the less appealing ones. My parents weren’t very stereotypical in their gender roles. My dad was the emotional one he was much more apt to crying and also getting angry. My mother was the more logical parent. She also was the leader of the house. She pretty well told my dad who, what, where, when, and how. My mother also takes care of the finances, although my dad is the major breadwinner. My dad was also the non-confrontational parent. I feel I am a good blend of my parents. I seemed to have inherited and learned most of their good traits without taking on their bad ones.In school I was the a-typical boy. I was around a lot of boys when I was young mainly due to participation in sports. When I got out of the athletic crowd I got into the artsy crowd. Through my high school years due to the crowd of girls and non-Neanderthal guys I hang around I was wrote off as a homosexual by people who didn’t know me. In my school any guy who participated in speech and drama was pretty much thought of as queer. Unfortunately what the guys who wrote me off as homosexual failed to see was that being in drama meant spending time around numerous beautiful talented young girls, and not only that the boy to girl ratio at speech tournaments was about 3 to 1 favoring the girls, which turned out to be pretty good odds even for a fat kid.In high school my best friend Jason McMurray was very feminine. He, like me, was written off as queer. Jason and I were really close, so close that we lived together one summer at CASC in the Upward Bound Math/Science program. Jason had told me that in his early childhood he had been molested by his uncle and ever since then he had weird sexual feelings. I never felt strange being around Jason because I knew him so well. During school he took a little more heat and teasing about being homosexual. It always made him very upset. We both went to CASC after high school and in his second semester he...
