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schools slowly approaching. thinking about this, i suffered a year at that high school. i saw all of it. i experienced the transphobia, and maybe a little of homophobia, plus just in general some rude people. i don't want to go back to that school for sophmore year. i don't wanna go back, please don't make me go back. it caused me so much stress and so many breakdowns, i don't want to experience that again. i don't want to go back to that school and people introduce me to new people as dead name, i don't want to watch the friends i make eventually devolve and start calling me dead name again. i don't want people to look at me and say "hey, **deadname**, is that you? ive heard stuff of someone named river or something but didn't really believe it."
"you look really weird. why do you look like a boy? you shouldn't look like one. you're a girl."
i don't want people to expose me either. im (kind of) passing well now, and the friends i have who know and introduce me to a new person, introduce me as "hey, this is my TRANSGENDER FRIEND *deadname*. they want to be called river though, so do that. SHE would be very happy with it." even though there might've been good intentions, that's not how you- That's not how i want to be introduced.. I just want someone at that fucking school that hasn't known me my entire life (that's the main issue, im going to the high school in the town ive lived in for all 15 years of my life. see the problem?) to say "hey, this is my friend river. he's pretty cool, i hope you guys become friends :)"
i just want out of this town...