poserisland: When I was a kid I never felt like I fit in, I had friends and I have a great and suppo
poserisland: When I was a kid I never felt like I fit in, I had friends and I have a great and supportive family but I still always felt like an oddball. I had the hardest time in school because I was completely uninterested in all the things that little girls were supposed to do, like paint nails and wear dresses and makeup. I was called a tomboy and was told early on that I’d grow out of it as soon as I realized that boys don’t like that. The idea that if I don’t change who I am, no one will like me was terrifying. I felt completely isolated from my peers because I didn’t have a label for who I was and it seemed like everyone else did. For years I’ve been struggling with defining who I am and it took until getting to college and familiarizing myself with the LGBT+ community for me to realize that it doesn’t matter, I don’t need any particular label or definition to explain myself. I don’t need to fit into those societal norms and now that doesn’t scare me. My goal is to be the role model that my 13 year old self needed, so that anyone else who’s young and going through it won’t let the negative thoughts and self doubt win. It’s perfectly fine to not pick. -- source link