“Today, it is clear to me: had I not been indifferent to the ordered, purportedly happy world of the norm, had I not been thrown out by my own family, had I not preferred my monstrosity to your heteronormativity, had I not chosen my sexual deviance over your sexual health, I would never have been able to escape… or, to be more precise, would never have been able to decolonize, disidentify, debinarify myself. In leaving the cage of sexual difference, I experienced ostracization and social rejection, but none of that was as disastrous, as painful, as the destruction of my life force, which would have been required of me in accepting the norm. Everything I have become I probably owe to the indifference to mental health I developed during my teenage years, buoyed up by books, in that Spanish town where it seemed that my future had been written by God Himself, and later translated into various languages by doctors and psychoanalysts.”
— Paul B. Preciado, Can the Monster Speak?
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