as for his believing he was a girl , and crying miserably when he saw his reflection in a mirror , his mother could not endure this and actually ran from the room after about a week of hysterical and melancholic behavior , stuart-antoinette was persuaded to stop asking for dresses , to accept the fact that she had a boy 's body now , and to believe that she was stuart townsend , and get back to doing what stuart was expected to do .