Ship of Fools

distress part of the normal ups and downs of adolescence, or is it truly dysphoria?”<br />These anxieties are exacerbated by a commonly cited statistic that 80% of children expressing cross-sex

Sorry, outbreak of real life means I've only just started re-reading ...<br />The big themes of the book seem to be adolescence / identity; relationships and family plus story and place so star

<div class="QuoteText"><br />I remember my Catholic girl-friend had a two year old nephew, and his parents were giving him a kind of early induction. Thus, pictures of Jesus on

<br />I remember my Catholic girl-friend had a two year old nephew, and his parents were giving him a kind of early induction. Thus, pictures of Jesus on the cross elicited sad face, and so on.

handle the trip than we might, with our extended adolescence; she was about to be married, after all, and leave parental control completely. And if she came of a pious family, as seems likely, chance

old at the time, right in the middle of kitty adolescence. She had aggressive play issues. She was a handful, but she was loaded with personality and intelligence, and I loved her from the beginnin

much later. The perils of a childhood and adolescence with Mission Praise as the primary hymnbook.

<br />I also have had this since adolescence. It comes in waves - twice or three times in a week, then nothing for months.<br />Mrs T who is a few years younger than me had her first ever

The thing is, I've lost a lot of weight (most of my clothes just hang on me), and I was a little under my ideal weight to start; my scoliosis, which I've battled since adolescence, has triumphed, so I

straight). I've been fighting scoliosis since adolescence, but now that the cancer has spread through my spine, it seems to be winning the war. Dammit.<br />