I AM A SURVIVOR
There has been a little speculation about me.
So here goes. I was born on the East Coast, but spent much of my childhood travelling around the world.
I was sexually abused as a child by someone in my own family.
I struggled with social interaction in school, most likely because of my sexuality. I did manage 10 'O' levels and 3 'A' levels.
Even though University took me to Brighton where I should have flourished on the social scene, I dropped out after the first year and moved in with my first girl friend. That was a relationship that descended into farce and almost cost me my life. It certainly left me seriously damaged.
In fact, I swore off women, deciding that a permanent relationship with a man was the only possibility of any kind of happiness. Naturally, I was wrong. Sexuality cannot be changed that easily. Naturally it failed.
And so a life on my own seemed the way forward, but a life focussing on the feminist issues of my younger days.
But a wonderful woman entered my life and so it was that we got together and pledged our lives to each other.
When my sexuality was discovered at work, I found myself without a job. Discrimination exists.
