Metapors for the 'choice' of transitioning?

[RebeccaFog]

   I vote that Tinkerbell receive an award for coming up with a gut wrencher. A metaphor strong enough to feel.

[Ricki]

Here's a bad awful one!
""If you've been forced to live your life inside a coffin it is only fitting that you be burried in one when you die""
Yuck, sorry! .......

[RebeccaFog]

That is pretty awful, Ricki.

  You're on the right track, though, this is my interpretation of the coffin metaphor:

  Once you choose to transition, you have chosen to not get inside the coffin.

Or,

  If you choose to live within a coffin, you'll have gone nowhere before you die.

  Apparently, using a coffin in my metaphors is my downfall also. Alas,

[Ricki]

this one i like ""f you choose to live within a coffin, you'll have gone nowhere before you die""
Very good! 
I'm more depressive on paper, in person people say i am funny, witty chatty upbeat?  Hmmmmmmm where the heck is this person all the time>?
Oh My Holy stars maybe I'm not TS.. maybe I'm multiple personalities like EVE....Agghhhhh I could be killing people in my spare time or going through peoples trash on mondays? agghhhhhh
Coffee in the morning vodka in the evening, what a diet.....


Posted on: October 20, 2006, 05:23:11 PMmaybe not a metaphor but i always liked this one
"beware of the lion that does not show its teeth"
is that sort of like keep your enemies close
Or-
by not transitioning I am not complete...
Do i need to be complete to have transitioned?

I do not think i am good at this?? FROWN!!!

[Julie Marie]

It's like trying to hold your breath... for forty-two years.

I held my breath for 54 years.  Not something I'm proud of.

[Hazumu]

Last night I heard a good one at the TG support group meeting -- "It came down to a choice of living as a woman or dying as a man" (Stephanie)

Karen

[RebeccaFog]

Ricki,

  Killing people in your spare time is wrong. You should only be killing when there is a paycheck involved.
 

[Ricki]

I missed my calling I think i should of been one of those small 5'7" stealth type hit men? We Heeeee  then when i transition I'll be a hit woman! 
I'm back from camping check out my post about the tree!
Maybe sort of like a metaphor??

[tinkerbell]

A stanza from a poem:

I have no body.  A human soul needs a body to live.
So for now, I have possessed this man's body.
He was already dead when I found him.
Please forgive my current appearance.
It's the only lump of flesh I had access to,
Something I can work on...
To be alive.

Wow!  just wow!!!    ....and how many of us have felt or still feel this way....

tinkerbell

[cindianna_jones]

I'm liking the witness protection program analogy.  That is a big winner.

Yes Kate, God is in the rain.

Cindi

[Terra]

It's like attending a masqurade party all your life and having no fun at it.

Its like playing a out of tune instrument, where only you can hear that bad cord.

[Melissa]

It's like deciding to grab onto the ledge of the pit you've been falling in for all your life.

It's like discovering an escape route from Hell.

It's like living on a desolate island only to discover an abundance of life on the other side.  The choice is deciding to move to the other side of that island.

Melissa

[cindianna_jones]

It's like deciding to grab onto the ledge of the pit you've been foalling in fo rall your life.
Melissa

"foalling"  Let's see a foal is a little horse isn't it?  So to "foal" as a verb would be giving birth to a horse?  I know it's a typo, but I'm laughing my proverbial horse's arse off here.

Cindi

[Terra]

How about...

It's like trying to hold your breath, eventually you got to breath.

[Maud]

It's like wakeing up from a long slumber to a beautiful morning

[Elizabeth]

Hey everyone,

Which of us, upon being born, would choose not to take that first breath?

Love always,
Elizabeth

[brina]

Wow has this thread ever brought about a flash back lol. I remembered in June of 2004 telling my doctor that I was transgendered. In July I told him I wanted to transition. I think my words were something to the effect of 'I've been living as a male all these years and now I CHOOSE to live my remaining years as a female, WOW was my male persona ever full of itself. Fast forward to December, I still was NOT on HRT as my doctor had no experience with this and could not find anyone to assist him in what to do. I had already run into 2 roadblocks one with the 'Clarke' institute in TO and another not quite so bad with the Sherbourne clinic there as well. Needless to say I was only days away from actually breaking into a drug store to get my drugs when I found an online pharmacy that allowed me to proceed without the B&E thing. In short, for me once I had accepted the need to change and the consequences the pressure to move forward nearly reached the breaking point. SO it never was a CHOICE lol. I have to admit though that I have on numerous occassions, usually milestones, when I have cried in knowing that that Persona was dying in order to give me Life. It had done a reasonable good job of protecting the little girl bottled up inside for all those many years.

Byee,
  Brina

[RebeccaFog]

wow, Brina!

   That was a good description of the need to transition.
   I had the same thing with my old self dying. I had to die before my rebirth. That was this year. I'm still trying to start HRT.

[tinkerbell]

It is like being blind since birth, unable to see the sun, the colors and the beauty of life, and finally one day you can see everything; and although your eyes may hurt until they adjust to the light, and the pain may take a while to cease, the fact that you can see is everything that matters...



tinkerbell

[cindianna_jones]

It is like being blind since birth, unable to see the sun, the colors and the beauty of life, and finally one day you can see everything; and although your eyes may hurt until they adjust to the light, and the pain may take a while to cease, the fact that you can see is everything that matters...



tinkerbell

And then everyone around you says that you aren't supposed to see.. that it is unnatural... that God made you and that you shouldn't make it so that you can see.... "that he doesn't make mistakes."



Cindi