I would have really appreciated knowing more on the modern take when I was growing up:
- Gender's just a construct, don't worry so much about it. You can like 'girl stuff'.
- Not all surgery's like the horror stories of Tijuana.
- A lot of people will try to suicide at least once.
Otherwise for me, it's closer to what was being said at me giving me false expectations:
Them:
"You better go to college if you don't want to work at Walmart."
Me:
/ goes to college
/ gives away free samples at Walmart
Me:
/ tries to explain to folks who won't listen about my sleep problems and other clearly off atypical weirdness
Them:
"There's nothing wrong with you, you're just creative."
/ proceeds to assume I'm just being stubborn
Me:
/ gets an art degree, last minute double majors in psychology based on elective credits
/ sees what's wrong with me wasn't in my head as diagnosis' follow
/ has already failed at life by this time
Them:
"Oh."
Beyond that, I mostly wish I could have transitioned while growing up. I feel like I was born for right now as if it should have been decades ago. I guess if they'd believed my mental illness they might have caved and had me all hopped up on pills growing up, then I'd just be here rambling about that instead.
Overall though my childhood was pretty good, I got more than I deserved out of it, and my folks were pretty frank and conversational with me as opposed to treating me purely as an age group.
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