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Life as strange as fiction : Books and Covers  [message #78146] Thu, 30 September 2021 03:24 Go to previous message
Pedro

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[font-size=120%]They say life imititates art.
My story for Timmy's 'Books and Covers' challenge, 'Statements' featured a girl raised as a boy.

The news feed on my iPad showed me this report from Birmingham Live, the on line face of the Birmingham Mail. (Brum UK that is.) dated 27 Sept.:


Mum who wanted daughter raised son as a girl for seven years
The Reddit user shared how his mum had always wanted a daughter - and so raised him as one for two thirds of a DECADE
By James Rodger
Reddit users have been left floored after a user reevaled they had been raised as a girl for the first seven years of their life - despite being a boy. The Reddit user shared how his mum had always wanted a daughter - and so raised him as one for two thirds of a DECADE.
The Redditor wrote: "Everyone around me already knows that I was brought up by foster families because I had a s*** early childhood. I deliberately keep it vague and say stuff like "I'd rather not go into it" so that people will just assume I was abused in some way and they'll stop asking about it." 
They added: "The truth is that for the first 7 years of my life, I was brought up as a girl by my pshyco birth mother who really really really wanted a daughter and didn't let the snag of giving birth to a boy stop her from trying to raise one."She was a pretty successful professional in a legal field (not entirely sure what) and had me via anonymous sperm donor from a fertility clinic. She found out i was a boy at a late ultrasound and then moved across the country."Gave birth to me at home and continued to move about until I was 5 or so. It was just the two of us all my life, we had contact with other people, of course, but they rarely got very close. I had lots of friends, but was always supervised."
He added: "I found out way way after that my mother's strong puritanical christianity was a lie she used to explain why she was so strict about me being 'private' and never letting anyone see me get changed or anything.

i just acccepted all of this as fact, having never been told anything different."I was sent to a religious school for girls and had a really great childhood. i was a bit of a tomboy, and played with lego and toy animals, rather than dolls and stuff, but that's not unusual and no one ever questioned i was a girl - even me."I knew about men and women, but had never really seen much of naked people. my mother never ever spoke to me about it, but i kinda had the impression that when i grew up and got boobs and stuff, my d*** would kinda fall off or something and i would be a woman, and other kids would keep their dicks and they'd be men. I dunno, to be honest, i never really thought about it."
They added: "Anyway, I carried on with my happy girlhood and had a bunch of friends and everything was great until I was seven and a teacher accidentally spilt a cup of hot coffee over me at school. The liquid soaked through my clothes and was scalding me so the staff immediately stripped me out of my dress and underwear to get the hot coffee away from my skin. And then they found out."
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/mum-who- wanted-daughter-raised-21703501

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