"You sound like an evil witch."

My friends and everyone else always loved my laugh. They would tell me that it was unique and that it made them want to laugh, too. 

I remember sitting in the classroom with my friends, doing our work. We had a substitute teacher that day, so it was just fun stuff.

At one point I was laughing so hard that my friends were laughing with me. Then the substitute teacher interrupted and said, "That's your real laugh? You sound like an evil witch. Don't laugh."

The rest of the day I was completely quiet. She was the first person to hate my laugh.

"I still think of you as my son."

I was once riding in the car with my dad, and we were talking. Nothing in depth or serious. I don't even remember what he said that caused him to apologize (I wish I could).

But he said to me, "I'm sorry, its just I guess sometimes I still think of you as my son."

I started to wonder how long he's seen me like that. If he has ever treated me a certain way because he'd seen me as a boy. 

I wonder if anything in my life might have been different if he had seen me as me.