Growing up as a Boy

When I was a kid, I didn't have much hair. So I grew up with very short hair, dark skin, and skinny body. My mom told me that the elementary school's principle thought that I was a boy after she looked at me and misheard my name as "Iwan" (instead of my childhood name of "Yowan"). So she was really surprised when she saw me in skirt.

I didn't grow up with dolls, princesses, or barbie. In fact, the favorite toy in my house when I was growing up is Lego, in which my siblings and I would turned into guns and buildings to play "Rambo". In addition to trees and gates, I liked to climb on roof and just pretended that I was trying to conquere the Mount Everest. I don't like the girly stuff and I am not into frilly dresses. When I was in middle school, I was stopped by the rest room lady at the airport because she thought that I was a boy trying to enter a women's rest room.

I guess I am a bit tomboyish or maybe just a late bloomer...