No my work is not autobiographical in the sense of "things that have happened", so much as some stories representing subconscious desires and fears I've had growing up. Except possibly with the exception of Beyond The Dreamer's Edge and Simply Pace and my poetry.
Even then it's better think of it as percent autobiography rather then true autobiography.
There are various reasons I will never write my true autobiography. Most of it has to do with things I'd rather keep secret until I write it for publication after I am dead, like things I've done in high school that embarrassed me. Pressing me for these details at Blackman High School (Murfreesboro, Tennessee), will most likely just make me freeze up and refuse completely.
I had went by John Matthew Guffey then, but that's not my name and was never really me to begin with. Don't misunderstand, for those who went to that school, that's not why I transitioned rather it was symptomatic of my sex abuse I had while abused by my parents.
But I apologies for all those I hurt. Never meant to make you cry. This is possibly the one thing, if I could do my YA years over again I wouldn't do. But sometimes your life experience shapes your perspective.
Just not sure if changing it would change my perspective. For me time travel has never been an aspect of wish fulfillment, it would be more of a psychological study on regret.
Before you ask, no I never raped anyone. Shove up transphobes. I'm not going to be your shining example of why trans people are evil. No TJ raped me and a friend, and had that friend raped me.
But it wasn't her fault, he made her do it.
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