So the kind of boy I was, or that I was told to be, you were kind of this like half-gladiator, half-dude who, you know, was supposed to have as many girls as possible and work until your heart exploded, have no fear, you know.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was a boy, suddenly treated like the men and expected to act like them.
I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.
In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
I started to realize I wasn't like every other boy.
I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl among boys.
In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
I wasn't like most girls.
I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.
Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.
My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.