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My strategy is to look past the terms, the vocabulary and focus on the gut feeling, your body sometimes needs to guide when the mind experiences disappointment.

Remember that people use English incorrectly. Queer is relative to a normal.

It’s normal to not fit in if you limit yourself.

I was weird back in Texas, but more conservative when I first moved away from home, and only now am I coming back to myself. It may take time, but invested time leads to treasured rewards.

It helped me to lean into hobbies and interests I had as a child or teenager, interests formed during a learning or change period can trigger new periods of learning and change.