People who make you smile :)

[HarryP]

 Hi everyone.  I was lucky enough today to have some really great comments from a guy I totally didn't expect to be supportive of me and I want to post about him. He's my best friend's boyfriend, and he's the last person I expected to welcome me into the guys' world - he's big, he's macho, and he is very straight.  But ever since I came out to him through my best friend, he's been great with me - helping me understand the strange world of weights and working out, protecting me in the pub, even going into the gent's with me to keep me safe.  And today he said to my best friend that I am more of a man than some of his so-called mates (all really blokey blokes).       It's great that a very stereotypically straight guy is so cool with me - in fact, it's a sobering thought that he is a better friend to me than some gay men of my acquaintance.  So yeah, just wanted to share that with you guys, and if any of you have someone who makes you smile too, share it with us and spread the smiles 

[Lachlann]

That's really cool of him. I have some buddies who are like that, and they're really fun to hang around. I don't know, everything just seem normal. It's refreshing to not have my trans issues at the topic of everything. People who just treat me like another guy. Those people make me smile on the inside.

People that make me literally smile, though? I don't really smile all that much, so it's usually when I'm being an idiot in front of a girl(at that point I'm vulnerable and can't keep up with the 'cool guy' act.) I need to be smoother...

[Kurzar]

That kind of thing is what makes me happy. Just being treated like one of the guys!

[insanitylives]

Honestly. I always smile a little when my electronics teacher refers to one of the other guys as a girl(usually it's a crack on the fact that nick is more than a little on the effeminate side), and will then turn around and use male pronouns towards me.
Yes, I'm well aware how mean that is. Point is one of my teachers actually recognizes me as a guy, without me saying anything.

That'sjust a little random. But whatever. I like that class

[Dante]

I don't have anybody like that... 

But that's ok, just reading that you guys have someone that special to you makes me feel a little better. 

[AndrewMarten]

Point is one of my teachers actually recognizes me as a guy, without me saying anything.

My mentor/first philosophy prof at my previous school called me "Andrew" once or twice in front of other students, even though I've only been going by "Andy" until I can get my name changed. I wasn't passing or asking people to use male pronouns, but he knew, and this was his way of descreetly aknowledging his respect for me in this regard. It meant all the more to me, because this man is the reason I'm still in school and I plan to be a philosophy prof myself one day.

So, yea, I've had a similar experience.

I also have a friend from my first university who is more like a mom to me than my real mother (she's a non-traditional student, and is in fact old enough to be my mother). She has been so supportive of me from the beginning, and since I've come out to her she has told me that using FEMALE pronouns for me was awkward for her, because she didn't really associate the female gender with me. She also told me that, getting to know me changed her attitude toward LGBT people in general, and cleared up many misconceptions she had. She has been a major pillar of support for me over the past year and a half, and I don't know what I'd do without her. ^^

[Chamillion]

Aw I love people like this.  All of my friends have been supportive which is really great, but for some reason it makes me feel better when random people tell me they're accepting of it, especially straight guys.  One guy who makes me feel really good about it is this really buff, athletic, straight guy who used to live downstairs from me.  He always comments on how I'm looking bigger, voice is sounding deeper, etc and wants to work out with me after I get my surgery.  It's really cool 

ps I really like this topic idea! It's good to see a more positive thread on here