The Shy Blossom

Only I never learned the Girl Things, because at no point in my life did I have the opportunity to Be A Girl. I skipped straight to being a Grown Woman. So all of the things that I would have normally learned from my older female relatives never happened.

So now it feels like every time I’m hanging out with like my sisters or something they’re like “oh what do you do with Thing?” or “I wanted to get you Thing for your birthday what kind of Thing do you like” and I have to just be like, “ I’ve never heard of Thing. I don’t know what that is. I didn’t know I was supposed to have/use/do Thing.” And then I usually get looks like, “what? How do you not know Thing? You’re a girl now right? So you should know THING?”