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Started by mickiejr1815, December 24, 2007, 09:19:12 AM

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mickiejr1815

ok, so i have been on here for awhile now. i have decided that i want to transition and have slowly been dressing ever more feminine at work. nobody says anything ( coworkers anyway as we are suppose to respect everyone no matter what). if customers want something, they usually call me ma'am or miss and of course i am not offended, those of us that are mtf enjoy that. most of the customers even here how deep my voice is and still assume i am female and lately i have seen and heard why. one day i was at my sister's work and a decent looking black girl had come in and she asked her for her change. and i was like damn it's no wonder people think that i am a girl without even having to do anything. i don't wear makeup at all, none whatsoever. for some reason it doesn't seem like i have to, so i haven't really learned to do it yet. one day i had wrote up a lady for service and heard how deep my voice was and still turned around and said ma'am etc. etc. and i was like ok that's different for a change.

but the real issue is our families. i'm really tired of hiding from everyone, i mean her sister kinda knows and understands and i think her fiancee has kind of some notion and neither have shunned me and they both love our kids. my dad only cares that we are happy and i suspect he knows. but i can't really tell my mother she's deaf and pretty much blind, and has always mistreated me or found some way to embarass me. when i was little she always told me the reason i wasn't born a girl, is because my father's mother got down on her knees and prayed to god that her son would give her a grandson, my mother always has hated that fact and then it got worse when i became two and my mother got the little girl she had really been wanting. my grandma would take me back into her and spoil me with all kinds of toys, and if you haven't got the picture by now, my mom and her mom-in-law never got along. my grandma died when i was about 7. she'd probably disown me now if she was alive. now i have no living grandparents and my wife's family has become my own. this year i have had to disown both a mother and two sisters because they see my children as problems. oh i was hot. as far as i am concerned, ANY person, who sees children as a problem shouldn't have them. i love my wife's sister very much, so i have pretty much adopted her as my own and i consider her fiancee the brother i never had. i still respectfully call her dad by his name cause it's just wierd calling him anything else. then there's her grandma and grandpa, grandma is old fashioned and wants to disown anybody in her family who isn't normal, they are somewhat racist too, but since their favorite granddaughter(not my wife) is dating a worthless black man kinda gives me some hope, but not much especially some of the comments he makes. they wish she hadn't made a baby with him, but we all know how that story goes. her dad has always suspected i was at least a crossdresser and always tried to break us up, but that changed when he realized i wasn't going anywhere and i would do whatever it takes to keep her beside me 4ever. the rest of her family i am not so sure about, i don't see them most of the year. both of her father's parents are now dead, so i don't have to explain anything to them. but i am really tired of hiding who i really am around everyone in her family, but i do it out of respect for her and i am really trying to take this whole thing slow so i won't be doing it alone, cause my world would just not be the same without her. she doesn't even like me to wear my hair pulled back in a ponytail around them, cause she is afraid somebody will assume something. i admit, my hair grows uneven, no one has been able to cut it right either, so no matter what i do to it, it still looks girly. just thought i would blather on because i really don't have any girl friends to talk to close by.
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Ayana

Quotejust thought i would blather on because i really don't have any girl friends to talk to close by.

  Not at all, blathering is not discouraged here (just look at some of my posts)  ;D .
 
  I am sorry to hear that family isn't quite ready to accept you. It seems that is usually the case, the one group of people who should support you no matter what and they drop and run when you need them most.
 
  Just hang in there, and remember that in the end, you have only to do what needs to be done for you and that you can't control how others feel about it.

   Ayana   :icon_geekdance:
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mickiejr1815

thank you Ayana. i just wish i could get most of it done and over with and not have to hide from everyone. it's just annoying, like today i have to go to her family's get together an hour and a half away and i half to wear these drab male clothes that i really don't want to wear. my male wardrobe is boring compared to the female one i have other than my t-shirts, and they are al used to seeing me wear my hat on backwards and i quit that too. well as long as she is happy i will try to be to.
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IsabelleStPierre

Hello,

Coming out is perhaps one of the hardest and scariest things you can ever do...I have done it both with family, friends and the people I worked with. It was the most nerve racking thing I have ever done and I was a complete basket case leading up to my coming out. I too worried about family...specifically my father who I have never thought of as progressive in any sense of the term.

I have personally had mixed results with my coming out...most of the family has been accepting to some degree. My father said that he's my father and that a father's love is unconditional; my sister said she'd rather have another sister then a dead brother...the problem person has been my mother. She says she's trying to understand, but at the same time I'm not allowed in her house and she refuses to call me Isabelle or Izzy...

Family can be the trickiest part of coming-out and while they should love you regardless, for some reason a lot of families distance themselves from those who need them most. It can take time for them to come around, some never do and there is always a chance that you could loose family members along the way...but you will also make a new family in the trans community if you reach out to them...

While coming-out was the hardest thing I have ever done, I could not move forward with my life without out. While hard, it was also the most freeing thing I have ever done in my life...

I wish you the best and hope things work out for you.

Peace and love,
Isabelle St-Pierre
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Wing Walker

Hello, Mickie, Isabelle,

This is the right place for unloading as almost all of us here has had some problem with being who they were born to be.

Of all of the people in this world I find family the least supportive and the most judgmental.  I don't care what you do, you will get more support from a total stranger than you will from your family.

If you open the absolutely best full-service supermarket they will invariably shop elsewhere.  They will buy insurance from anyone but you because they figure that you shouldn't earn a commission on your sales but others should.  It's a sad thing but I have learned it first-hand, both in business and in transitioning.

Once you get past that you can develop an attitude that you are as good as anyone else, maybe even a step more evolved, because you have lived two lives in the same lifetime.

This quote is by the late W.C. Fields, a man who didn't often fit the social mold:

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.


Find out who you are and be the best her or him that you can be.  Walk proudly, not arrogantly, but not with your eyes on the ground.  Look others in the eye and offer a small, gentle smile to other women.  Never look for a "T-friendly" merchant.  Spend your money where you will and avoid those who don't give you an honest value for your dollar.  Try your clothes on before you buy them.  Get a "carry letter" signed by your HRT doctor and your therapist/psychiatrist to attest to your sincere transitioning, and read "Back Off!" by Martha Langelan.  IMHBEO, this book is an invaluable handbook on gender and sexual harassment and how to handle it.

I wish both of you as nice a holiday season as you can possibly have and all the best in 2008.

Sincerely,

Wing Walker
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mickiejr1815

thank you wing and izzy for those encouraging words. i hope to have a good 2008 and hope u all do as well.
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Wing Walker

Quote from: mickie on December 26, 2007, 12:08:55 PM
thank you wing and izzy for those encouraging words. i hope to have a good 2008 and hope u all do as well.

As they say in the parlance of poker, never be afraid to "open on guts."  Fear is for the other person.

Stay well and be happy!

Paula
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IsabelleStPierre

Quote from: mickie on December 26, 2007, 12:08:55 PMthank you wing and izzy for those encouraging words. i hope to have a good 2008 and hope u all do as well.

Use positive thinking...don't hope to have a good 2008...say I will have a great 2008!!!

Peace and love,
Isabelle St-Pierre
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LostInTime

Quote from: Isabelle St-Pierre on December 28, 2007, 07:20:03 PM
Quote from: mickie on December 26, 2007, 12:08:55 PMthank you wing and izzy for those encouraging words. i hope to have a good 2008 and hope u all do as well.

Use positive thinking...don't hope to have a good 2008...say I will have a great 2008!!!

Peace and love,
Isabelle St-Pierre

Ummm, ok. Izzy you will have a great 2008!!!





;D ;) :laugh:
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IsabelleStPierre

Quote from: LostInTime on December 28, 2007, 07:48:02 PM
Quote from: Isabelle St-Pierre on December 28, 2007, 07:20:03 PM
Quote from: mickie on December 26, 2007, 12:08:55 PMthank you wing and izzy for those encouraging words. i hope to have a good 2008 and hope u all do as well.

Use positive thinking...don't hope to have a good 2008...say I will have a great 2008!!!

Peace and love,
Isabelle St-Pierre

Ummm, ok. Izzy you will have a great 2008!!!





;D ;) :laugh:

LOL...you know what I mean... :D
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