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So, about the whole "I didn't experience girlhood like other women." thing...

That always bothered me. It bothered me for the longest time after I transitioned. Stuck in my thoughts like a splinter in the mind's eye.

I felt kind of like a fake because I spent the first 17 years of my life trying to play a boy but fucking up in fairly fucked up ways. I was bad at it but I tried. I really tried.

And a part of me has felt a bit of inadequacy and shame over the fact that I bothered trying.