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Six months FTE!

Started by Ms Grace, September 24, 2014, 04:56:50 PM

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Ms Grace

Yesterday marked six months of me living full time as Grace. So far it has been a pretty good run but I have to admit to still expecting the wheels to fall off the cart and still wondering if people I meet or just random strangers in public have read me or not. Most evidence would suggest "no" but it's certainly something that rides in my mind most of the time. I'm not paranoid about it and it isn't causing me stress but I do wonder if it will ever go away.

Other than that everything is going really well, I haven't had any obvious discrimination from being trans (maybe I'm not trying hard enough!) and, other than some family members, have been accepted as Grace by all. Most of my stress at the moment comes from work, but that's because of my workload not because of being trans.
Grace
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Transition 1.0 (Julie): HRT 1989-91
Self-denial: 1991-2013
Transition 2.0 (Grace): HRT June 24 2013
Full-time: March 24, 2014 :D
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Jessica Merriman

Quote from: Ms Grace on September 24, 2014, 04:56:50 PM
I have to admit to still expecting the wheels to fall off the cart
I had the very same thoughts at 6 months or so!  ;D It has been smooth sailing though. Enjoy it Sis and don't worry about a thing!  :)
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suzifrommd

Congrats Grace.

I still wonder if people clock me, but it's starting to matter less. I'm comfortable enough with who I am that I'm willing to have people know my history. Passable or not, I haven't had the slightest trouble except with people who knew me before I transitioned.

Enjoy the ride!
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ssneha23

Congrats Grace!! A biiiggggg hug from me..
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FrancisAnn

Grace, good for you & you look great. I've followed your posts & you are always pleasant & thank you for your time to review & help out on a lot of new posts. Also thanks for posting about your sister & I hope things improve with her as life goes on for both of you.
mtF, mid 50's, always a girl since childhood, HRT (Spiro, E & Fin.) since 8-13. Hormone levels are t at 12 & estrogen at 186. Face lift & eye lid surgery in 2014. Abdominoplasty/tummy tuck & some facial surgery May, 2015. Life is good for me. Love long nails & handsome men! Hopeful for my GRS & a nice normal depth vagina maybe by late summer. 5' 8", 180 pounds, 14 dress size, size 9.5 shoes. I'm kind of an elegant woman & like everything pink, nice & neet. Love my nails & classic Revlon Red. Moving back to Florida, so excited but so much work moving
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Delsorou

Since February 18th for me, we're pretty close.  :)  Glad things are working out so well!  Sounds a lot like the experience I have had so far.  Actually, a strange demented part of me kind of wants someone to be discriminating so that I can sue the pants off of them to pay for surgery...  it's a small part, but it's still there.  It has thus far been disappointed.
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sam79

6 months is a great milestone Grace, congratulations :).

I'm getting nicely close to a year, and that 'waiting for the wheels to fall off' feeling is kind of still there, but getting so much less important now.

In my case, two months ago someone attempted to pull the wheels off for me. While on a train, a fruit loop ( clearly troubled person ) made me and start shouting "He's a boy, he's a boy".... That hurt pretty bad. Partly because I became complacent ( due to the great success before that point ), and because I had started rejecting everything trans. So when it was called out publicly, I didn't cope well.

But you know, you live and learn. It was a terrible thing to go through, but such an important lesson.
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Ali

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kelly_aus

6 months, Grace? Where has the time gone? 4 years in and I still have the odd moment where I wonder the same thing though.

Guess I must be doing OK though, yesterday my therapist and I agreed that I have no real need for a therapist of any kind any more..
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Jenny07

Well done Grace. How time flies.

So long and thanks for all the fish
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rosinstraya

It'll be a year before you know it!  :)

Congrats as well from the depths of the inner westeries.
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BreezyB

Congrats Grace, so happy things have been smooth. Don't expect the wheels to fall off, its great when life is workng out for us  :)
"I don't care if the world knows what my secrets are" - Mary Lambert



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Bols

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JLT1

To move forward is to leave behind that which has become dear. It is a call into the wild, into becoming someone currently unknown to us. For most, it is a call too frightening and too challenging to heed. For some, it is a call to be more than we were capable of being, both now and in the future.
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Ms Grace

Thanks everyone! Strangely, yesterday was one of those days where I felt very unpassable, don't know why. Admittedly I was wearing jeans and a tee - so fairly andro. I copped a few weird looks (mainly from women)... who knows why, I've no idea. Led me to wonder if most people didn't react because they just thought I was a dude anyway or if so many people are so distracted by their iPhones and other gadgets that most of them wouldn't notice a panda in a tutu.  :-\

Weird day.
Grace
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Transition 1.0 (Julie): HRT 1989-91
Self-denial: 1991-2013
Transition 2.0 (Grace): HRT June 24 2013
Full-time: March 24, 2014 :D
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Jill F

Wow, Grace!  Has it been 6 months already?  Time does fly, doesn't it?  I stumbled into full-time on 3/22/13 and never looked back.  It's been the best 18 months of my entire life.  I hope you are thoroughly enjoying having finally shed "dude" once and for all.   For me, it was like an incredible burden had finally been lifted and being able to breathe freely for the first time. 
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Bols

Maybe those players were fiddling with their new iPhone 6es and checking if any pandas were noticing them? :P
Evelyn aka Bols
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