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Did you ever stop and think about just how weird this all is?

Started by AnamethatstartswithE, January 21, 2019, 08:50:02 AM

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AnamethatstartswithE

I mean, it is kind of bizarre. We take hormones, we have surgeries, and we examine our target sex in a detail most scientists wouldn't use, just to be ourselves.

I remember back in high school, I used to worry that I would lead a boring life...

I guess I don't have to worry about that now.
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sarahc

I accepted I was trans a long time ago, and while it felt weird for a few years, eventually it just felt normal and a part of me.

And that was 20 years before I decided to transition, when I finally made the decision to stop ignoring this part of me and to not just accept it but embrace it.

But I know that it is totally weird for most people...it's such a alien concept for most.
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Known that I am trans since...forever.
First therapy session / decided to transition / hair removal: October 2018
HRT: January 2019 (journal https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php/topic,244009.0.html)
Hope to go full-time: July / August 2019
FFS / SRS: 2020
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Mendi

Yeah, I´ve been thinking that this really didn´t turn to be a boring life, in any indicator.

Though, I have a few words with the manufacturing quality control, when I get to meet my maker...
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Faith

cis people on both sides do things to make themselves 'better'. Some, imo, ruin themselves in pursuit of their ideal. Those are also weird paths, again imo.

I felt weird my whole life. I did things to 'correct' myself when I didn't even know what was wrong. What I am doing now is no more weird than ever. Then again, it's a vast improvement so, for me, less weird.

'weird' is like 'normal' .. no one is and everyone is.
I left the door open, only a few came through. such is my life.
Bluesky:@faithnd.bsky.social

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BrianaJ

Why yes...yes I have.  Many times.  I met a person many many years ago that I looked to for some advice and guidance.  They lived a dual life which I was always amazed at.  We had many a serious discussions about transition etc.  They said to me, "Why the BEEP would you want to do that...transition to a woman?  So you can be a secretary?  So you can get harassed - discriminated against?  Doesn't it seem weird to go through all you'll go through just to put yourself in that position?"  Over the years, I've thought about that discussion many times from many different angles.  And just how weird it can all seem or be.  Imagine being on the other side looking in and trying to understand it all.   
~~Be kind~~
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pamelatransuk

Quote from: BrianaJ on January 21, 2019, 09:21:13 AM
Imagine being on the other side looking in and trying to understand it all.   

Yes we constantly think/analyse/examine the subject of Gender and those on the other side never consider the subject.

Personally I think what I was doing before taking action to address it, was living my life essentially as an actress!

Hugs to all

Pamela


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ChrissyRyan

Always stay cheerful, be polite, kind, and understanding. Accepting yourself as the woman you are is very liberating.  Never underestimate the appreciation and respect of authenticity.  Help connect a person to someone that may be able to help that person.  Be brave, be strong.  A TRUE friend is a treasure.  Relationships are very important, people are important, and the sooner we all realize that the better off the world will be.  Try a little kindness.  Be generous with your time, energy, wisdom, and resources.   Inconvenience yourself to help someone.   I am a brown eyed, brown haired woman. 
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CindyLouFromCO

I feel more normal now.  It was weird trying to be a boy.  It was weird trying to hangout and fit in with the other boys at school and in Boy Scouts.  Boy Scouts was probably the weirdest thing I ever did.  OMG!
I've taken what others have offered, so now I'm giving back.
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KathyLauren

Yes, many times.  I call those my WTF moments.  The first one lasted 60 years! :D  Since then, they have been getting less frequent and they don't last as long.

As Buddy Ryan would say, "But I'm feeling much better now!"
2015-07-04 Awakening; 2015-11-15 Out to self; 2016-06-22 Out to wife; 2016-10-27 First time presenting in public; 2017-01-20 Started HRT!!; 2017-04-20 Out publicly; 2017-07-10 Legal name change; 2019-02-15 Approval for GRS; 2019-08-02 Official gender change; 2020-03-11 GRS; 2020-09-17 New birth certificate
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AnneK

When I first tried on my sister's tights, I worried someone else would find out as it wasn't normal that a boy would want to do such a thing.  This is something I worried about for years, whether it was wearing pantyhose under my pants or going for full cross dressing.  Now that I have accepted who I am, those things are normal.  So, as mentioned in my sig, I wear a bra, pantyhose and nail polish daily and consider it normal, because it is.  And, I'll soon be on hormones, barring any medical reason to prevent it.
I'm a 65 year old male who has been thinking about SRS for many years.  I also was a  full cross dresser for a few years.  I wear a bra, pantyhose and nail polish daily because it just feels right.

Started HRT April 17, 2019.
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ChrissyRyan

Sometimes I do have these WTF (Why the Fuss?)  moments.   :)

There certainly is a lot of effort and determination required and a lot of challenges at times.


Chrissy
Always stay cheerful, be polite, kind, and understanding. Accepting yourself as the woman you are is very liberating.  Never underestimate the appreciation and respect of authenticity.  Help connect a person to someone that may be able to help that person.  Be brave, be strong.  A TRUE friend is a treasure.  Relationships are very important, people are important, and the sooner we all realize that the better off the world will be.  Try a little kindness.  Be generous with your time, energy, wisdom, and resources.   Inconvenience yourself to help someone.   I am a brown eyed, brown haired woman. 
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Lynne

Oh, did I ever! These kind of thoughts surfaced a lot of times and they were usually followed by a period when I tried to distance myself from trans* things because I felt that this whole thing is so out of this world and strange that it cannot be true. I was overthinking my situation and tried to approach the subject from all possible angles until I realized that I can think about it as much as I want I will never have the chance to be truly happy if I don't do something about it.
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Linde

Whatever it is, it my intersex condition or is it a mental thing?  I never stop to think about myself in whatever roll I was. When i was little, I played the same stuff an d was dressed the same like my sister.  I did not know that this was girls stuff, because I had no idea what gender is.  Later, I was told that I am a boy, and I tried to play a boys roll, it was easy in the beginning, as much fun as playing a girls roll, and not really that much different.  Later in my life, a constant and growing anger build up, but I had no idea why?  It was almost as if I was angry to be angry.  Anyway that anger destroyed my marriage, and I finally looked for professional help.  The anger went away, and I found out that I was not really a man, but just tried to play one, and finally failed in that roll.  But I still did not know what I was, because I still did not have any clear gender identity (and i still don't have one).  I accepted my new roll of not really being anything, because I was usd to this all along.  Some years later my desire to become a woman got stronger and stronger, and my body started to develop breasts (today I know that I never finished puberty, and this was the beginning of finishing it), and my female chromosoms took over, and I believe that this was the last push I needed to become a woman.
But I still don't wonder about it, because for my entire life I was used to live in an unusual body not really matching the roll I was old I had to match.
I mean, trying to be a manly man inside a body that is still pre-puberty, and pretty heavily female looking, gets the brain to accept a lot of different stimulations.  Nothing about myself makes me sit back and wonder, I have learned to take it as it comes!
02/22/2019 bi-lateral orchiectomy






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Beverly Anne

Before coming out was weird. This doesn't feel weird at all. It feels very natural. I'm finally at ease with myself. I can enjoy being who I am.
Be authentic and live life unafraid!
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KathyLauren

2015-07-04 Awakening; 2015-11-15 Out to self; 2016-06-22 Out to wife; 2016-10-27 First time presenting in public; 2017-01-20 Started HRT!!; 2017-04-20 Out publicly; 2017-07-10 Legal name change; 2019-02-15 Approval for GRS; 2019-08-02 Official gender change; 2020-03-11 GRS; 2020-09-17 New birth certificate
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randim

There are some days I hardly think about anything else (though not always in the context of weird),  but then I am turribly conflicted about it all.  I do have to say though, the feeling of putting some clothes or shoes on and feeling 100 percent normal about that, which sometimes happens, is just unbelievably sweet.  It's like the sun coming out from behind a cloud.
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Rachel_Christina

In the end funny enough, you just kind of forget about it really? It will hit you in waves mind.
Mostly hits me in amazement of where I am now, compared to where I was.


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Chaerlie Bjerkenstök

Quote from: Mendi on January 21, 2019, 09:15:38 AM
Yeah, I´ve been thinking that this really didn´t turn to be a boring life, in any indicator.

Though, I have a few words with the manufacturing quality control, when I get to meet my maker...
Amen to that sister! Amen to that.

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Lacy

There are so many great thoughts and responses to this thread!

I never felt normal before. I always wondered why I felt weird and had to fake everything that my friends seemed to just know.

Since the first time I fully accepted myself I have felt extremely normal! My normal. Screw what society thinks is  normal...they don't know me!

One person's normal is another person's weird!

Lacy
She believed she could so she did!

The continuing story of my new life!



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AnneK

I'm a 65 year old male who has been thinking about SRS for many years.  I also was a  full cross dresser for a few years.  I wear a bra, pantyhose and nail polish daily because it just feels right.

Started HRT April 17, 2019.
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