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Mio figlio in rosa | Camilla Vivian | TEDxVicenza


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I’ve always had a few in my life

however, certainties of a thing are always

been sure and that there were i

males and that there were females

then I grew up and became

mom and I had three children

the big one is a 13 year old female

small and a male at seven years e

the middle one, as he says, is a bit

both a male and a female is

at 9 years my son in fact since

when he was little he always showed

a predilection for all that

belonged to the female world from

clothes to games in their own way

to play only with oneself

all those who were the characters

female cartoon or even

of videogames and it’s like that and me

honestly I’ve never found anything there

My daughter had always played badly

with the lego of firemen it is allowed them

he wanted to play with Disney princesses

there was absolutely no problem

as long as around 3 years has

started asking you mom but

when can I become a child?

and there I understood that indeed

there could be something that was not

exactly the same as he had

concerned my daughter I started to

ask me questions even if I always have questions

left free to be what he is

it felt like I was started

inform me, however, I never found

absolutely nothing that concerned

the argument until one day pushed

from friends who told me that

I was wrong to support him that I had to

start buying the toy cars

robots the guns went by one

psychologist of childhood and I am

informed to know from her if I did

good or I hurt this psychologist me

He said he did not absolutely have me

talked about gender identity and has me

just spoken he told me maybe yours

big son will be homosexual for

which I came home I said goes

good peace for me it was not a problem e

I kept leaving it free of

however, at the same time I am myself

put to talk with my friends

homosexuals asking them how it was like

it had been their childhood if to see

if I found any arguments they could

be shared with my life

son

and they told me that they did not have

never felt the need to be a female

they had never wanted to dress up

female or play with female things

so they told me they were pushing me to

investigate further and I never found

nothing until at a certain point I am

had the lighting as I speak

very good English to look for you

in English and at times when I am

I started looking in English I made myself

I count that there was a outside of Italy

infinite world of children like mine and

of families like mine where children

he did not recognize himself in their sex

biological

looking on the internet especially in the

Anglo-Saxon countries united states

england australia i saw that the

what could be defined

let’s say the problem even if problematic

it was not about my son it was that

there are many children born

biologically of a sex but not yes

they recognize in their biological sex

because reality there is a sex

Biological is a psychic sex and I have to

tell the truth when I found out

I did not hear this thing

anguished I felt relieved

because finding a motivation

I also knew a bit how to move like

how to act and I often made the mistake up

a few years ago to go to mine

son and ask him but you feel

males or you feel female and he is every

Once he looked at me very amazed

I thought a moment and then he told me boh me

I feel myself and I there for this

answer does not understand and then onwards after

some time I realized that actually

he was right we grew up

in a binary thought in which man is

a male or female that we tend to

catalog people as long as they are

small and fit into a stereotype

gender that must belong by force

or masculine or feminine in reality

a child is a virgin creature from

all points of view and if it is not

influenced by the exterior is

simply who he is and if we look at it

society that surrounds us this barita

it is becoming more and more

extreme in all in all that precisely

from the kinder sheep that now they are from

male at the same time there were

less killer was a fine bic pen

it was one now even as a bic pen there

from male and there is a female clothes

since the very young children are from

super look like mini mini

women these little girls and male gods

superuomini since small children for which gods

children who do not feel perfectly

represented by the gender stereotype

then than now begin at some

point to feel the influence of the world

external that he must necessarily

address from one side or from

that other one and also the parents tend

make the mistake of sending them oh here oh

over there

also because actually more

simple because in the moment

it remains so in the middle and people do not

they know how to give people a label

they are in crisis

I remember last year I think with mine

son had been a difficult time

at school there were children who did it

they teased and then the teacher

he had gone a bit in crisis he did not know

more how to handle the situation and we are

went together by the psychologist who for

a period that he had made one

evaluation to my son to understand up

when he could if he could

feel the discomfort of this way of his

be different let’s say from the normal and me

I remember that after talking with the

psychologist, the psychologist told me

watch your son away if he feels a

uncomfortable that if you know how to handle the

situation both need to talk to me

I am here available because

when I went home I said it

and he looked at me and told me mum

and I do not have to go there and the psychologist

I have no problem getting dressed

how I dress can be who I am

the others who have to go there for

understand why they struggle to

manage a child that is one

pink t-shirt actually I have to say

that this topic puts into

discussing our whole way of

see seeing reality

if one manages to go further and understand

these children what they can do

teach you

the fact is that often children who do not

are

mentioned that you actually do not

recognize in their biological sex and

they are forced in to live in the

stereotype that society expects from

growing them then arrive at a certain

point before puberty that not

they can play more on the thing because

with puberty

at that point either if you’re a boy or you’re a girl

if these children were not accepted

and year have not developed a character

strong enough

totally they are in crisis we have seen me

I have it I’m always talking to mom

so I do not give scientific terms though

the data there is the only scientific data that

for me it is essential to say is that these

kids when they arrive at puberty

those who have not been accepted by the

41 percent family tries the

suicide and often succeeds

I thought it was a bit like that

it was given to scare instead in

reality then comparing with others

families

I had the answer that actually

it was so these children often

they become anorexic because they know that

if they do not eat it stops the development and

then the body does not develop or

they become bulimic because they gain weight

the breast is hidden, let’s say in the

overweight a whole series of creeds

things that are really terrible for which

these children absolutely go

welcomed as a child all this of

I’ve talked about so far has a name e

the name dysphoria of gender the dysphoria

gender is a bad tolerance and the

genus of course the biological genus la

gender dysphoria is unfortunately still

inserted in the manual

diagnostic and statistical disease

psychiatric to me honestly when I am

they said this and I thought of mine

son took a shot too

because honestly my son a

cute clever baby like

all the others play like everyone else

it has no characteristic of a

child who may have a disease

psychiatric

in reality the problem is that it is the

company that does not accept a certain ta

point creates you a whole series of

actually of dysphaoria edimar

but it is not a thing

innate of these of these kids yes

if it comes a certain point that struggling to

accept their body however how many

teenage children struggle to

accept their body if they have around

had a welcoming family of

welcoming friends and school

welcoming they get there more or less like

all the others

my problem had been that for

discover all these things I always was

due to go abroad for which

talk with associations abroad

with families saw a conference the

US ted conferences me

they always helped a lot because

they often talked about mothers who

tell the stories identical to mine

however, it is never in Italy

absolutely nothing and I asked if

someone knew of children like the

My nobody knew about children like

mine until at some point I have

decided to open a blog that is mine

blog called my son in pink e

which tells our story

that was not written for

exhibitionism was written because

also under the opinion of the psychologist

which I often turn to for advice

on how to behave

I thought that if I exposed myself

telling my story normally

without any kind of shame because

there is nothing to be ashamed of

it’s probably families that

they were in my same situation

they would contact me exactly like

I had contacted the families

abroad and then at the end of August I have

open this blog I talked to my parents

children I asked them what it was

they thought they were in agreement indeed

my son was overjoyed because so

He said he did not

that people would have started to

know how his story was and therefore

perhaps they would also have found themselves

other children who shared his

same passions actually just

released the blog slowly have

started contacting me to contact me

of families and now we are a little bit

all Italy

they also contacted me from abroad

Italian families living in new

zealand in new york in england that

they have the problem that they live there serene

but when they come to Italy they have i

grandparents uncles and cousins ​​who go in

crisis because they do not understand what it is

this story and then slowly

talking about it because basically the

problem that is there is that there is not

information for which we must talk about it

there is nothing to be ashamed of

of problems, in short, the things of

shame in life are others

these children are children like everyone

others may be given an eye to him

more about it because actually

they may have more difficulty a

integrate

but apart from that there is no non

there’s nothing wrong with me today

he is 46 years old thanks to my children i have

understood that there is not only masche alone

female but there is an infinite variety

of possibilities and they all go

absolutely accepted but above all

I understood my son has never taught

that no one should be judged and so the thing

that I always tell everyone is of

tell my story to tell

stories similar to mine of not not

keep things for themselves and not

judge when we are faced with

an adult who does not represent the

our idea of ​​our person

stereotype of a male with ours

female stereotype because that

Today’s adult was the child who today a

my son and so he needs too

he of all the hospitality of the whole

understanding they all need

How many

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