Though I have a few tomboyish characteristics; such as
preferring an action movie rather than a romantic one, more into sports than
into shopping, and prefer Batman over Hello Kitty any day, no matter what, I know
I’m like any other girl. Now, I may look like a girl, I may sound like a girl,
and I may act like a girl, but does that mean every girl has to have those same
aspects as I do? What if a little boy looks like a boy, sounds like a boy, but
acts like a girl? Since the day he was born, he always felt different, like he
didn’t belong, until he observed a life of a girl. In that moment he knew that
was the life he wanted, he knew he should’ve been born as a girl and not as a
boy. This is known as Gender Identity Disorder.
Psychologists have long assumed that gender depends mainly
or entirely on the way people rear their children, but that’s not the case.
Take this mother for example; her son wanted to be a girl since he was two
years old, by age 11 he began transitioning, she felt like her son died. Around
that time, her mother had to rush in and save her daughter from almost jumping
out of a window because she didn’t want to live the rest of her life being
someone she’s not. When the mother was on the Dr. Phil Show, discussing about
the situation, two psychologists explained to her, saying that the father wasn’t
there for the child, she spent most of the time with her mother. Her mother
believed they were wrong. The father was there for the child since the very
beginning, the daughter spent most of the time with him than with her mother.
They both tried to do everything unisex, but in the end they wound up dealing
with it.
Some parents don’t accept that kind of decision when it comes
to their kids, they believe treatments such as therapy or medication could
reverse that effect. But sooner or later, they have to come to the realization
that it was not a choice, it is who they are. If you were in that mothers
shoes, what would you do?
This a very interesting disorder and one that I don't find unusual at all. If someone wants to feel better about themselves they have the right to change into the person they want to be. In this case it is a little boy feeling better as a girl. I'm glad that the mother in the video accepted her now daughter but her going to a graveyard was a bit too drastic in my opinion. At least her child is alive, happy, and healthy. Yes they might have difficulties in the future with others judging them but that was their choice and family should be supportive.
ReplyDeletei believe that your child should have the right to choose what they want to be. Maybe at the right age if they don't feel comfortable with who they are. i am sick and tired of people trying to tell them what is right or wrong or trying to give them therapy because they feel its some abnormal thing they are feeling is not like you can just give then a pill and their feelings are just going to vanish. instead of trying to judge and send them to therapy we should support their decision after all its their life....
ReplyDeleteI believe that children have a definitely a mind of their own and that as much parent rearing that there is sometimes that does not work.
ReplyDeleteI do agree that everyone has a choice on how to help their children and like the lady stated she began to deal with it and avoid the therapy and not make her son feel like he was abnormal.