I'm starting not to recognize myself in the mirror

[tvc15]

Lately, the image I see when I look in the mirror isn't always the one I was expecting. It's a really cool feeling. Seems like I'm having noticeable changes every day. I never really hear people talk about this, so I'm just wondering; is this a common experience, or do most people only notice the differences by going back and comparing pictures? If others have gone through this before, how does it make you feel? I really dig it. It's good to be shocked by my own progress.

[a.n.pesch]

No, I think this is totally common; at least, I have feelings very similar, too.

I started to notice it as soon as I accepted, mentally, that I am indeed a man at heart. I've started carrying myself with this mentality, and I see it every time I look in the mirror. And that's without any physical change, ha.

[Joeyboo~ :3]

Same here.
I never see a difference in pictures, though.
I can only see it in the mirror, so I think it just might be in my head.

It is a nice feeling 

[Annah]

wait until you walk across or past a mirror at work or at school and then, for a brief few seconds, you think its some girl behind you.

Now, that's freaky!

[Wesley_33]

Do we get some pics 

[Hadrian]

No, I think this is totally common; at least, I have feelings very similar, too.

I started to notice it as soon as I accepted, mentally, that I am indeed a man at heart. I've started carrying myself with this mentality, and I see it every time I look in the mirror. And that's without any physical change, ha.

Same here. Especially since I've cut my hair really short!

[Natkat]

my and my mtf friend use to say there is a "mirrow period" hven you start T and look in the mirrow all the time for chancings to come or who have come,

[Nygeel]

For me it's pretty much been the same as always. Sometimes I'll notice a break out or some fuzz but that's it.

[JenJen2011]

I'll probably notice that after ffs.

[N.Chaos]

I tend to avoid mirrors as much as possible, unless I'm fighting with my hair or putting on makeup. I even shave and brush my teeth in the shower most of the time, but I definitely see it in pictures. Its amazing, though. I found one of my old photobucket accounts a few months ago and was just amazed. I'm not on HRT or anything, but its like as soon as I stopped trying to hard to be girly, I looked a hell of a lot more natural. And comfortable, for that matter. It used to be like looking at a stranger for me, with a lot of my pictures. I can't say how glad I am to be rid of that feeling.