In the Middle
I’m really excited to go into middle school. Most kids would be like, “no, I don’t want to go back to school at all,” but I’m really, really excited. We’ve already done like a shadow day and it was so much fun, I just want to keep going back. I can’t wait to see my friends again and that’s like the most exciting part of my life right now.
Middle school is like-I don’t what it’s called-it’s like one of those marks in your life. It’s like: elementary school, middle school, high school, college. I’m just super excited to start it. At my school, we do it where in elementary school, you stay in one classroom and you have the same teacher, but at middle school we switch classes and we have a different teacher for everything, and we get to pick electives. It’s something different from how we do it in elementary school.
I really want to work with animals, but I also really like learning about different blood types. I just went to a science camp and we learned a lot about genes and blood types. It really helped that I had one of my friends with me because that really helps me be able to make new friends. I feel like since my school is really really tiny, everyone is best friends with everybody, so I don’t feel like I have to make friends a lot. But that’s a thing I might be worried about for high school. That I won’t know anybody.
Day of Silence
My mom was telling me about the Day of Silence and I was asking her if I could do it at school. So I wrote a note to my teacher and asked her if I would be able to do the Day of Silence during lunch, and she suggested that I do it the whole day, and I got a bunch of my classmates to join in and do it the whole day with me. It was really fun. It was also really hard and some kids even got kind of bullied by doing it. Their friends would tell them not to do it and they’d try to get them to talk. I don’t think it was really that they didn’t believe in it, I think it was more that they didn’t want to do it and they kind of missed talking to their friends. Because at my school everyone is really supportive of LGBT people and no one gets bullied. But I think at that point they were just kind of annoyed that they couldn’t talk to anybody.
I’ve always believed really strongly in lots of things. Human rights has kind of been a theme around my house. But I also believe really strongly in animal rights. I don’t know, they’re really close together. For school we had to write a persuasive essay on something, and I wrote about how I didn’t want people to test cosmetics on dogs because it kills them. I wrote about this one dog that was captured, and they tested on it, and it killed the dog. All my friends were saying, “why wouldn’t you test on dogs, it doesn’t matter to us,” and I was saying, “if you were put in a cage and caught and tested on and then you died, how would you feel?” And they said that was a really good point, and it made sense not to test on dogs
Separate But Equal
My moms inspire me a lot. Sometimes I get mad at them for pushing me and then I realize, “oh yeah, they’re pushing me so that I can be a better person.” They’ve done so much for me and they’ve given me such great opportunities. Without them, I couldn’t be able to do this interview, or anything. I guess I call my moms different names, but there isn’t one I favor at all, or one I spend more time with. They’re exactly the same to me. Their personalities are different, I guess. But I don’t think that one is better, or one is more important, or one does more. I think they’re both on the same level. My mom Theresa had a sperm donor and she carried me in her stomach. The same thing for both of my brothers. They made sure that my brothers and I are blood related.
I like to remember when it was just me and my moms and we would hang out a lot. Not that I don’t love having my brothers, but…I remember when I was little and we went to the botanic garden. We have pictures of us by some type of flower, I don’t remember which one. I just love to stare at that picture on the wall because it brings me back to when I was in the Botanic Garden, and I just really love that spot now. I don’t know if it’s my favorite spot, but I just like remembering that spot. I don’t go there every time, but I just like remembering it.
My house feels really comfortable and I know it really well and I know that my family’s there, and it’s just like a really nice place to be. My closet’s pretty cool, because it’s a walk-in closet, and when my friends come over, we play in there. We once played a game where we all hid in there. And we always put on all of my clothes and do makeup and show my mom. Then my mom gets mad that it’s messy in my closet, but it’s worth it.