My Experience Growing Up...

I was debating on how I was going to word this because it is such a long story so please bear with me as this maybe lengthy and I'll put this into sections by age. 

6 years old 
This is the earliest memory I have and at this time it is the best memory. My friends (who were older then me) and I are outside on a warm summer evening water-sliding on the front lawn. I didn't really think about my gender at the time, and it wasn't part of my life at the time since I was pre-puberty. We moved before I turned seven. 

7 years old
At this age a girl named Patricia moved into our neighborhood and with my friend Lizzy we hanged out with her. Unfortunately they wanted to play with Bratz dolls while I did play along because I wanted to be with Lizzy because we had been friends for the year. But it was great when she moved we stopped playing with dolls. 

9 years old
At this age was when I really wanted to be James Dean or at least look like him. But it was obvious even at this time which way I was going to go. A few months after I turned 9 I experienced female puberty. While my breast grew I didn't want to wear a bra, but when my mother came to pick me up from day-care she had a talk with the caretaker. When she came back we left for the day, and she said to me "you have to wear a bra" which was quite devastating to me. I squirmed in the seat and was quite upset. From that day on I wore a sweatshirt that showed none of my chest. I would arm wrestle with the boys during lunch and we would kick each others feet under the table (not due to liking). 

15 years old 
At this age my father and I were practicing boxing with out 100 lb punching bag and I loved to lift-weights. And for all intents and purposes I was a boy for this while which made me very excited. When I was at school I was well aware that there wasn't any transgender people at my High School. But at the same time I wasn't aware that there were people like me. 

18 years old 
This being the end of my teen life I finally found out what I was and why I wasn't like the other students, but even now I don't know how my best friend will act when I tell her. And this is were I'm at now.