All I Wanted Was to Be the Popular Girl. My Teen Doesnt Care About That.

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  • For the first nine years of her life, Tess was rarely free after school or on a weekend.
  • She confidently bounced from park playdates to birthday parties and wasn’t anxious around new kids.
  • Then, one morning in April 2020, Tess just woke up different.
  • “I hated my life and everything about myself.
  • My face.
  • My legs, especially my legs,” she recalls now as we lie on her bed.
  • She agreed to be interviewed for this essay after I asked for her permission to write it.
When I was 12, I tracked every sixthgrade girls birthday in my spiral notebook. Caroline was born in May; Lisa in November; Allison was August. A month before each girls special day, I would start l [+14780 chars]

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