Funny enough I asked this question to my owner a few days ago, and I definitely think that being submissive or dominant is something that comes naturally. Both he and I saw things a bit differently, normal things, but underlying there was that quality that makes me his slave now and him my owner. Of course as children you dont quite know what you are feeling, you dont have a name for it, but it was there. Now as adults, we can label ourselves, and use all the fancy acronyms to describe our kinks and fetishes. Furthermore in my personal opinion, I think its natural to feel submissive or dominant even from early childhood, but growing up in society, you are taught to oppress those feelings because their "unnatural" or "deviant", and some luckily never quite manage to oppress it (lucky for me) , others end up discovering their true selves later on in life, and unfortunetly some never quite manage to embrace who they are. I feel happy to say that I have never hid my true self from anyone, and have always, always embraced and accepted and explored who I am, so that even at my young age, I know what I want and how Im gonna make sure that I get it.