The wall is only in some places, and its not much of a deterrent, and I wonder, if Australia was not an island, and had those borders where anyone can, and does, cross at will, if you would not see it differently.
For the record, there are somewhere between 12 and 20 million (yeah, MILLION - the number of course, depends on who is doing the counting and how) people in the US who did not enter legally. In other words, we have potentially as many illegal immigrants in the USA as Australia has Australians. Think on that Cindy.
To Hayden. *the poster and all... I have a saying at work. When people ask me a question, I often tell them I'm pleasantly ignorant on the answer, which my people know really means, "I not only don't know the answer, but when you find out, DO NOT run back here and tell me - I don't care." Or maybe I do care, but I'm busy enough. Or its just something, like, say, my kids sex life that I really didn't want to know about all that much - in fact, I actively tried not to hear that stuff.
Now you mom may well have (as most people did, and do) grown up in a world where no-one she ever knew, or heard about questioned their gender - so she may well have less than zero understanding of the issues, questions, motives, and all that - hell, its probably just Gas Music from Jupiter to her and not a single thing about it can she even begin to comprehend. So it could be that:
a) she thinks its just something that (hopefully) you might grow out of when you grow up.
b) It your problem, and she can't solve all of them for you, your moving out soon enough, leave it till then.
c) was farking insulted to the max, and at that I'm shocked that she even read the first paragraph.
Really. You live with this person. They have taken care of you. I suppose they still support you to some degree, or you'd be out. (I left at 17, I know others who did it even younger). And you write them a note?
No, you write a note that goes "Hey dad, took the car to go to the store, be back at 5." You don't write a note about something important. You do that face to face, man to man. Whatever.
As you wrote: i also really didn't want to be in the same room as her when she was reading it, anyway. No problem dude, she wasn't going to read it anyway. Problem solved. Next problem....
at the very least hearing me out, rather than dismiss me and say she honestly couldn't care less how much courage it took me to write it; she's not reading it.
She didn't have to hear it out, remember you wrote it, not spoke it. You can only hear a person out face to face, man to man (or human to human if you prefer). And it does not take some huge amount of courage to write a letter, it takes more to face the people, and even then, I'm not sure that is even courage, its just character.
Its a hella lot harder to dismiss someone who is in front of you, its damn easy to delete an email. (For future reference)
