Hashtag middle school, amIrite? But I also teared up a little.
I think I just don’t like anyone at my school.” I don’t think I’m gay, but I’m not sure if I’m straight. Then I asked, Do you have any crushes? “Not really.
“At least bi.” I practiced active listening. “She has a crush on this kid who was born a girl but who is now a boy, so she assumes she is …” she paused, searching for the right descriptor. “She doesn’t know what she is, but she assumes she is at least not straight,” my daughter reported. Earlier this year, my 11-year-old came home from school and told me that one of her sixth grade friends had come out to her.
