On Writing as a Survival ToolI said somewhere that I wrote my first story at age ten; that’s not quite true. I wrote one way earlier than that, but I borrowed the characters names from a library book! Damn, I’d completely forgotten that. My mom liked it, so there’s that. Just had to put that out there.
Some people turn to drink, some commit suicide. So many teenagers choose that path. And so many trans people do as well. We hear a lot about a male who goes into the garage and puts his gun in his mouth. Some carry it out, some know that something has to change. I chose to let my kids have a weird parent instead of a dead one, that’s how I put it when time and circumstances coincided to let, or make, me be able to change. My coping skills had stopped working, and my need to pretend was losi
