Jordan: I don’t know what that means, “different identities.”
Me: That’s a thing where kids decide that they are a different kind of person than they used to be, sometimes all of a sudden. Maybe a kid who used to be all about sports suddenly changes his mind so that now he really just wants to read all the time. Maybe someone who didn’t used to do their homework decides that now they want to be a total homework-doer. Maybe someone who had been wearing colorful clothes decides to wear all black. That was me by the way – when I was in middle school, or I forget what age actually, I wore all black all the time. My mother used to ask me if I was going to a funeral. But I really just liked black.
Jordan: Only black?
Me: I remember that really every single piece of clothing I wore was black, every day. I don’t know why. When I describe it it sounds kind of extreme. But it was just what I liked right then. I guess I was kind of a goth. Then later I changed to being a hippie and wore rainbow tie-dye and grew my hair long. So that was a change of identity. Another time I had very light blonde hair that was short and spiky.
Aaron: Do you have any pictures of that?
[I don’t have many pictures of myself as a teenager, except for things like the junior prom. But I did find this picture of myself camping with my parents.]
Both kids: That is YOU??
Me: How can you even need to ask that? I look exactly the same as I do now.
Them: No you do not.
Oh well.
Me: That’s a thing where kids decide that they are a different kind of person than they used to be, sometimes all of a sudden. Maybe a kid who used to be all about sports suddenly changes his mind so that now he really just wants to read all the time. Maybe someone who didn’t used to do their homework decides that now they want to be a total homework-doer. Maybe someone who had been wearing colorful clothes decides to wear all black. That was me by the way – when I was in middle school, or I forget what age actually, I wore all black all the time. My mother used to ask me if I was going to a funeral. But I really just liked black.
Jordan: Only black?
Me: I remember that really every single piece of clothing I wore was black, every day. I don’t know why. When I describe it it sounds kind of extreme. But it was just what I liked right then. I guess I was kind of a goth. Then later I changed to being a hippie and wore rainbow tie-dye and grew my hair long. So that was a change of identity. Another time I had very light blonde hair that was short and spiky.
Aaron: Do you have any pictures of that?
[I don’t have many pictures of myself as a teenager, except for things like the junior prom. But I did find this picture of myself camping with my parents.]
Both kids: That is YOU??
Me: How can you even need to ask that? I look exactly the same as I do now.
Them: No you do not.
Oh well.
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