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Community Conversation => Transgender talk => Topic started by: darkblade on February 18, 2015, 09:51:07 AM

Title: First day of kindergarten
Post by: darkblade on February 18, 2015, 09:51:07 AM
My mom always told me how on my first day of kindergarten as soon as she dropped me off at school and left, (the teacher told her) that I started crying insanely and wouldn't stop I think until the school day ended. I never thought much of this, thought it was something fairly common for kids to do and stuff, and it didn't seem like my mom had much to say about it either. I remember nothing of that day of course, I was less than 4 years old probably.

But lately my mom's been getting worried about how I've been crying lately (I never cry), and told me a few weeks ago that I'd never cried like this except for that day, which got me thinking.. Then I remembered that before I went to kindergarten back in my country, my family spent about a year in the Netherlands and I went to preschool there, and then it struck me that it was quite weird that I cried at my first day of school when I'd already been going to preschool with no problems in a country whose language I didn't even speak. So I asked my mom about it a few days ago, and she said it was something she always wondered about. That she always thought it was really weird, and that she kept pressing everyone in the school for details of what made me cry like that, she didn't get any answers. She also said that after that day, I became a very different person. I always thought that I was always a very quiet, reserved kid (still am), but apparently before that day I was a very active kid. She also said I became very clingy, while I wasn't before..

Now I'm getting quite concerned. I'm almost certain that something happened that day, I just can't for the life of me figure out what it could be. What are the possibilities? I don't even know. I'm just worried that maybe, whatever happened is still affecting me today, and that maybe it could shed some light into my situation in a way... It seems pretty likely that something did happen though, right?