Cecilia Gentili

When I was a child, I thought I was an extraterrestrial, that I was a UFO.

And I told my grandmother that.

It was a really funny story.

My brother told me that they found me in a railroad, right?

One day we were like crossing a railroad and my brother told me, that's where we found you.

And mom took you with us because you were naked on the railroad as a baby.

And around the same time, I was kicked out of the bathroom in the girls' bathroom in school.

And I'm from an area of Argentina where there's a lot of UFO activity in the 70s.

So I put two and two together and I went to my grandma and I said, Grandma, I think I know what happened.

I am an alien that I was left by mistake here.

But I belong to a country, to a planet where all the girls have pee-pees like me.

And my grandmother, being the great grandmother that she was,

She says, that makes sense.

I'm pretty sure that's true.

And we slept under, you know, outside in a huge patio with trees, fruit trees that she had.

And we spent the night outside waiting for, you know, for my family from another planet to come and rescue me.

And of course that didn't happen.

You know, I was always, you know, using the girls' bathroom.

You know, I always had a tendency... Sometimes I didn't say that I was a girl, but I always said that I wasn't a boy.

That was a constant for me.