Born a boy... Baseball, music, skateboards... Puberty comes and goes... Suicidal thoughts... The only answer to stop the pain... Too scared to follow through... 18 and life, my body is a prison... My body breaks mirrors... Dysphoria, a word never heard... Lost, never knowing why... Alcohol finds me... The perfect medication... I laugh, I live... It hides all the pain... Year after year... It's all i know.. There's still something inside... Something pushing... Calling, wanting to get out... It got to be too much... Then eighteen months ago... The pain got too much... My liver was destroyed... I thought it was the end... I met a person... Heard the word transgender... Some others took me... Taught me, cared for me... One day the light came on... After all these years of tears... The answer was so simple... All the pieces fit perfectly... I was transgender, and never knew... Now I'm free... Im so happy for the first time to be me... I'm transgender..!