By: Michaela
I was blown away as an adult when I fell into mixed groups of friends - where you have people of all genders chatting about the same stuff - from makeup to music to which guitar is better for live shows to whether IPAs are better than Pilsners, etc. And that was awesome.
Because like you, the only girls I'd ever really been exposed to in my early life still bought into the narrative that you had to like certain things or act a certain way to be a "girl". It's nice that when you grow up and find yourself exposed to different kinds of people and lifestyles that those prescriptive ideas kind of fall away and people can just be their truer selves more freely.
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By: Grayson
Beautiful! Really well said. I often feel the same struggle myself, but as a blogger as well, I have started to see the silver lining within my female relationships.
By: ThePartyParrotBlog
Thank you for sharing this Paula, when I have discovered your blog I think that at some point I left a comment saying that we must be twins or something; whenever I read what you write it is almost as if you read my mind. Glad to know you! Hugs xx
Naya
By: steff @ brighterdarling.com
This is beautiful! I've always been a girlie girl, but I can completely understand because although I've loved all things girlie and always valued female friendships (not only was in IN a sorority in college, but I then WORKED for it's Headquarters for 6 hrs afterwards LOL), I'm SUPER no BS and super NO DRAMA, and I'm not secretive about it lol. I'm basically a walking #nofilter. But I'm also so glad to find more girls like me in the blogging community. It's so supportive and I'm also so happy to be a part of it <3
By: Sadie
Loved reading this post, although I never had problems with other kids in school I only had a few close friends. I wasn't really one who went to the parties or anything. I've always been a pretty closed book and worrying about people judge me and it is through the support of lovely people like you on my blog when opening up about my struggles that have allowed me to open up in "real life" too. I've never experienced anything but support and kindness when it comes to the blogging community and it has restored my faith in the fact that people will support rather than judge me :) xx
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