My name was a very popular name of its era that began with the letter C and when I was born apart from saying "Congratulations" to my Mommy, They announced I was a boy and everybody congratulated my parents on having another son and from that day that's what I was.
It means different things such as when we were at junior and infant school we form lines to enter our class after recess so I have to line up with a boy and we boys let the girls go through first.
It means we have our own games although to be honest nobody really wants to play with me and we play different school games in Games compared to girls such as soccer although I do join them for Rounders and we have different teachers for this.
Because our school is in rural district we don't have any special facilities and indeed our school is very much Victorian so the other thing is we have to change and clean ourselves in the cloakrooms.
We also have our own outdoor toilets which to be honest I don't feel comfortable in and indeed do go at different times to most of the boys.
You see this "Boy" thing is a very big thing in our world as we're expected to hang out in boy spaces and girls keep theirs to themselves.
I know how to spot straight off who I should be in the company of: They should be wearing grey shorts like I do and talk in a slightly gruff way, leading which is what boys do and at least as convention has it not in dresses or skirts.
I love being a boy.
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