“I told myself, ‘You are BUILT for this.’ My body was going to heal. I’d been through so much I’d be d*mned if THIS is what took me out.”
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“I told myself, ‘You are BUILT for this.’ My body was going to heal. I’d been through so much I’d be d*mned if THIS is what took me out.”
“We wanted to adopt siblings from the beginning. After many disappointments, I applied for two brothers I saw in a flyer. Months later, while shopping with my mom in Meijer, my caseworker called. ‘Would you like to learn more?’ I had two options: recover or die.”
“I thought Remy was broken. I didn’t realize I was putting my energy into the wrong thing.”
“I vowed to make a change, not only for my loved ones, but to give myself a chance.”
“One night when I was washing my hair, I couldn’t hold on to the shampoo. I finally decided it was time to see a doctor.”
“I found out I was pregnant the morning of my grandmother’s funeral.”
“Walls were painted blue, gendered gifts purchased, and everyone in the delivery room was shocked when I entered the world with a vagina. And before I turned one year old, I was forcibly sterilized. Or, in simpler terms, castrated.”
“To the outside, I was this happy-go-lucky, life of the party with no worries. I’d wake up with an empty bottle of wine next to my bed and no recollection of drinking it because I took an Ambien. I’d go to bed every night, begging to not wake up the next morning.”
“I was swiftly and abruptly thrust into an entirely different world than any of my friends. I sat alone in the grief and stewed.”
“I was a people pleaser. ‘If I put their needs before mine, maybe they’ll like me more.’ Deep down, I wasn’t happy with myself.”