Matt Bernstein

And it's like every every little queer kid, I think, can understand this.

But it's like it creates this sense of paranoia in a six year old.

Where your brain just starts operating differently because you don't want to be found out because, you know.

And I hold those memories really close because.

I cherish, not to use another overused marketing buzzword, but I cherish the journey.

The journey.

I do.

I think every day, like, I get to wake up and, like, have a job that I control.

Hashtag girlboss.

Yeah.

With like no but like where I like have my nails and my makeup and I talk about left wing politics and I talk about the queers and the sissies and the pansies and all of us getting to live the lives and the freedom that we deserve.

And it is thrilling.

It's thrilling to be yourself.

I don't take it for granted, even though we all should.

We all should because it should just be something that we get to do.

But unfortunately, it's not.

And I don't think there's virtue in struggle necessarily.

Yeah.

I don't think I'm a better person because I went through all of that.

I think it's just something bad that happened.