Member
How Do You Identify?: human femme spitfire
Preferred Pronoun?: she/her
Relationship Status: it's official!
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: east coast USA
Posts: 1,167
Thanks: 3,758
Thanked 3,220 Times in 753 Posts
Rep Power: 21474850
|
I was in first grade (7 years old) when I had my moment. There was a boy in my class who was the only person who could keep up with me academically. We wrote our second grade play together (it was about dinosaurs and a time machine, and a bunch of child archaeologists), had friendly competitions / discussions regarding schoolwork, and interviewed for the gifted school at the same time. I told my parents I was going to marry that particular boy because he was named "Jesse Anderson", and that way I would never have to change my last name.
There has always been a part of me that knew I could never capitulate to patriarchal restrictions on my life.
__________________
The joy of discovery is certainly the liveliest that the mind of man can ever feel. - Claude Bernard (1813-78)
|