When did your child make their sexual orientation known? Were your predictions accurate?

Throwaway for controversial topic.My husband and I believe that our son might be gay. It was harder for him to get used to the idea but neither of us consider this to be a big deal. We have/will not pressure him to come out and plan to let nature run it's course.We have some friends who are gay and all of them say that they have always known that they were different. We have talked to parents of gay kids and most of them say that they have known since their child was in preschool.I know I can't link here but I read a study that said,Beginning with the 3.5-year-old age group, the team found that children who engaged mostly in “gender-conforming” play (boys who played with trucks and girls who played with dolls, as an example) were likely to report being heterosexual at age 15, whereas the teenagers who reported being gay, lesbian, or not strictly heterosexual were more likely to engage in “gender-nonconforming” play. The same pattern held true when they expanded the teenagers’ choices to a five-point spectrum ranging from 100% heterosexual to 100% homosexual.Teens who described themselves as lesbian scored on average about 10 points higher on the gender-play scale at age 4.75 (meaning more stereotypically male play) than their heterosexual peers, and teens who described themselves as gay men scored about 10 points lower on the scale than their peers, the researchers report in Developmental Psychology. Questions of transgender identity were not addressed in the study.I am very interested in seeing other thoughts on this. When was your child's sexual orientation known and were your predictions accurate? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2EDSRzx