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"It came as a shock to me the amount of things people don’t realize about someone else’s lifestyle. My mom assumed that since I’m now a man I don’t care what I look like as long as I look like a man. She’s wrong. She thought because I’m a man I’d want to go out and ride dirt bikes instead of decorate cakes. She’s wrong." This reminded me of shortly after coming out to my mum, she lamented that now she had no one to whom to pass down her things, because men wouldn't want those things. I guess it never occurred to her that most any child will treasure nearly anything a parent leaves to them simply because it was something that belonged to their parent - male or female quite often doesn't matter. Of course I don't want her favourite big floppy Red Hat Society hat, or her entire collection of stuffed bears...but a figurine that she treasured, or some special dish, maybe one tiny bear... why wouldn't a guy wanna keep something like that just to say, "this was my momma's?" I didn't say anything. I just left it at that. I think way too many people are under the mistaken impression that most men do not hold dear the belongings of loved ones.