Another thing is in middle school I really loved my best friend in a completely platonic way, we would do pretty much everything tighter at school. Some point in the year someone asked me if we were dating and I was so appalled at the idea and shocked at the question, I said no of course, but after that day rumors started circling around and my best friend started to separate herself from me a bit, she didn’t want to be seen as gay, (I didn’t even know what “gay” was at the time) I was really sad, I loss a really amazing friend because of a rumor. (Sorry for posting twice!)