Hip Displasia & Other Details
I think it's obvious that I was a little different from the get-go. I had a condition called hip displasia which required me to wear this plastic brace between my legs for almost a year and a half. Basically my hip socket didn't fully fit the ball portion of the upper thigh bone. I find this to be an apt metaphor for always feeling like I didn't fit;
like a square peg in a round world.
Still it had its perks - I was able to do the splits on command for years afterward. This would have come in handy had I pursued cheerleading, but after one humiliating season on a Catholic cheer squad in 5th grade, wherein I was ALWAYS the base in the pyramid, I quit to pursue other ways to cheer up the world around me
Me? A few things come to mind.
Perfectly imperfect (TM?)
An unsure "writer" (is there any other kind?)
A voracious reader and lover of all things "words"
A person who also MUST have music in my life
Deep thinking, reflective, but someone who laughs heartily most days
Always trying to figure out life from all sorts of vantage points - factual, emotional, physical, spiritual, psychological, cynical, hopeful, and often comical (especially when it's painful)
Someone who has been diagnosed with OCD
(Obsessive Compulsive Disorder) - I think sans OCD I'd
still see the world in an out of the ordinary way (and I'm okay with that)A self-doubter
A woman, a mom, a wife (I'm gay), a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a friend, an employee
Just a regular person, really...
...with a bad McDonald's Diet Coke habit