Hi, all. DianeL here. Like so many, I have wanted to be a girl for as long as I can remember, 5 yrs. old or so. I have a vivid memory of being dressed as a girl for halloween by my mother and my aunt when I was in fifth grade. I remember being so thrilled, wearing stockings and a little panty with garters to hold them up. Of course, they had no idea they were fulfiling my biggest fantasy. What if I had ever said something then? Would my life have been different, more fulfilling? So many of us more mature girls spent so many years alone in the closet, thinking we were the only person in the world who wanted to dress as a girl, or be a girl, even though born as a boy. I think it has to be genetic, because for me it started way before puberty, the sexual thrill only came later. Now, because of the internet and the ability to make connections, I have been able to meet with other girls and feel comfortable and relaxed in my feminine persona. How nice, indescribale, to meeet with someother people all of us dressed in our hels and stockings, makeup, etc. Not for sex, just to finally be acknowledged as someone who is not a freak, or strange, as I was afraidof, but as a person, a girl person!