Quote from: Joanna Dark on April 27, 2013, 02:06:54 AM
Thanks. I'll never be able to afford FFS though so yeah. I'm a poor kid from one of the worst neighborhoods in the USA. It's literally called the Badlands. I just started regular dose sprio too and before that it was so low that it prob had no effect. But I'll have to make a decision whether or not to continue HRT given that FFS is something I can't do and the fact that I won't be able to ever pass without it. IDK.
Listen to Auntie Shan!
For nine weeks on low dose spiro, you're looking great.
Do you pass now? I don't know, it's always hard to tell from photo's as I'd say 70% of being read as female is about body language.
In the photo you posted I get a very feminine vibe, and with that short a haircut, that's quite something.
I think there's every reason to assume that given time, you absolutely will pass. and easily at that.
As to your life prospects (getting out of the hood so to speak) there will be opportunities. Learning to spot them is what differentiates successful people from those who tend to remain at the level they stared at, but bear this in mind, trying to make success for yourself when you aren't truly you is incredibly hard. The more in tune you are with yourself, the more likely you are to be able to spot an open door where once there was a brick wall. I've squandered a ton of opportunities over the years because depression just took the wind out of my sails again and again.
I'm doing pretty well, but I feel like I'm a decade behind where I should be given all the good fortune I have had over the years.
Since I started transition, I've been a lot more focused on taking advantage of everything that comes my way. There is no doubt I've lost some of the things that just make life easier for men in this world, but hey, I wasn't taking advantage of them anyway.
I'm not trying to blame people for their situations in life by saying that they "are too lazy too succeed" or something like that. It's insanely hard to get out of an environment of poverty and maybe you just won't be lucky enough to get that opportunity, but I do know that if you give up even looking for a way out, you'll miss whatever options you might have had.
