Yes, I was. The only girls in my neighborhood as a kid were either much older or much younger than me. If I wanted to play with the boys, I had to play what they wanted to play. Basketball, football, baseball just for fun, never on teams, “guns,” that sort of thing. I actually loved it, and wasn’t really interested in dolls or other girlie things. I refused to wear dresses and hated that my mom made me keep my hair really long. I liked to climb trees, and wanted a boys’ bike instead of a girls’ bike.
Eventually, like around middle school age, I started to pay a little more attention to being feminine. It wasn’t until my junior year of high school that I really got the hang of clothes, hair, and makeup. I still liked fishing, biking, swimming in our pond, hiking in the woods and climbing trees, more than going to those awkward school dances. I was happier dissecting things in zoology class than painting my fingernails or toenails (which I am still not good at, by the way).
I still prefer jeans and comfortable shoes to anything else, am not the least bit squeamish about bugs or reptiles or rodents just spiders and am all to apt to get even dirtier than the kids when we play outside. When we go out to dinner though, I clean up nicely. :)