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How do you feel about being non-binary?

Started by suzifrommd, May 31, 2015, 07:59:18 PM

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How do you feel about being non-binary?

I'm mostly OK with it
23 (67.6%)
I wish I could just be one or the other
8 (23.5%)
I'm not non-binary but I wanted to see the results
3 (8.8%)

Total Members Voted: 34

Gothic Dandy

I don't feel non-binary, I feel double-binary, like there is literally one man and one woman in this same body, and both want to live separate lives. I hate it. I can be something in between, but I can't be two opposing things at once.

Even as someone in between, there is no place for me in society. Sure, you can say all the happy, flowery things about being yourself and finding your place, but I mean. Rationally speaking. Where is my bathroom? I have to pick a gender to pee in public. When I go shopping, where is the men's department for female-proportioned bodies? When I'm in ritual with my Wiccan coven, do I speak the part of the Goddess or the God? When someone asks for "the guys" or "the ladies", do I go by my apparent gender or my biological gender?

Sometimes I like being me, but sometimes I wish I could just be one or the other. There have been times when I accepted that I might be a trans man, fully FTM, and then got envious at how pretty MTFs look years after transitioning. If I could just flip a switch and be a pretty woman sometimes, and a proud tough guy other times, that would be great.
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chance

I very much like being non-binary. I wish I could have figured to out sooner. Once in a while I run into someone that is uncomfortable with me being nonbinary but I understand that discomfort. All of my friends accept me complete for who I am. I'm working on helping my wife accept me for who I am. A little tricky since she is a lesbian and we met a few years before I figured out the nonbinary thing as much as I have. I'm still not sure completely because I am more connected to my "masculine" side. But in grateful that I can accept myself while I'm figuring it all out.


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April41

I have a love hate relationship with being non-binary. I may be non-binary, but I express myself in a very binary way. No one ever mistakes me as male when I choose to be male and no one  mistakes me as female when I choose to be female. However, there are some days I seem to make the "wrong" choice. Days when I put on a dress and all I can think about is "oh gosh, I just want to go home and tear it down" and vice versa.

However, I feel sort of stuck in the middle when I try to relate to one gender or the other. I don't quite feel right being around a group of guys and when I'm with a group of girls they sort of brush off my opinions and experiences as a woman because it's "different". So while internally I feel euphoric, socially I feel like a ping pong ball  that keeps getting shot off the table.
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