How old were you when

You started knowing what's yaoi and what made you stay? I'm sure some of you have read some pretty fk up yaoi troupe (more often than not, the troupe in yaoi are kinda messed up) and does it change your way of thinking or mess up your perception of reality and fiction?

I agree that minors shouldn't be reading stuffs like this but I would be a hypocrite to preach it since I was a minor when I started reading yaoi. It did opened my eyes to many concepts and some fk up stuffs but never once did I confused reality and fiction. I know very well that it's simply just something I read. If I'm curious or if I wanted to know more, I will simply googled it and understand it for myself.

I find it to be really weird when people start policing others on what they should draw or what they should write, because I've been reading stuffs like this since ages ago and it never affected me, it just makes me understand how fuck up it is that this happened and I've learn to understand what a bullshit it is.

SO, my question is, does reading yaoi change your attitude/perception/acceptance/understanding towards some of the topic that was portrayed in the yaoi and what is it?

For me, I've learn a lot. Accepting lgbtq+ and understanding free love, understanding the pain of being not accepted simply because of who you love, are probably the most prominent in all that I have come to understand.