how to train your dragon (2010) is about growing up gay/trans because being ostracized by your peers for being “different”, feeling misunderstood, ignored and even ridiculed by anyone you try to discuss your feelings with, wanting to be “normal” but struggling to conform because you know that a fundamental element of everyone else’s lifestyle won’t make you happy (dragonslaying = an allegory for cisheteronormativity), poor relationship with parent(s), self-deprecating humor as a defence mechanism, pretending to be something you’re not to protect your secret, relating more to other misfits and outcasts than most other people because you have that in common, and being so lonely that you get rapidly and excessively attached to the first person to offer you unconditional love and support are all typical of the LGBT Experience™ send tweet