"not only can live outside those systems, I can thrive as who I am."

[cosmolinguist]

I see so much of myself in this person's life! I knew they were my age before they said, just from their description of junior high.

And of course so much is different too. I wish I could write anything as good as this.

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[otter]

it's too much for me to read today, but I'm hoping to remember to come back and read the rest of it. I got to where they talk about Butler and the other author.

[cosmolinguist]

Yeah it took me a long time to read it all -- I've had the tab open for months!