My T doesn't push that hard. "We don't have to talk about that if you don't want to." She can get away with this because I push myself very hard. I trust her completely and I like to tackle difficult topics head-on. I have a horror of deception and I think secrets are poisonous.

Maybe that's what she means when she says I am a pleasure to work with.

INSIGHT:

My mother would have preferred me to be more discrete, and one of the ways I rebelled against her was by not hiding my "otherness" - rubbing her nose in it, in fact. And curiously, I was never actually punished for that.