It's very good to have your input Aimee. I wonder if you have ever had any counselling around these issues and at what times in your life did they coincide with growth and what issues they covered and when. Did your parent's have any counselling before surgery to help them with these issues or their decisions? I can understand for some children during childhood that they "see" these disadvantages being around other children and siblings, but it is possible for children to be counselled in ways to keep themselves "safe." There are ways to move around issues such as you have mentioned, so I naturally wonder if you had counselling around what was happening for you at those times. Many women in your position now feel in hindsite that it would make a world of difference to these children to have extensive couselling rather than going through surgeries at an early age and then the complications when they are older such when older due to diminished sensatory loss, or having their lives affected that way because they had 'too' much scar tissue due to too many surgeries or unnecessary surgeries. By this I mean surgeries that may not have been needed to reduce slightly enlarged clitoris in babies or this kind of thing. As an adulolescent we can review the situation and decide which procedures are necessary and what can be left.