Alejandra Inclán - NO era quien me dijeron SER

2016, Alejandra Inclán, Mexico, Spanish,

Original title: "NO era quien me dijeron SER" (I was NOT who they told me to BE) by Alejandra Inclán.

The gestation of a human life lasts nine months, but the gestation of who you really are can be a lifelong path. We grow up and are dictated by how we should be. They mold us and lead to a valid personification for others. And we believe it. Many embrace that and accept it because it fits their feelings. For Valeria, it wasn't like that.

In her adult life, she finished understanding that she was not who she was told to be. That she had to find a way to manifest herself to family, friends, and work. Obtaining that concordance that nature denied her. On that path, she believed in the possibility of love, of a couple. But I wasn't ready. They weren't ready. A barrier appeared when her secret was revealed and she felt that she lived a frustrated sexuality, for not knowing how to face that disparity that sooner or later she had to confess.

Valeria writes and recounts with nostalgia her search for a normal life. Exiled from the environment that once sheltered her, she achieves apparent job stability, new friends, and reunion with friends she is disappointed. And although it seems that she reached the end of a transition, she is still searching and this leads her to take risks, hoping to find a new beginning and an opportunity to deliver the notes of her life, to those who at one point in their existence determine that they were not who they were told to be. It was not who I was told to be, it was born as disjointed stories, but over the years I saw that several of my writings could be classified by themes: stories from rural areas, based on news, adoption, and transsexuality.

The latter had the particularity of having the same character and telling different stages of his life. When I realized this, I gathered these stories and gave them an order that was intended to be chronological, which was diluted into stages that intersected each other. The order I propose leads hand in hand to know Valeria from within. Each chapter is like an independent story, so you can also start with the one you want, regardless of the prologue, the introduction, and the epilogue. I just know that you will not be indifferent to this reading, and that the order of speech you want to take will lead you to connections to see something more than a transsexual person. See the human being that she is. She wasn't who I was told to be, she had this nature by herself. Why, I don't know, that's how I gave birth to her, that's how God dictated it to me. I hope you give yourself the opportunity and get to the end.

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