constantly questioning their own masculinity. In school, I don’t think they actually disliked me because I was gay; it was because I was actually more confident and more masculine (and also more athletically gifted) than a lot of them. Physical and mental strength has nothing to do with gender. Just because I’m gay doesn’t make me weaker. And that made them vulnerable. So they acted out toward me. After that realization, I started not giving a shit about what they thought about me. I understood that they were just projecting. Maybe they wanted to be more like me, maybe they wanted me and
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