Does anyone else feel they need a break from transsexual topics now and then?

[Sheila]

Hi all, what a relating subject. I got all wound up with the city and a lot of other TS things and just threw in the towel and gave up on all the trans things in my life. I'm back now and I really do miss relating to most people on this issue as it is my life. I can't run from it nor do I want to. I love who I am, I have never stopped loving myself, but go really tired of others who can't seemed to like themselves for who they really are. I'm proud to be me. I'm back at working with trans people with the city and I'm back here. I am a very emotional type person, always have been and finding about who I am, well, kind of makes me go off the deep end every once in a while. Maybe more than I would like to count. I'm a lot more than just trans, I have had learning disabilities and some other personal problems. I still must be OK as my wife is still with me after 38 years and two children and numerous cats and dogs and other farm animals, not to mention being post op for 3 years now. Yes, I do need a break from some subjects, like TG'ism, every once in a while. It helps me clear my hollow head from time to time, in doing so I hope I don't tread on anyone.
Love Sheila

[RebeccaFog]

Nice to see you around, Sheila.

   I was wonder about you a few days ago.  I'd like to work with trans people. Maybe someday.


Hugs,

Rebecca

[Sheila]

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   I was wonder about you a few days ago.  I'd like to work with trans people. Maybe someday.


Hugs,

Rebecca

Rebecca, you are working with trans people now. There are people out there who maybe lurking and read one or two of your posts and say that is me, there are others out there like me. They will start by joining in on a place like Susans or another place and then learn more about who they are. They won't feel like they are some freak, cause there are others just like who they are, out in the world, their state or community.
Sheila

[RebeccaFog]

Thank you, Sheila.

[Debbie_Anne]

A small update...
After visiting a friend of mine in the hospital after her SRS, and she and I and two other good friends got to chatting, we all realised that just the four of us were the best support group we could have.  So we've decided to break away from our local TS support group and get together at the least once a month.  After all I've been going through in my head and with others in the local TG community, it feels great to feel that I belong to a small sisterhood of close friends.  I have not been this happy in quite awhile.

[Steph]

That's really great news Bebbie-Anne.

While support groups can often provide the technical support that we need quite often that personal support is lacking.  We choose our circle of friends for many reasons and one important one is that we can talk and share our sorrows, happiness and problems.  It's true that our friends may not be up to speed on our Trans issues but they are still there none the less.

It's good to have friends like your's, treasure them cause they are special.

Steph

[Aeyra]

Yeah sometimes I get sick of talking about TG and hormones and all that. I come to this place mostly because I get plenty wound up living here in south Dakotastan (but I'm making better strides at getting out) and have to keep myself from banging my head against the wall all day.

[Rachael]

When i need a break from the topic.... I log off

[tinkerbell]

When i need a break from the topic.... I log off

LOL  I normally mark all topics as "read", except the ones that appear interesting   That seems to do the trick for me!




tink

[Janet_Girl]

I have had days were I wanted nothing to do with being TS.  I am ready to just live my life.  But I am still young in transition.  There is much to learn yet.  And there is the final step to work for, SRS.

But there are the new ones to consider, they need people to look up too.  Just as I do, with some of you older girls ( transition wise, not age ).

Janet

[Rachael]

im still pre op (depressingly) but trans fills up about 1% of my life? I dont think about it IRL at all tbh... i read and post on this board as something to do... well i know about it? why not?

[LivingInGrey]

I find myself in and out of the mood to read some sections of the forums. Just depends on my mood I guess.

I also find myself in a oh I have to comment on this one mood... That doesn't happen often though... Today just seems to be a weird day for me =/

[Miniar]

The day when I am "only" a transgendered person and not a sibling, parent, employee, etc.. etc.. etc.. or "transgendered first and foremost!" is the day when I've gone too far.

[Northern Jane]

I "transitioned" in 1974 at the age of 24 and led a normal woman's life for over 30 years. I popped in to the forums a few years ago and have stayed (mostly) ever since in the hope of doing some good.

I DO find it very hard quite often. You see, my "transition" and the years after just confirmed to me that I was just a normal woman (after the physical stuff was set right). Coming to these forums and reading the debates about "what is a woman" and 'are you ever really a woman if you were trans' just eats away at the things I came to accept years ago and all the things my life's experience has taught me. That's why, every once in awhile, I just have to stay away from the boards for awhile, surround myself with friends (and cute guys) and remind myself just where I fit in the real world. I have been on the verge of taking another "vacation" in the past few weeks.

[Ms Bev]

Yes....
I get very tired of the whole ts thing sometimes.  I'm more interested in the lesbian thing now, but mostly, I'm just another woman trying to pay a mortgage, just another partner looking for a new place to have lunch and fun (what we can afford).  Just another woman in a two mom household.
I'm just another woman who never thinks about being 'read' in public.
Just a woman, working an aggressive, mostly male sales job.

Mostly, Marcy and I just go about our new lives, being 'us'.

Then, not every day, I pop in here for a while.

I don't know why I still do.


Bev

[NicholeW.]

My answer is "yes." Consistently. I tend to do what Tink does.

[Sephirah]

It's not so much the topics as people in general I sometimes need a break from. I have to do the emotional equivalent of a memory dump every so often or I start to feel quite unwell.

When that's done, the actual subjects don't interest me as much as those who post in them and why they think the way they do.