Gonna cry abt smth that doesn't really mean much but it made me feel things [positive things! I think!]
I was digging through a bag I used for most of high school that broke just a couple terms before I was meant to leave, clearing it out of anything useful before getting rid of it.
In one pocket there was a bunch of rubbish but two things stood out, a little red plastic heart, off of like a kids ring or something? Like y'know plastic jewelry? That kind of thing. And a clickety clackety trans pin that I got in S3, when I started really questioning if I was a 'girl'. It's noisy, if you move it at all it shakes and clicks. And I just kind of picked it up and cried.
When I started questioning my identity nobody really supported me, and everyone that did turned out not to be a very good person. And at the time I doubted I'd be able to push through it, I didn't think I'd get out of high school, that I'd ever feel like myself. But now? I'm out! I start uni in 2 months! Move out too! And I'm expressing myself pretty freely. I'm a gender-vague emo and I'm happy [enough]. Ofc there's still stuff I'm working on, but I'm here! Im doing this! And I'm me, in a way. Idk
It made me happy, in a sad way. Sad for what she went through, but happy that I pushed to this point. Not proud of some of the stuff that happened along the way, but it got me here, so here we are.
Anyways, yay!
The pin and heart in question -












