Feminism | Posted by Steph on 09/23/2009

Growing Up Different

This is a story of growing up different
of growing up wrong.
you are a young child playing in the park and a stranger asks your mother if that’s her little girl
and she frowns and says 
no, my son
but inside you are secretly elated.
this is a story of growing up wrong
of never using public restrooms
because you feel too uncomfortable so you hold it in until you get home.
this is a story of a young boy crying herself to sleep
every night for years
and never knowing why.
this is a story of being laughed at at school
and being beaten up on your way home
and hiding the bruises so nobody else would know.
of being paraded in front of others as an example of what not to do
of how not to be
of a freak.
And maybe you are. You…

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