Guest guest Posted June 27, 2001 Report Share Posted June 27, 2001 Crow-- We're watching the same TV shows! The people born with the condition you mentioned in your earlier post are known as Guevodoces. Odd that I took note of that--it was on TV a few weeks before I heard from the old friend who has been through many significant changes. Guess I tuned in for a reason. Thank you for the links. I think that I now know which questions I can feel comfortable asking my friend and which are better left alone for fear of sounding patronizing or condescending. I can now work on being supportive and getting accustomed to the fact that the same heart and mind are in a very different package. I suppose I can stop feeling guilty about being partially responsible for these changes--I guess it wouldn't have mattered even if I HAD 'given in' on prom night! Relieved and enlightened, Florie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 29, 2001 Report Share Posted June 29, 2001 Florie: Thanks for that term, " huevo doces " would be " eggs at twelve " . That sounds right. LOL... two of my very good friends in HS that I dated " came out of the closet " later. I wasn't all that surprised; they had always been very kind and sensitive, communicative and very neat... and both had gotten along famously with my mother ;-) At least, the climate is easier for people to explore and admit their preferences rather than sublimating them; my mother's first husband became rather cruel and warped from trying to repress his preference for men and live the expected hetero life with a wife and children (they had two girls, what kind of karma is that). It is interesting to me, to compare and contrast the way different societies respond to the same human issues in their own unique ways, for good or ill. In my mind, we should learn to accept that others are different, but rather than the political correctness of tolerance, which is just another word for being in a coma, IMO, I think that if something someone else is doing bothers us, we should look inside us to see why; dig past the dogma and the societal norms, past the childhood programming and our various forms of education and peer pressure to see what our annoyance, anger or fear is all about. It's seldom about what we think it is. Blessings, Crow richard Gray wrote: > > Crow-- > > We're watching the same TV shows! > > The people born with the condition you mentioned in your > earlier post are > known as Guevodoces. Odd that I took note of that--it was on > TV a few weeks > before I heard from the old friend who has been through many > significant > changes. Guess I tuned in for a reason. > > Thank you for the links. I think that I now know which > questions I can feel > comfortable asking my friend and which are better left alone > for fear of > sounding patronizing or condescending. I can now work on being > supportive > and getting accustomed to the fact that the same heart and mind > are in a > very different package. > > I suppose I can stop feeling guilty about being partially > responsible for > these changes--I guess it wouldn't have mattered even if I HAD > 'given in' on > prom night! > > Relieved and enlightened, > > Florie > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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