Just had a lovely train conversation with an elderly woman who was inspired to become a doctor after reading about women doctors as a kid.
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She asked me what I wanted to be as a child. I told her, truthfully, "a fighter pilot." She said that was an unusual choice for a girl.
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Growing up as a boy, what were then normal experiences have been retroactively labeled as nonconforming. I forget this sometimes.
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She also told me that she's visiting one of her 5 brothers, and in only slightly hushed tones, told me he's the gay one.
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Sometimes I find myself needing to remember that the only difference is we now have language tools to describe what has always existed.
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