Quote from: Muffin on December 22, 2010, 07:52:48 AM
Before I started HRT I would go out with the local TG club and I don't know if it was that horrible testosterone in my body but I had an interest in skirts, heels and make-up. Looking back I cringe and am glad none of my family witnessed any of that. Now I'm all about the shmexxy tight jeans, sneakers and andro style shirts. I pass and I'm more than happy with that! Not that I can't walk in heels 
they're just more convenient!
I never did that, but I see a lot of other people who at first just swing wildly towards what they consider to be the uber-feminine side of things. A couple of months ago I was heading into my electrologist's office, and another transwoman was leaving. She was wearing a mini-skirt, high heels... She looked like she was heading to a nightclub, but it was the middle of the day. I just remember thinking to myself that I don't know one natal woman who would wear anything like that during the day. And even if they had to wear heels for work or whatever, they would have switched to a walking shoe to head to their electrologist appointment... Plus, dressing like that does nothing but get a person clocked if they're not that passable.
I can walk in heels just fine, but I prefer boots, sneakers, things like that. Casual wear for me is jeans and Converse All-Stars, the most comfortable shoe I own.
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Now when I hear guys talking about love, relationships, how a girls mind words I just think "gooosshh you haven't a clue"... "but carry on it's still interesting!!!!!!". I guess if there is anything that I knew was coming it was knowing that I would be more emotional and less "angry", I still have my moments but they are fewer and further between. I remember a friend once said "the lowest moments on E are still higher than the highest moments of T". It's a fun statement maybe not true true but I took from it the fact that even low times on E can still feel comforting.. like crying it's so cathartic. So in a way things don't seem as dire as they used to.. can't say how much I saw that coming though.
I feel the same way as your friend... the low moments on E are much preferable to even my highest moments on T. I actually think about that a lot after I'm done crying or sobbing or otherwise having an emotionally low day. So it's true for me... :-)
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As far as hobbies and interests go I've let a lot of my old interests fade away and kinda feel in limbo... actually I don't feel as obligated to have an interest or hobby.. but if something pops up that I fancy then I'll do it. eerrr... no pun intended :/
speaking of such I've found that certain people I know think I'm funnier than I used to be, I think that has come from being happier with myself.. I should of seen that coming but didn't. I also think my taste in music has expanded I feel more open minded about what I'll listen to and enjoy I never thought there would ever be a time where I could say I'd listen to IDM/electronica but ...here we are!
Most of my interests have changed, I think simply because I get no reward from doing them anymore. Though I never really went to the extent of typical genetic males (because I never felt like one or fit in with them), I used to take part in some more aggressive activities, like shoot-em-up video games, to kind of have an outlet for some of that aggressiveness I got from T. I don't really have any of that anymore... slowly but surely, I got to a point where they just don't do anything for me. And I have switched roles in multiplayer games, I always pick support characters that aren't on the front lines of battle.
My music tastes have changed a bit... I still listen to a lot of Industrial, goth, EBM, IDM, etc., but now I find myself listening to the less "angsty" stuff, because I'm not angry anymore I guess :-)
