestly still having trouble with it, after I told my mom things got difficult really fast and has tested our relationship sense. But overall I know there’s nothing wrong and I’m not going to hide because she feel that it’s not ok, I’ll respect her ideals and opinions only if she respects mine too. Still never had a girlfriend yet cuz I’m banned from dating and my mommy issues won’t let me rebel against her, anyhoo I love your reactions! - :)

Love seeing your reactions to these episodes!! I’m somewhere on the asexual spectrum and panromantic :) Basically had a sexuality crisis in like 2020 and realised that I assumed I was straight all of that time😂 I’ve also only just realised I’m on the asexual spectrum somewhere which has been a journey for sure! But Alice’s book, loveless really helped me with that!!

I WAS WAITING FOR THIS

Alice confirmed Issac is aroace! We will see more of that storyline in season 2 from what they said!

Female, lesbian. The epiphany came to me when I watched Prettt Little Liars and Emily came out to her dad. When she said “I’m gay”, it just hit me like a ton of bricks that so am I.

Lovely reaction as always I agree Tao and Elle are so cute and wholesome together and yes there are some elements that are different but for the good of the story As for ur what if questions: I'm 22 years old bisexual I came out to my parents when I was 21 so I haven't had a high school love story like charlie and nick, if I was out then it might turn things back cause I had a few love interest but welp some things are still not accepted here in my country (such as how they treated tara and darcy here) but I'm actually happy and contented that some of my love ones knows who I am and that is fine for me for now. My love of my life will soon come eventually so am focusing on my career (3rd year elec engr trust me so many intellectual boys and gals haha) for now.

i wasn’t really on the internet much as a younger kid (overprotective parents) so although i had a couple gay friends i didn’t really understand anything until i was 17 and finally made a twitter acc. i found out about asexuality and latched onto it immediately but it took me another year and a journey from biro, to panro, to cupioro, and back to panro to finally figure out i’m an asexual lesbian. while im not at the point where i feel comfortable being open with my family about it i am starting to be able to talk more about it to friends/classmates, and just be who i am with my amazing girlfriend

Omg your reactions are soooo cute 😂🥰

Asexual Biromantic. I figured out the bi part pretty early on, like 14 or 15, but I didn't know that sexual attraction and romantic attraction were seperate things at that time. I remember being really uncomfortable with the idea of having sex, to the point that I avoided being alone with my boyfriend (who never actually tried or suggested doing anything). Once I did find out about asexuality I didn't fully understand that it was a spectrum. I realized I was ace when I was 22 or 23.

i actually got it mixed up in my head when i was a kid that the crushes i had for girls were just friend feelings and the friend feelings i had for guys must be crushes so i didn’t know i was gay at all until this one new girl who was openly bi moved to my school when i was 12 and i started to realize maybe my interest in her and her sexuality was bc im into her like that. i thought that made me bi as well at first and then later i realized i was a lesbian. i came out that same year so i was still a kid but i didn’t always know. (looking back it was very obvious even when i was rlly young tho lol)

Hi Javi how are u? I binged Heartstopper and I just love Nick and Charlie I don't like Harry and Ben and I like Charlie's friends

I am a lesbian and I found out when I was 6 years old lol I used to kiss girls in 4th-5th grade and I came out to my mom when I was in 6th and she was very supportive and then a few months later she said that she knew that I was gay from the jump lol but I have had a great experience I hang out with a group of friends who are apart of the lgbtQ+ community and I love them so much one is asexual and bisexual(Emma),another is bisexual as well and used to be trans(Kyro/Nadia), and my other friend is a lesbian as well(Venice) and I just love them so much and sorry for ranting LMAOO

I am Pan . Makes me happy to share that. Thought I was bi for many years.

I figured out a few months ago that I was bi….. but it was kinda a moment where I was like “ I know I like guys…… but🤩women🤩” and that was that…… but coming out to my parents is a whole other story…… so I’m gonna wait till I’m older to tell them

I had my sexuality crisis for a whole 1 week when I was 12 and then came out to everyone as gay because I can’t keep a secret to save my life

Imagine how I feel as someone in their 40s!

14:25 Since my mom told me that gay people exist at like 7 I thought "oh maybe that could happen to me lol" even if it was just a silly thought xD I think I'm more on the pan demi-sexual spectrum, I don't fall in love easily I have to be very very good friend with a person first before falling in love so I it took me a long time to actually get my first relationship (had my first date at 18 and my first serious relationship at 22 lmao), + I don't care at all about gender or sex I just like people for regardless. But it's fine if you don't know who you are yet sometimes it takes a long time to figure out and it's ok :3

I was a late bloomer, it didn't click til i was like 16.

bisexual here lol and i guess i've always been somewhat aware but truly figured it out when I became a teenager

I'm ftm trans and I've always been different from others in some way in school.. But i realized that something is different with me that I'm not like the other girls in my class when i was 11.. I only told my close friends how i feel about myself. I'm 15 soon 16 now and I'm still scared to tell my parents tho. But I'm still quet confused about myself. (sorry about my English it's not my first language)

for me I've always been aware that I liked everything. my first kiss ever was with a girl and only after a year or two I kissed a boy. but I guess when I was 12 I had a crush hard for my bestie then I was like yeah gender is definitely not a factor, before that it was just natural hahaha. also this show is everything, I feel so happy for the younger generation to have healthy representation to so many identities, it makes me hopeful about the future 😁

Hi my name is Leon i'm 24 Gay and newly subscribed. I guess i've always known even back when i didn't quite know what being gay meant. All of my celebrity crushes were guys even from as young as 5 or 6. I'd always pay attention to the boy characters more in tv and films. You know your gay when little 9/10 yr old Leon is in his bedroom creating dance routines to Rihanna umbrella and beyonce single ladies. Whilat all the other "straight" boys are out playing football(soccer) and riding bikes lol. I started coming out around 13 to people i was comfortable around and fully came out just after i finished my gcse's at 15. 😊

I’m aroace, and I’m still struggling, but I think I’ve always know that I would never like anyone even if I didn’t know what to call it

i realized i was omnisexual by me actually trying to figure out my sexuality, i struggled since i always thought that boys were only gender i should like since it was influenced and said by people around me. i started to learn more about myself when people on the media started to discover or be more open about there sexuality and so did i; i then went through many sections and landed to omni since i related to it more. i haven't come out yet and i dont plan to since im scared of other people and mostly my family's opinion

I’m nonbinary and abrosexual and it has been a hell of a journey getting here. I still have a way to go before people learn to accept me and I need to also learn to accept myself

I definitely would've loved a show like this when I was a teenager 😢 the only representation I remember from when I was growing up is overly stereotypical gay man and 2 bisexuals who were also the villains in a telenovela lmao

I’m aroace, I’ve felt this way since I can remember but only about a year ago did I find out it was a real thing and not just me being weird💀💀

I’ve recently started to question my sexuality a bit more. Cause I’ve never had like a real crush. Well except one time but then I just imagined that person I my head and what I imagined he was like. Btw I was like 9 but I had this crush on him for like a year until I actually got to know him a little then I started to hate him. Since then I never really had a crush on anyone I think. Only like that person seems really cool, I want to be friends with her type of way. Idk I never been able to see myself in a relationship or something like that. I’m comfortable being single. I’ve talked to some people but I never thought wow I really like this person, like in a relationship way. Like I want to like be with this person. Recently I’ve started to think that maybe I’m asexual or demi or something. Or a mix between? I feel a little sexual attraction to guys, but not at all like romantically or like intellectually. There I feel like girls are more attractive to me in some ways. Or maybe I’ve never met a guy that feels attractive to me in that way. I really don’t know. Cause I’ve almost always assumed I liked guys cause that the only attraction I felt in my life before. But I’ve never connected with a guy. Maybe I’ve talked to the wrong guys? I also tend to walk out pretty fast when I don’t feel a connection, cause why still be around them if I don’t feel anything. Or maybe people my age haven’t developed a personality yet. Im soon 19, so yeah that might explain it.

14:16 Honestly the way I came to terms with my sexuality is kinda like Nick. But without a significant other and with a lot more internalized homophobia. (Warning I am just dumping my experience here, as prompted from the video. It might trigger some, so be warned.)That was around this time last year actually. I had nothing else to do but think about my feelings constantly in quarantine, so after being having a existential crisis I got there. I knew I liked girls since middle school, I had a crush on my best friend (not the straight best friend, she was actually bi.) And I didn't know what to do. I started looking into what I could be. I knew of bisexuality and was learning about pansexuality and more from the internet (like Nick.) I was so confused I just wanted to chose a label so I could be confident in who I am but I couldn't. I started to convince myself that I was gay, I just really liked her as a friend. I have been (obsessed?) with girl best friends I've had in the past (I'm pretty sure it was a crush too now) so why would she be any different. I started telling myself since I don't see her is a sexual manner I didn't have a crush on her. I never thought of any of the boys I liked in a sexual manner either, I just enjoy there company but that didn't stop me from trying to hide my feeling deep down. It didn't help that my mom talked about the idea of a "girl crush" (when a girl thinks another girl is pretty, might envy her. By her definition.) So I just listened to her. I'm really close with my mom, I talk to her about almost everything. When I had a crush on a boy (elementary) and we both liked eachother, I told her about it and she told me not to do anything about. What could we do anyway? "Kids shouldn't date, it's a distracting" she says to this day. Somehow I ended up coming out to her that year. Not as bi or pan but as demisexual. I guess I was testing her idk? We talked about LGBTQ+ stuff a lot before, she questioned why I would. Back then it was just because I was curious, nothing more yet. She isn't outwardly homophobic, she think people have the right to love who they love. But she does believe in a "gay agenda" and always was like "well I know my kids aren't gay". So I was scared, when I came out to her and she just said, "What is that?". I explained what demisexuality meant making sure she new it wasn't an inherently 'gay thing' and she was like, "Oh okay. So just normal. You guys have so many new words for things nowadays." That experience made me glad 'I wasn't gay' and didn't actually come out to her. For the rest of middle I just pushed away all my feelings (for girls and boys alike) because it was a distraction, I needed to focus on my grades. I guess it worked. I did so many extra curriculum and was good in academics, my life was school. I made my friends in theater and in class and hardly hungout out of school. Even though I convinced myself I wasn't gay I still hungout with a lot of people that were. Most of them were bi black girls, which really made me feel comfortable because being gay at least to me was seen as a "white person thing" and being bi was seen as less than a lot of the times. "Everyone says their bi", "people only say their bi to get attention." Were things that were constantly going through my mind when I was trying to get rid of my feelings. Having my group of friends made me except them, even when I couldn't expect myself. While I'm still talking about middle school, I touch on my experiences with my dad and gayness. I love my dad, he is a lot, I mean a lot but he is trying his best to be in my life. Even if it seem controlling at times. I don't talk to my dad about half the stuff I talk to my mom about. Most of our conversations are very surface-level. Back then he really wanted me to be a kid. To the point where he would not talk to me about anything serious or sad and limit all the media I consumed. I wasn't aloud to watch anything but cartoons deemed appropriate by him until I was 11/12, when I got a phone (from my mom, I had to hide it.) When I got a phone I had to freedom to do what ever I wanted online. My parents aren't tech-savy so they didn't know how to put child locks on my phone. I found out a lot about the LGBTQ+ community from Instagram artist. I hardly knew anything before that. Sorry kinda got off topic- Anyway, I still to this day have not talked about LGBTQ+ stuff or even just love stuff with my dad. I don't know what his views are, but in middle school he gave me a hit that they aren't that positive. My dad is very judgement, if I wasn't his daughter I think he wouldn't like me much. He judged a lot of my friends, some good, some bad. I had this one friend who just joined in 7th grade. She was best friends with on of my friends so we became friends. They were both very outwardly confident and touchy so my dad weren't too fond of them. The new girl was extremely touchy, I never was too uncomfortable by it so I just vibed with it. We play with eachothers hair, sit between eachothers legs, lean on eachother, and hug (in theater/the plays.) He did a little of it everything in class, and would hold hands for class trips. This was so normal to me. One day we were walking home after theater and we were holding hands and my dad saw us. He was going to pick me up I think??? He asked why we were holding hands with a bewildered face and I was just shocked. At this point I had convinced myself I wasn't gay and even if I thought I was at the time I didn't have a crush on her. Me and her kinda just parted ways after that and I went home with my dad. He told me not to do that again. I never spoke about that time with anyone and just moved on. So yeah... In quarantine I got pretty sad, not only because I mostly hungout with my friends at school and was horrible with talk online but so really bad stuff happened in 2020 for me. My grade plummeted and I started really hating self for not functioning like I used to. I thought I was a disappointment to everyone and was constantly thinking about hurting myself. Suicide is another I have a big problem with. I used to think it was ilogical and that anyone who killed themselves was stupid for doing it. But then I started to have those thoughts. I didn't act on them, I couldn't because I was too scared of pain. I hate feeling so horribly sad all the time I thought that if I just died in my sleep I wouldn't have to feel like that again. Thinking about hurting myself was it's own way of actually hurting myself for me. The body part I would think of hurting would start to actually hurt. I sleep so much, to try to avoid just feeling anything. After being with my thought for so long some time in 2021 I just started thinking about my sexuality. I don't really want to talk about it this has already been so long but now I know for sure I like girls, not just girls but I do like them. I am unlabeled, if I have to be more specific I would describe myself as queer, gay, or Sapphic. I came out to my friends this year and it felt pretty great. It wasn't a big announcement or anything one of them was just opening up and talking about being genderqueer and never feeling straight and I just added on. So yeah. I wonder if HeartStoppers would have helped me if I found it just a year or two early. I really relate to being scared of coming out the closet still, so I had some solidarity in that fact. I hope HeartStoppers helps people, it is such a feel good show. I love it. (Sorry for trauma dumping...)

i came out to my mum as agender a few months ago and she hasnt mentioned it since 😬

I’m gay I’ve been out as gay since 9th grade. Out as bi from 7th grade. And knew I liked guys since 6th. This is one of the most realistic shows I’ve seen. I loved “young royals” but it wasn’t as realistic as this even if that show was more passionate and engaging

I always knew that I was not straight but I didn't understand that at the beginning, then I grew up in a somewhat homophobic environment but now I can safely say that I am gay and a non-binary person and maybe in the ace spectrum

I know I was gay since 2nd grade when I had the biggest crush on my best friend

i found out i liked girls at 17 and was “bi” until i realized im a lesbian at 18, and then i figured out that i’m nonbinary at 19 lol. i’m 21 now

You have to watch young royals in Netflix

it took me i little over 4 years to fully firgure out i was bi first gay then bi then, but am i really bi no i am gay but no girl are cute, but are they? and that went on for 4 years

I’m gay and I always knew I liked guys in a different light like imagining being with one and surprisingly mostly positive except my ex uncle

i think i may be heteroflexible. i mostly have boy crushes in real life but almost all of my fictional crushes and celebrity crushes are girls… also i can see myself being with a girl sexually but i don’t know if i would be with one romantically

I've only realized that I'm Bi last year. I'm already 19 years old so, a little too late. Actually I've always asked myself why I feel attracted to women as well but because of my religious family I always put that kind of thoughts aside and ignore them. So, last year I met this girl on twitter and then was when I realized I don't really care about the other person sexuality, and that even before that I've already had a Crush on one of my best friends so I've kinda knew but just didn't accept it

im a nonbinary lesbian took me 17 years to fully figure it out i thought i liked men for like my whole life then relised i like women at about the age of 16 and my girl crushes were so different to my men "crushes" that i relised i didn't like men