Every official document that I own — passport, birth certificate, and driver’s permit — testifies that I am a US Citizen even though I only lived in the US for the first three months of my life.
The worst part of being a TCK is feeling isolated among my peers, feeling like I should belong but somehow don’t.
I’ve never quite understood Americans and they’ve never understood me.
What is hard for me now is that Ecuador can’t be my forever home and I have to figure out how to live in America. To me that’s the hardest part about being a TCK – so many goodbyes.