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In reply to the discussion: What was High School like for you. [View all]Zenlitened
(9,488 posts)15. Not only no one to talk to, but no idea WHAT to talk about.
No real way to put into words what needs discussing, even to think clearly about it.
I think that's the part that's hardest to really understand, for those who haven't Been There.
The certain, agonizing knowledge that Something's Wrong, amid a complete lack of any framework, if only some vocabulary, to even begin to sort it all out.
But as I mentioned downthread, that's been changing for the better for many years. Even for TG kids, which I once would have thought impossible.
All the openness, honesty -- and outright hard work -- of telling our stories, of making ourselves heard...
It's beginning to pay off, I'm convinced.
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