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Mio figlio in rosa | Camilla Vivian | TEDxVicenza


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in my life I always had a few
certainties but one thing is always
I was sure and that is that there were
males and females who were
I am then grown and became
Mom and I had three children
The largest is a 13 year old female
small and a male to seven years and
the middle one as he says it is a little
both a male and a female is
9 years since my son fact
when he was little one has always shown
a predilection for everything
He belonged to women by
clothes to play the way you
play only identify with
all those who were the characters
female cartoon characters or even
videogames and so and I
honestly I have never found anything there
My daughter had always played badly
with lego fire allowed them
he wanted to play with Disney Princesses
there was absolutely no problem
until around 3 years
Mom started to ask but
When did I become a child
and there I realized that actually
could be something that was not
exactly the same as he
I focused my daughter started
ask me questions but I always
left free to be what he
He felt to be started
But inform me I never found
absolutely nothing that concern
the topic until one day driven
from friends who told me that
I had to support him wrong
begin to buy him toy cars
robot guns went from a
Child psychologist and I
informed to know from you if I did
I was good or bad this psychologist I
He said he has not totally me
We talked about gender identity and I
spoken only told me maybe your
son grow up to be homosexual
when I got home I said go
well peace for me was not a problem and
I continued to leave him free to
But be simultaneously I
I started talking to my friends
homosexuals asking them how it was like
had been their childhood to see if
if I found the topics that could
be shared with the life of my
son
and they told me that they had not
I never felt the need to be female
They had never wanted to dress up as
female or play with things like a girl
so they told me pushed me to
investigate further and I never was
anything until at some point I
I had the light as I speak
English very well put you to look
in English and at times when I
I started looking in English I made
realize that out of the Italian there was a
infinite world of children like mine and
of families like mine where children
He not recognized in their sex
biological
looking on the internet especially in
Anglo-Saxon countries were united
australia england I saw that
what could be defined
say the problem even if the problem
it was not about my son that was
there are many children who are born
biologically one sex but not
recognize in their biological sex
because actually there is sex
Biological sex is a psychic and I have
tell the truth when I discovered
this thing I have not felt
distressed I felt relieved
because finding a motivation
I also knew how to move a little as
how to act and often did the mistake until
a few years ago to go to my
son and ask him but you feel
male or female, and you feel him every
Once he looked very amazed me
I thought a moment and then told me I boh
I feel myself and I then and there this
answer does not understand and then onwards after
some time I realized that in reality
he was right there we have grown
in a binary thinking in which man is
a male or female, we tend to
categorize people since I
small and fit into a stereotype
the kind that must belong to strength
or male or female actually
a child is a virgin creature
all points of view and it is not
influenced from the outside is
just who he is and if we look at the
society around us this b narita
It is becoming increasingly
extreme in all in all what precisely
by kinder sheep that now are
Male Pointing at one time there were
less than one killer was eventually bic pen
It was one of bic pen even now there
male and female clothing from there
since small children are
seem super mini mini
Women these girls and boys of
supermen since little ones so the
Children who feel perfectly
represented by the stereotype gender
then than now begin at some
point to feel the influence of the world
outside that must perforce
steer to one side or from
and that other parents also tend
to make the mistake of sending them here oh oh
over there
also because indeed more
simple because when
It remains well in the middle and people do not
They know how to give you a label people
they fail
I remember last year I think with my
son had been a difficult period
to school there were children who
teased and then the teacher
He had gone a bit in crisis did not know
over how to handle the situation and we
They went together to the psychologist
a period that had made a
evaluation for my son to figure up
as he could if he could
feel the discomfort of his way of
be different from the normal and I say
I remember that after talking with
Psychologist psychologist told me
watch via your child that if you feel
discomfort if he knows how to handle the
situation is needed to talk with me
I’m here because available
When I got home that I told
and he looked at me and told me Mom
and I not have to go there and psychologist
I have no problem to get dressed
how I dress can be who I am are
others that we must go for
understand why they are struggling to
manage a child that there is a
pink t actually have to say
that this topic brings
question all the way
to see to see reality
if one can get past and understand
these children what they can
teach you
the fact is that children often do not
are
mentioned that actually do not
recognize in their biological sex and
They are forced to live in the
stereotype that society expects of
Their growing then arrive at some
point before puberty do not
can no longer play on the thing because
with puberty
at that point, or if you’re female or male
if these children were not accepted
year and they have not developed a character
strong enough
totally they are in crisis we have seen me
I I I always talk from mom
so do not do scientific terms, however,
the data we the only scientific data that
is essential for me to say is that these
When boys reach puberty
those who were not taken on the
family 41 percent attempts
suicide and often succeeds
I thought it was such a figure slightly
He was given instead to scare
Actually then comparing them with other
families
I got the answer that actually
It was so often these children
become anorexic because they know
if they do not eat it blocks the development and
then the body does not develop or
become bulimic because gaining weight
Breast say is hiding in
overweight a whole series of think you
things that are really so terrible
these kids go absolutely
welcomed since childhood all this
I spoke up and now has a name
the name dysphoria gender dysphoria
Gender is a pain endurance and
kind obviously the biological gender
Gender dysphoria is unfortunately still
inserted inside the manual
Diagnostic and Statistical of diseases
Psychiatric me when I honestly
have said this and I thought about my
son I took a hit too
because honestly my son a
nice intelligent child as
all other plays rascal like all
It has no characteristic of a
child who may have a disease
psychiatric
the problem is that it is actually the
company not accepting a certain ta
you point creates a whole series of
actually dysphoria Edimar
sopportazioni But not is not something
innate of these of these kids are
if it reaches a certain point, struggling,
accept their body, however many
Children struggle to teenagers
accept their body if they have around
had a welcoming of family
welcoming friends and school
welcoming they receive about the same as
all the others
my problem was that
discover all these things I had always
due to address abroad so
talk to the associations abroad
with families saw a conference the
ted conferences of the United States I
They always helped me a lot because
often they spoke of mothers
tell the stories to my identical
however, in Italy there was never
absolutely nothing and wondered if
anyone knew of children as
My children no one knew how to
the mine until at some point I
I decided to start a blog that is my
blog called my son in pink and
that just tells our story
that has not been written for
exhibitionism was written because
even in the opinion of the psychologist
to which I often I turn for advice
how to behave
I thought that if I was showing me
Normally telling my story
without any shame because
there is nothing to be ashamed indeed
It is probably of families
They were in the same situation
they contacted me exactly how
I had contacted the families
abroad and then at the end of August I
started this blog I talked with my
children I asked them what they
they thought they were in fact accordissimo
My son was so overjoyed because
said that no
that people would begin to
know how was her story and then
perhaps they would also be found of
other children who shared his
same passions actually just
released on blogs have gradually
began to contact to contact
families and now we’re a little from
all Italy
They have contacted from abroad
Italian families living in new
Zealand to New York in England who
They have the problem that they live a serene
but when they come in Italy have
grandparents, uncles and cousins who go
crisis because they do not understand what
this story and then slowly
talking to her because basically the
problem there is that there is
Information that must be discussed
You must not be ashamed there is nothing
in short, things problems
ashamed in life are other
these children are children like all
others perhaps should be given special attention
about more because they actually
They may have more trouble
integrate
But apart from that there is not
There is nothing wrong so I now
46 years ago thanks to my children I
realized that not only exists only masche
female, but there is an infinite variety
of possibilities and all go
absolutely accepted but above
I realized my son has ever taught
that no one should be judged, and so the thing
I always say to all of you
tell my story to tell
similar stories to my not not
keep things to themselves and not to
judge when we are faced with
an adult who does not represent the
Our idea of ​​person our
stereotypical male with our
female stereotype because that
Today was the adult child today
my son and therefore also needs
him of all the hospitality of the whole
understanding they need all
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