"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.

Comments

[barakta]

Agreed. I think Erik's writing is excellent, not the same as Aiden's but a hell of a lot less verbose.

[cosmolinguist]

Ha, yes I'll give you that. :) Blog-length suits my writing very well.