“I’m not like other girls”
“I’m not like other girls” is a scream for help.
It’s a girl - or a trans guy or nb person - who is feeling social distress and maybe even physical dysphoria.
It’s a person who might be socially delayed, who has trouble identifying with “other girls” - but who really has trouble identifying with their peers through no fault of their own.
It’s a girl who is terrified of being treated the way she sees girls being treated in popular media. It’s a girl who hates the way SHE is being treated by others, either because she sees that it is inherently unfair, or because HE has not yet realised he’s trans.
It’s tomboys and baby butches. It’s lesbians and bisexuals. So, so many girls and other folx will gravitate to this phrase because it feels like the only way to feel safe in a world that hates them.
Please. I was that child. I wish girls had befriended me, but I also know I was “too weird”, too much of a prickly pear, too quiet, too shy to befriend.
