My Special Unique Life
This very true moment in my life was quite hilarious to me and I still laugh at
it today. My mother bought girls' clothes before I was born into the modern
world. The reason why was that the doctor refuse to tell my parents about
the baby's gender. My parents both thought that it is going to be a girl;
instead I, a boy came out of my mother's belly. Surprise! They thought I was
a girl because I was 5 pounds at birth and really small. At that time there
weren't any good vitamins/supplements for my mother to take, so I lack a lot
of vitamins and nutrients in my body.
My body weight was below the average for all newborn male babies. My
parents didn't decide to buy boy clothes and instead, I was wearing girl
clothes all the way up to 8 years old. The reason behind it was that my
parents bought way too many girly clothes for my baby shower and plus I got
more girly clothes from all my relatives. I wore a pink dress going outside my
home. Nobody noticed that I was wearing the wrong gender type of clothes
while walking in the city. I didn't have much hair back then so people didn't
really know my true gender. I didn't mind myself of wearing the wrong
gender-based clothes because no one knew so I just went on with it and
ignore the feeling of sense of embarrassment to myself like it never ever
happen to me. I was very happy at that age roaming around and having fun
with my cousins in wearing opposite-gender clothes. My parents and
relatives were chuckling and giggling about how I looked in female clothes. I
was too young to know what a sense of embarrassment felt like. My parents
took a lot of childhood photos of me wearing all different variety styles of
unmanly clothes.
I also struggled with hypermobility syndrome, I think, but I'm not really sure.
I haven't got diagnosed with it yet. Since my childhood, I am quite flexible
and my joint can easily move past beyond the normal range, which resulted
in my joints being dislocated. Sometimes, I can even see my bones sticking
out of my skin. I experienced pain in my arms, legs, and ankle; almost all
parts of my body. The pain I felt was agonizing throughout my dislocation. I
get these joint dislocations quite frequently, but I try not to stretch too hard.
The dislocation just happens and I can't really control it. Sometimes, I can
feel that I'm about to dislocate it, and then I switched my body position so it
doesn't go further.
Nowadays, all the challenges I faced before and still faced today shaped me
into who I am truly. The experiences that I went through in my life taught me
some life lessons that no matter how different you are; you are always
unique and special from others. I like to be unique and special from others so
that way I'm not the same as other people around me and people can
differentiate me from other people.
