i want to be referred to as mike weir one from now on. —— as andi from now on.y scared of all of the people around me. what they would think. i'm so happy! after the volcano exploded, all of these flowers and trees and life flourished because the ground was nourished. but it's not all peaches and cream, sunshine and lollipops. things didn't go as planned. i can't live like this any more. fear really does do something to a person. this is my story. this is who i am. i actually was born in queens new york. i was there for five years until he moved straight from there to texas and we have not moved anywhere ever since. as a kid and i definitely worked a lot of boys clothes. i did not enjoy rearing skirts, dresses, all of that. maybe that was early symptoms of my dysphoria. gender dysphoria is that the discomfort and distress in individuals whose gender identity is different from their assigned sex at birth. i did not even find out what the lbgtq even meant until my middle school years when i had access to the internet through my phone. no adults ever taught me abou