Do you remember a specific age when it “clicked” for you? Were there signs from young childhood or did it only become obvious after puberty?

I ask because Pete Buttigieg recently spoke publicly to a 9-year-old boy who identifies as gay and it reminded me that I knew I was gay as young as 10 (although potential signs stretch back to early childhood). I was a late bloomer (my voice didn’t deepen until I was 16) but I remember being told during sex ed at age 10 (5th grade) that it was normal for boys to think about girls a lot and in my head I was saying “but what if I’m thinking about boys?” Of course I was too shy to say what I was feeling. I didn’t want to be gay. I kept thinking that eventually I would develop an attraction to girls, but it never happened.