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Being grown up is overrated! I'm lots happier in my playpen with my plushies and comfy blanky ... and my computer of course so I can play with my friends. You don't have to understand ... but if you want to be my friend you do!I'm male according to biology, but inside, my inner child is a toddler girl. Sure, I watch sci-fi movies, play and run roleplaying games, geek out about science (and computers, and video games, and anime), and use too many parentheses when I write, but it all comes back to the fact that at the end of the day I take off my grownup disguise and become little me again.
This is not to say that I don't have knowledge, skills, and (heaven help us) opinions, but ... have you noticed that when two babies play together, they don't care if the other one is a boy or a girl, or what race the other one is? All those prejudices and expectations are learned, which means we silly humans could learn to live without them if we wanted to. But as a whole we just don't seem to want to. Why? Because pigeonholes are shortcuts. They allow us to quickly sort out how to interact with somebody else, because really getting to know people is hard and takes time -- time we don't have because we're too busy with our own problems.
That's scary. It's scary because I believe in parallel universes. That's right. Every person has a whole unique universe inside them, and most of us aren't even the least bit curious about exploring those parallel universes. Think of all the universes out there that will never be explored, all the beauty and power and wonder that will be lost forever. And the scariest thing of all is when somebody pretends that their universe is nothing special, crushing all that imagination and uniqueness inside them just to make life a little more convenient for somebody else. Who taught us that was the right thing to do?
I salute people who let their freak flag fly and flout the stereotypes. Maybe if more people let their inner babies out, prejudices would start to disappear. Maybe we'd start really seeing other people again.
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