This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me,
Throw your sticks and your stones, throw your bombs and your blows,
But you're not gonna break my soul-
This is the part of me that you're never gonna ever take away from me, no.
--Katy Perry, "Part of Me"
When we last left our elementary school heroine, she routinely sat in the shrink's office, utterly confused as to why she was there.
Okay, enough with the third person.
I went to counseling on and off for about three years. And one day, a lightbulb went off. I thought about Christmas, when I was roughly 6 years old, and I cried when my great aunt got me a Barbie doll. I thought about the Herculean effort it sometimes took for my mom to get me in dresses for church. I thought about how most of my buddies were boys. I thought about how I was obsessed with baseball and played pretend games in which I was a male detective.
"I want to be a boy. I wish I was a boy" rang in my head.
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| Although it looks like someone else...even I can admit this is cute. (Age 6) |
