How To Cry

A guide for robots

Photo by Andy Kelly on Unsplash

My childhood was spent in a small southern town, being both queer and atheist. These things did not work in my favor. In fact, I learned early on that to be different was to be wrong, and that rejection from my peers was the inevitable result.

I struggled to fit in, but I also struggled with the idea of fitting in. Try as I might, I just couldn’t bring myself to lie about who I was and…