'What I'd tell my younger self if I could.'
I see it in the stories my son Henry brings home from school, where he learns what’s cool by watching the other kids.
While I hope that the process of adjusting and comparing himself to his peers remains as sweet in his progressive school, where inclusion is an articulated part of its ethos, I know it will only get harder as he gets older. Maybe cakes were embarrassing because they was messy and old-fashioned. All I knew was that having the right cookie cake at my birthday felt like one way I could reduce the otherness I felt inside me, since it was my personal hobby to pull at the threads of my hand-knitted self confidence and unravel it when no one was watching.
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