Life-Colored Glasses

This year I am going to my High School reunion.  Why, you might ask?  If my goal is a level of blending into the background then why, oh why, would I go to a place where they only knew me as male.

 

Good question.

 

I really try not to let my transition run my life.  The fact is, however, that my transition tints everything I do.  Nearly all the events of my life are affected by this rare tangent of my life.

 

So, I had to ask myself.  If I had not become Anne, would I have still gone?

 

Yes.

 

I was not tormented in school - too much anyway.  I learned to cover my mannerisms and tried to diffuse awkward moments with humor.  I had friends.  I want to see them.

 

If I were going to be a spectacle then I would have no business going at all.