Maybe it’s not exactly lying. But I don’t tell her anything about my past because I don’t want her to judge me on how I was 5-13 years ago. I want to focus on what’s going on right now. So she doesn’t know much of my history and I have refused to have my records from my last clinic sent over.

I also lied and told her I was female instead of gender non binary because I felt like she wouldn’t have taken me seriously and just have told me I was confused. And that would just crush me because I know I’m not confused. So it was easier to lie.