From the Things I Don't Blog About Series: Part One.

[silent_five]

I am not committing myself to answering these things in order, but I just happen to be starting with the first one.

There are a handful of things that I can point to that have made me who I am. They are, I guess, a mixture of earth-shattering moments and general tendencies, and the earliest one is that I was the firstborn and my mom, young, smart,

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[soulofajedi]

Super awesome post. Thanks for the honest, thoughtful answers. : )

*insert obligatory when-I-was-seventeen-I-came-out story here*

No, I actually hadn't heard that story. "Yeah, I'm bi. So?" That was sort of my revelation too... I didn't have an Ah Ha! moment, but something I always knew. If I hadn't figured it out when I got to Lawrence and met the Yuais, I certainly would thereafter. I never told my parents, because it's really not their business and it only would have caused chaos. But you know... Of my close friends in high school, there's only one who doesn't identify as bi.

Other than that, there are plenty of things that changed my life, but not much that changed me. I've always had a fairly strong sense of myself.

This is kind of how I feel too... I've been the same person pretty much my whole life. Interests have changed, sure... But me, the "real" me inside? Not so much.

[spunkytoaster]

you should write a book.