PTSD
Fleeing the USA
Have you ever woken up from a dream and looked at the world around you and been like "thank god I'm not there in real life?" I feel like that right now, except none of it was a dream. It all was real life. A stark
PopeSimonX
I'm Simon, a trans man who grew up in a ridiculously huge Mormon family. I'm hella queer and very happy with my life choices. As a child, I wanted to be an author, a teacher and a parent. Today, I do all 3, just not in the ways I expected.
TheLifeofSimon
Kindness is the Logical Choice
When I was a kid, I watched Star Trek a lot. It wasn't as much as my best friend, whose dad was obsessed with it and recorded every episode on the VHS. It also was definitely more than any of my other classmates. My favorite series was Star
Kismet
Kismet
The definition of kismet is "fate" or "destiny". I don't know why, but in my brain, but fate and destiny don't do justice to kismet. It's the magic of everything working just right. The energy is like that of the
The Gay Agenda
When I was a kid, I heard a lot of bullshit about "the gays". I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s. Gay was an insult slung at anyone and anything you didn't like. I never was okay with that. Even when I was my
Being My Own Little Weirdo Self
When I was a young adult, I used to call myself a walking contradiction. I felt like I was consistently dancing between the two ends of any spectrum I came in contact with. That dichotomy only got worse as I aged. I was the happiest depressed person I knew. I
It's Been 40 Days...
At some point in my life, someone told me that in the bible, when they used the number 40, it rarely, if ever, actually meant "40" of the thing. It was just the then culturally relevant story-telling exaggerated way for saying "Yeah, there were a lot of
TheLifeofSimon
That One Time I Got A Boner...
Before we can begin the Saga of the Boner, there are a couple of useful terms for the uninitiated. 1. To Pack (verb): Stuffing something into your pants/underwear/jockstrap/special-packing-apparatus in order to appear like you have a larger dick. 2. Packer (noun): The "something" you uses
What do I do about Gratitude?
Did you know the word gratitude can be a trigger for trauma? Me either. But I guess it can be! I'm actually living that fun reality right now. It's wild to me, because, on the one hand, YES BE FUCKING GRATEFUL! It makes such a huge
Be Patient With Me, I'm from the 1980s
One of the fun things that happens with having Surprise Step Kids is I get to feel really, really, old. The other day, I was trying to explain to the 12 yo about how dial-up internet worked. He knew the sound it made, but he didn't really get
Assigned Sex: Adult
Last week, I had nose surgery. The finest rhinoplasty the uninsured can buy! It turns out, I haven't been able to breathe adequately through either nostril in years. It's a whole thing that only got addressed because I had a weird "allergic" reaction to
Family, Isn't It About... Time?
If you don't recognize the sentence from my title, you did not grow up in Utah during the 1990s. I did. I have that sentence engrained on my brain. I remember as a kid rotating between being inspired and being horrified by the sentence. Sometimes it would motivate
Radical Acceptance
The world is a dumpster fire. I don't know what else to say about it beyond that. It just is. I've worn out my usage of the phrase "it is what it is" for the year and we're not even through January