The kids are alright when they’re treated like themselves…

  • roawre@feddit.ch
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    1 year ago

    It is more than “a name that they want to be called”. Sometimes people don’t fit in the social constuct that was assigned to them without their choice. What you describe is someone affirming themselves by themselves. When we are denied the right to define ourselves, that can be devastating.