"In the class of Mental Disease there was, naturally, more
detailed and systematic reference to facts in the sexual life and
to sexual inversion as a rare pathological condition. But still
there was not a comforting word to reassure me, growing ever more
hopelessly ashamed of what it seemed was a criminal or a gravely
morbid nature.
"Among all my fellow-students I knew of no one constituted like
myself; but my natural reserve--increased, of course, by my
consciousness of what I saw would be thought to be a criminal
tendency--did not urge me to exchange of confidences or to the
formation of; close friendships.
"After graduation I became a resident medical officer in the
hospital and private assistant to one of the professors--a
physician and teacher of worldwide reputation. With him I
associated on the most cordial and affectionate terms; and often
in the course of conversation I tried to bring him to discuss the
subject, but without success. It was obviously unpleasant and
uninteresting to him. Enough was said, however, to enable me to
realize that he held the current ideas on the subject; and I
would not for worlds have allowed him, to guess that I myself
came under the despised and tainted category.
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