No. I grew up in Gary Indiana.
It was back in the days before the EPA.
The air was so thick we could play with it in the sunlight.
We never needed to take iron supplements -
we just inhaled deeply.
I was 18 before I realized that the stuff you picked from your nose wasn't supposed to be black.
We had a rock garden made from blast furnace slag.
There were close to 400 kids in my high school class.
Out of a whole school of nearly 1,600 students,
there were only three that even hinted at being queer.
And I don't even think *they* were sure about it at that point.
Bottom line - I refuse to believe that a ten-year-old kid (give or take a year or so) could possibly have decided that he is absolutely, positively queer.
Unless some perverse adult has convinced him of it.
I used this example on my somewhat liberal gf the other day.
I asked her what she thought the percentage of gay people were. She estimated 30%. I said, "So our high school class had 400 people in it. You honestly think that 120 of us were gay?"
She had that deer in the headlight look and said, "Ok. Maybe 30% is too high."