Growing Up Without Quite Understanding
Growing through bodily changes and emerging sexual desires without knowing quite how to understand them.
MY ADOLESCENCE
Growing Up Without Quite Understanding
During those school years, my body was changing. Sexual desires were emerging, and I had my own difficulties understanding what I was experiencing.
The world around me was largely an all-boys residential school. My contact with family and life outside was limited. Within that setting, I was trying to make sense of changes that were personal, unfamiliar and sometimes confusing.
Today, I can describe this more openly. At the time, I did not have the understanding I now bring to it.
Looking back, I feel that this part of growing up needed a place in my education too. I needed help understanding my body, my desires, and how these fitted into relationships and responsible conduct.
A quality education can still leave important areas of life insufficiently understood. For me, this was one of them.
I will return to these experiences gradually. They belong in my story because they were part of the adolescent I was—and part of what I later had to understand for myself.
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