SATOR
TO EXTINGUISH FIRE WITHOUT WATER.
Write the following words on each side of a plate, and throw it into the fire, and it will be extinguished forthwith:
S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S
– Long Lost Friend
That little boy in kindergarten in the Minnie Mouse shirt? He knew all along that he was a boy.
In kindergarten, I came to the conclusion that I'm a boy. I'm not sure how schools are these days, but it was very much gender segregated at that time. The girls sat with the girls, the boys sat with the boys. When lining up for lunch or gym, we were in two separate lines according to gender. The girls didn't want to talk about cool stuff like bugs and Nintendo and dinosaurs. I was just endlessly frustrated that I never made a connection with any of the girls and many of them bullied me. One day, I came to the conclusion that I'm a boy. I approached the boy's table and said “I'm a boy now. Can I sit with you?” The head boy nodded solemnly and went to confer with the other boys. After a few moments, he returned and said I could sit with them. They accepted me as a boy despite my very girly holographic Minnie Mouse shirt. It was time to line up and I sat in the boy's line. The teacher huffed and approached me. “*deadname* That's the BOY'S lin...
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