Summary of Alexandra Billings's This Time for Me

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 I am not a liar, but I have a hard time admitting and living in the truth. I prefer the world I create to the world I inhabit. If I don’t like the way the story’s going, I simply change it.

#2 I knew my life was half planned and mostly dreamed, because my mother spent an extraordinary amount of time making things pretty. I was always aware of how I differed from my mother and grandmother, who were both perfectionists.

#3 I learned to do whatever I had to do to remain afloat as the family outcast. I was ten years old when I was told directly by the person I loved the most that what I was doing was not to be seen.

#4 I had to make a choice: I could either keep going or stop. I decided to keep going, and I began to lie.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 12, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669384113

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Insights on Alexandra Billings's This Time for Me

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 26

Insights from Chapter 27

Insights from Chapter 28

Insights from Chapter 29

Insights from Chapter 30

Insights from Chapter 31

Insights from Chapter 32

Insights from Chapter 33

Insights from Chapter 34

Insights from Chapter 35

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I am not a liar, but I have a hard time admitting and living in the truth. I prefer the world I create to the world I inhabit. If I don’t like the way the story’s going, I simply change it.

#2

I knew my life was half planned and mostly dreamed, because my mother spent an extraordinary amount of time making things pretty. I was always aware of how I differed from my mother and grandmother, who were both perfectionists.

#3

I learned to do whatever I had to do to remain afloat as the family outcast. I was ten years old when I was told directly by the person I loved the most that what I was doing was not to be seen.

#4

I had to make a choice: I could either keep going or stop. I decided to keep going, and I began to lie.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Being Transgender requires careful planning, devious escapes, and fabulous costumes. In the 1960s, being me was illegal, both on the streets and in my living room.

#2

I had a toy poodle that my father had brought back from Vietnam. I loved playing with it, but my father hated it when I played with it in the hallway because he thought it was a faggot thing to do. He eventually grinded it up and ate it.

Insights from Chapter 3

#1

I was afraid of being gay, and I tried to fix that by not being gay. But I couldn’t, and that made some people run away, and others want to pummel me.

#2

I was seven when I was picked to be it in the neighbor’s pool. I was swimming around, screaming Marco! when I was tagged by one of the other boys. I was humiliated and furious, and I laughed along with them.

Insights from Chapter 4

#1

I live in a place where anything is possible. I can play with my