Umm. It's not going so hot?
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First conversation with someone I just met on a writing website:
they asked my age and gender,
I told them, they were kind of confused. Which I completely understand, it took me a long time to figure it out too.
So I tried to explain.
But then they told me gender and sex were the same thing, at which point I just said "ok bye" and left the chat.
And then they were upset that I left!?
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On one hand, I feel like life is to short to argue with strangers about my gender identity (especially since I spent so long arguing with myself about it, lol)
But on the other hand maybe this person was just uneducated on gender stuff, and I should have cut them some slack. :-/
I don't know. I feel frustrated but also feel I might have been too flippant, I guess.
Does anyone have any advice for dealing with this kind of thing? Or maybe there are some other NBs here with some "first time out" stories so I don't feel so alone?