Labels, labels everywhere and WTF do they mean?

I've been nosing around the LGBTQ thread today and to be honest it confused the crap out of me.
Love, that's simple. In latin there's so many words for love it's crazy. And now we have a similar issue, in as much as there are a lot of confusing terms out there and frankly the descriptions don't do them justice.

So what i'm asking is: what does pansexual/demisexual/asexuality/transexual mean to you?

It's going to be different for each person obviously but i want to know what it is about this label that makes you feel comfortable and how you realised who/what you were comfortable with.


I'm a simple case. Never attracted to boys and decided a year or so ago that I am much more comfortable in romantic attachments with other females. Never technically came out but everybody knows. No problems with my friends or family much, they all accepted it and could see that for once I was happy in myself and with another.

But how did your own transformation occur? Were you ever closeted? How difficult was it to pin down your identity, or are you still trying?