One thing that everyone seems to forget is that we are more than a label.

I am human. Undeniably flawed, three dimensional, strange, emotional, and always human.

I'm just like you, I have friends and family and people I like, and people I don't. I get crushes, I feel love (platonic or romantic { although not everyone feels romantic love, that doesn't make those individuals less human} and familial too), I get heartbroken, I feel loneliness, I feel just like you do. the only real difference is that I express and feel those emotions towards something different than you.

Actually, not even, I like men, I like women, and everything in between and outside of. If you're a decent person, and I feel compatibility and closeness in that way, then yes I could fall for you. I guess I just have a few more options than most. doesn't mean id cheat or that id do anything to go behind some ones back just to be with several people. it definently doesn't mean that its easy for me to find someone to love, either.

Honestly I'm just a bit tired of all the stigma. I'm too young to be so angry at the world. I just want the world to see me as I am. Human.

I know that I am not alone. But for now I am in a constant state of anxiety, praying that the wrong person won't find out, praying that I'll lead a normal life, hopefully sooner rather than later, and just dreading the day when I have to face the music, buck up and tell the people I am most terrified of knowing.

I just want to be seen as me. As the girl you've known all along, the one you held when I was born, the one you watched when both my parents were working so hard to give me the life I have, the one who made you smile and cry happy tears and laugh and, ugh. I'm still the same person. Nothing's changed. You just don't know me as well as you think you do.

I just want to count as human. I don't want to be 'other-ed'. It's not that hard.