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Questions of gender

I have been reading a lot of books about sex and gender recently. It makes me think about my own history with it. I have never felt entirely like a woman if I am to be honest. It's not like I ever felt like a man either, though as a kid I got along better with guys than girls, and I feel like I understand guys better than I do girls. It always felt like I had to perform to be a girl. Like I carefully studied what girls were like and tried to emulate that.

As a teenager I felt like an "other." Non binary is the term they have for it nowadays. That term wasn't popularly known when I was in school. I had a condition where I had an excess of male hormones, so I do wonder if that could be why I felt....in between I guess.

As of just a year ago I fully came to accept that I was a woman. I have been embracing girly things. I hated girly things as a kid despite being a girl. I liked things boys liked which is why most of my friends were boys.

Anyways I'm just rambling. Unkind comments will be ignored.
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jehova · 36-40, M
Gender and sex are different things that distinction within society has scarcely been explored in American (western society). The distinction is still mostly unexplored. Yes a male perspective seems less regimented (more individualized in comparison); in my oppinion.
Precisely this distinction is what has America stuck with dead end politics and social norms unable to modernize. It takes time to find balance in our polarized human society. Everhthing is geared toward either men OR women. Why cannot we have overlap?
Part of the journey through life is we find ourselves wondering and thinking about who we are.
Thank you for sharing your rambling.
Baremine · 70-79, C
Women are extremely hard to understand. They intend to keep it that way. Guy are much easier to understand.
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Strictmichael75 · 61-69, M
Were you a tomboy?
You seem happy in your skin!

 
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