Adolescence: Identity Without a Map

🌿 PART XXII - WE WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO EXIST

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Just a note before we begin:
what follows comes from my body, my lineage, my survival.
If you’re here, read with reciprocity —
not as a consumer, but as a witness.

If childhood was about knowing without words, adolescence was about being asked to explain myself before I knew what I was explaining.

The body still knew.

But now the world wanted names.

Identity.
Intent.
Motivation.
Direction.

Questions arrived faster than language could keep up.