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because it's nonbinary week

shout out to nonbinary people!

we all are cool

we deserve space. we deserve recognition. we deserve representation. we deserve being remembered of. we deserve being included. we deserve respect.

we are real and important

⠀

yayyy!!!!!!!!!

So – since it’s #NationalComingOutDay, I’d like to share my rather long, and quite personal, Good Omens story.  

For the longest time, I didn’t know what was wrong with me.  I was 41 years old, had an awesome partner, 2 awesome kids, inspiring work, and a generally incredibly lucky life.  

Except - something inside me was broken.  

I was unable get past platonic love.  I could no longer stand the thought of physical intimacy, with anyone.  I would get actively angry about being related to in an even remotely sexual way.  

I hadn’t always been like this.  I couldn’t pinpoint when this had started, or when I realised it was even a Thing, but it had grown over the years.  My partner (an incredibly patient, gentle and loving person) never pushed me to talk about it - I couldn’t, I just had no words around these emotions - but I could feel his sadness when I’d shut any intimacy down.

For a long time, I thought maybe I had become asexual. That can happen.  Maybe that’s what had happened.  It didn’t feel completely right though.  I still wanted, I just: couldn’t bring myself to be that way with someone without all these negative emotions bubbling up.  And it wasn’t a physical thing - I wasn’t unhappy with my body, overly squishy though it is.  So where did these feelings come from?  These distant undercurrents of loathing and wrongness, this wild anger that would consume me at that thought of being thought of in that way, by anyone. Why did I feel like this?  

Then one simple thing happened which literally changed everything for me.

I watched Good Omens.

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