To this day interviewers ask me, "When did you know you were different?" I use that question to make a broader point: I never felt that I was different. Deep down, all of us want the same things -- we are all so very much alike. We want acceptance and freedom and recognition and happiness. So I never felt different in the context of whether or not I was a part of humanity. I never realized I was different because I could plainly see that I wasn't. What I did realize (and what I couldn't comprehend or articulate as a kid) is that people treated me differently. I knew that I was just like everyone else, but the way I am and they way I express myself seemed to be a huge problem for everyone else. People could never let me be, and it was incredibly mysterious.
-- Jeffrey Marsh, Nonbinary Memoirs of Gender and Identity, p. 75
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