I have Asperger's Syndrome and in the past I found I use to be very careless with choice of words. But I purposely put myself under the bus many times when to set my self up for failure to learn proper ways of speaking. I failed every time it was so hard to improve my communications, but as I matured I was much better and comfortable with speaking with people. To be honest it really didn't get as good as it is now without going through HRT in my life because it opened up the door to sensitivities I lacked beforehand. I don't mind sharing some photos of who I use to be because it's the past that will never be forgotten nor would it be something I'd allow myself to be held to something I was not.
It's a bit lengthy, but there's a reason why I added a time line to my logic.
September 24, 2010
November 22, 2010
In both photos I was 19 years of age. The second part I was preparing for my final year to begin service as most of the males not destined for higher education it would seem in my family. I had some serious Gender Dysphoria going on though and I didn't like it.
July 16, 2012.
I pretty much got out due to default and started to grow my hair out. I guess the stress in my life made me get some white hair at this point in my time. And I just turned 21 in May.
May 6, 2013.
I guess this was about the time when I wanted to start transitioning. And to be honest I had just given up reasoning with my family at this time. I had only started growing facial period a bit later in my months after turning 21, but started to become a bit more visible after turning 22.
February 26, 2014.
YYYUUUUCCCCKKKK FACIAL HAIR!!! >.<; That took me about 4-6 months to grow to that length though so I guess it was a compromise?!
January 6, 2015.
When I was down... Sam always found a way to cheer me up. He inspired me when I was down to make something better out of what became terrible, but my financial toll on my life all together. So it was moments with Sam that made my time the best. I stopped my transitioning at this point because I had to pull a second job along with my retail position. I managed to pull a different temporary position at a plantsite + dropped out of college. My roommates lost their job and ways to support the household with income. And I picked up an alcoholism issue to drown my sorrows away until I could stand up on my two feet proudly. Sam went back to school so I didn't have him in my life to hang out with for emotional support and I eventually stopped seeing my therapist all together.
At some point my mother moved and I took some time off from both workplaces to help her move. And I reached a bit of an epiphany at this time taking Sam's advice for once.
May 19, 2015.
I guess this would make me 24 now hehee! ^^ I started turning my life around at this point and gone straight to my goals I wanted to work for myself! I went back to school and managed to get an internship at DuPont!
December 4, 2015.
Managed to keep this awesome retail job and turned it into a career! And managed to become an Assistant Technician at one of my most favorable plant sites I worked in the past. I Managed to get back into therapy as well. I had been in for awhile though wasn't like less than 2.5 months. But it wasn't hard for me to prove who I was and to show how I was making an educated adjustment to my life to my therapist. Especially since this was the same one I had gone to before. After all the demons I fought to get to this point. This would be one month before starting HRT.
March 24, 2016. I guess.. about two months in.
I didn't want to shave my face because I wanted to compare it something and so 4 days would pass to see how smooth my face was after a month. ^^
March 28, 2016.
I'll admit I did have a soft face for the majority of my life, but I dunno it's hard to put in for words if you ask me.
May 16, 2016.
8 days before I turned 25. I guess my skin became a bit 'softer' in the 4 months of HRT and it would seem my eyebrows changed a bit?!
June 13, 2016.
Yeah... One word.... 'Clarity' if anything! ^^
And I guess that brings my current image, which I just put up about 17 hours ago or so. Which is very close to my 6 month mark! ^^
In comparison to whether someone is passable is a bit tricky to answer. Because many people will have different examples, ideas, or concepts on whether your passable or not. And we're about to get to my 'personal' reasoning upon whether someone is passable or not so I guess I should explain my timeline to get to my point. Take your first image and compare it to your current one. How passable are you? Well that's up to you on how much you've changed in time. It's up to you to really decide whether your passable or not, but personally I'd like to see some of your older images so I can help you understand my Asperger's Ideology + Logical Pathways here.
An interesting note I'd wish to disclose... I guess since I didn't really start growing facial hair until 20 most of it was still pretty young and at 6 months HRT. most of it became 'finer' for me, but that doesn't mean all of my facial hair did.
(A thousand hugggzzz right back at ya sista!) ^^
