The child I was not is that person everyone expected me to be, who could have lived their childhood peacefully, being accepted and respected by others.
There is a fairly common experience among people who belong to the LGBT community: many of us live our childhoods and adolescences in the shadow of the children we were not.
The child I was not is that person everyone expected me to be. It is the normative child, fitting the expectations of a world that already had an idea of how one should be simply because they were born with a certain body in a certain society. It is the child who could have lived their childhood peacefully, accepted and respected by other kids, the one who would not have worried their family, the one who could have developed at the same pace as the rest.
This book is a journey. A story about family and social relationships in a queer life. About survival against LGBTphobia. And it is an attempt to answer some questions:
How has not being the child we were expected to be affected us as LGBT adults?
What would I have liked to know when I was a teenager beginning to discover my sexual orientation and way of expressing myself?
What could we make children, parents, and society as a whole aware of to gradually change the lives of thousands of LGBT people?
