'Not gay as in happy, queer as in "Wait, what, you wanted a response on this form?"'
Child is outing us continually, all the time, forever, by living in the world, but I remain slightly uncertain what I'm being outed as. A parent is just a person in orbit of a child, and doesn't have an identity much beyond that in most situations.
So I use the same word for myself as I've used since middle school, and remain less than gruntled that there doesn't seem to be a word for my shade of attraction, which is to say, I seem to be hit mercilessly and directly by the arrows of people at the edge of gender or who've disavowed it as a thing. "Lots of the people I date transition, and the rest make a "...gender?" face" doesn't have a flag.
Edit: Unless it's a different flavor of sick, I think it's more accurate to say you maybe never stopped being sick from the last time, it just receded for your birthday and the sea because it didn't want to get murked up and kicked out of your system for sheer cheek and ingratitude. I am sorry, though.
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Child is outing us continually, all the time, forever, by living in the world, but I remain slightly uncertain what I'm being outed as. A parent is just a person in orbit of a child, and doesn't have an identity much beyond that in most situations.
So I use the same word for myself as I've used since middle school, and remain less than gruntled that there doesn't seem to be a word for my shade of attraction, which is to say, I seem to be hit mercilessly and directly by the arrows of people at the edge of gender or who've disavowed it as a thing. "Lots of the people I date transition, and the rest make a "...gender?" face" doesn't have a flag.
Edit: Unless it's a different flavor of sick, I think it's more accurate to say you maybe never stopped being sick from the last time, it just receded for your birthday and the sea because it didn't want to get murked up and kicked out of your system for sheer cheek and ingratitude. I am sorry, though.