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( summarizes my pre-nineteen life and my physical and mental traits for those not reading my . Particularly for details of purely medical interest, the scientist is referred to that work, since the present volume is designed primarily for the general reader., however, presents many facts not in mind when I wrote the earlier work over twenty years ago.)



I. Reveries Suggested by My Infancy.

Connecticut, famous for its wooden nutmegs and other freak products, gave to the world, in 1874, one of its half-dozen most widely known girl-boys.

My mother has said that I was the greatest cry-baby of her eleven children. I have really never out-grown this characteristic. Still in my late forties, I occasionally weep bitterly for a whole hour.

Up to my eighth birthday, timidity made me reluctant to leave my mother's side to play with other children. Sticking very close to "mother" as a child, and extraordinary devotion to her when adult are common earmarks of androgynism. I have known of no other reputed male so devoted to his mother, even down to his late forties, as I. My mother is still, by [53]