Having a friends to lovers romance would be great, sadly I’ll need to make friends that aren’t either in a relationship or straight (I seem to be lacking those sadly)
I- well if you see me when I am anywhere but work you’ll definitely think “Oh that one married a guy and will totally be a stay at home mum”. I really want to cut my hair short, but my face is too round for that (it didn’t work when I was 13 it won’t work now), and I won’t lie I absolutely looove the girly kind of clothes (but still, just assuming is so rude). “Oh little girl why did your little friend called you a boy?” Me trying to explain the concept of being non-binary to an old lady I’ve never met before.
Thanks for coming to my Ted talk I had no idea I had so many emotions about this.
And oh god yeah explaining nonbinary to strangers?? No thanks just assume I'm a woman I'll take the hit. (Hell, explaining nonbinary to my *parents* is something I don't ever even intend to try so strangers? No)
Also "I had no idea I had so emotions about this" is how every single one of my fics starts RIP
When my eldest came out as our daughter, her elderly grandparents rolled with it and adjusted pretty quickly to “she.” But when we acquired a nonbinary bonus kid they had a tough time, never having fully grasped the use of “they” for a known person.
This book, which we gave them for Christmas that year, helped a lot:
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