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"you're a boy? but you look like a girl." graces my ears too often for it to be innocent anymore. some days i wish the word woman didn't make me cringe i wish i didn't have to tell teacher after teacher, "i know what it says in attendance, but my name is atlas and my pronouns are he/him i'm depending on you not to ***** up, i need this to feel normal, please don't make me feel invalid like all my efforts to erase the young lady i was expected to be at birth will never amount to anything more than a teenager's attempt to be 'different'" i think sometimes i hate my mind more than my body, because it's the one that does the screaming.
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Oct 14, 2016
Oct 14, 2016 at 4:09 PM UTC
when they said it's a girl they should have said it's a long ******* road ahead
"you're a boy? but you look like a girl." graces my ears too often for it to be innocent anymore. some days i wish the word woman didn't make me cringe i wish i didn't have to tell teacher after teacher, "i know what it says in attendance, but my name is atlas and my pronouns are he/him i'm depending on you not to ***** up, i need this to feel normal, please don't make me feel invalid like all my efforts to erase the young lady i was expected to be at birth will never amount to anything more than a teenager's attempt to be 'different'" i think sometimes i hate my mind more than my body, because it's the one that does the screaming.
spaceprince
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Oct 14, 2016
Oct 14, 2016 at 4:09 PM UTC
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