this teen asks "have you ever thought about being the opposite gender," not yet knowing that there were infinitely more than two genders, and not yet knowing that it wasn't a boy
its then-friends laughed at it and said "no, that's dumb," and its soul broke into two
one part was ashamed and wanted to make themself small, to just be what the world, their parents, and their friends expected of it
the other part wanted so badly to prove these then-friends wrong.




