when I was 5 I wanted to be a horse, so glad they didn't start transitioning me. Joking aside, I lived in a world filled with imaginary play, make believe, not one of those fantasies had to do with gender or sex, etc. I played homemaker but there was no idea of a spouse, just me with my favorite doll and her clothes and a tiny ironing board with a toy iron that did not work, plastic horses and farm animals, cartoons on saturday morning, and my imagination, I wanted to have 20 horses, I broke rocks open to see the glittery insides. My first crush was when Dad took me to the circus and I could not take my eyes off the trapeze guy, my Dad thought it was so cute. Some boys were nice and some were mean, but I did not think of them as "boyfriends" I kind of knew that those were for later, I knew I was a child. I thought babies came from being married, it was part of the deal. I was allowed to be a child with childs games and imaginations. Found out about the "facts of life" from a friend, and when she told me, I immediatly thought, well, my parents didnt do that, maybe hers did becuase they were Lutheran, but we were roman Catholics and definitely did not do that gross thing. I was 10. I asked my mother and she told me that was not anything to talk about and that was that. Irish Catholic born 1950.
when I was 5 I wanted to be a horse, so glad they didn't start transitioning me. Joking aside, I lived in a world filled with imaginary play, make believe, not one of those fantasies had to do with gender or sex, etc. I played homemaker but there was no idea of a spouse, just me with my favorite doll and her clothes and a tiny ironing board with a toy iron that did not work, plastic horses and farm animals, cartoons on saturday morning, and my imagination, I wanted to have 20 horses, I broke rocks open to see the glittery insides. My first crush was when Dad took me to the circus and I could not take my eyes off the trapeze guy, my Dad thought it was so cute. Some boys were nice and some were mean, but I did not think of them as "boyfriends" I kind of knew that those were for later, I knew I was a child. I thought babies came from being married, it was part of the deal. I was allowed to be a child with childs games and imaginations. Found out about the "facts of life" from a friend, and when she told me, I immediatly thought, well, my parents didnt do that, maybe hers did becuase they were Lutheran, but we were roman Catholics and definitely did not do that gross thing. I was 10. I asked my mother and she told me that was not anything to talk about and that was that. Irish Catholic born 1950.
Yup and those Catholics were doing that gross thing more than most, with the size of our families!