Thanks for the welcome, I was actually cut short yestrday, becuase the only time i am on the computer is at work, and I was getting ready to go home.
But I wanted to tell a little bit more about myself. I have 5 brothers and sisters, 2 sisters and 3 brothers. My youngest brother is a Marine in Iraq right now, so that really keeps the family on edge. We are mostly all pretty close, and actually they are all married accept me and my younger brother. At first it was hard on all them when I came out, and it was to hard for me to stay around them, becuase it hurt them to much and it hurt me to see them hurt. So I moved, which was really hard, becuase I was so young and it was the first time I had ever been that far away from home, and I grew up in a really comfrotable life, but I just could'nt grow into adulthood as a man, so after I graduated I knew I had to leave to transtion.
My life really was not that bad, I new from a very early age that I was a girl, and i think early on my older sister must have known to, beciase she used to dress me up and we would play with each other as both being girls. For a short time, early on my mom would even join in and they would even film me entertaining everyone, but by the time I started first grade I guess everyone figured that I that stuff should stop. I was into art from the very beginning, so this gave me something to focus on and I was good at that. I was never really pressured to do the "typical" guy thing, so I was pretty much left alone by my family. By the time I was 13 I had both my ears pierced, and by the time I was like 16 I was already wearing a little makeup. I got picked on at school some, but it just really did'nt bother me, I just withdrew into myself, and just always told myself that I was marching to my drum beat. So I really did'nt care what others thought of me, and it really did'nt bother me not to have to many friends, I just stayed solo a lot. I was really close to my younger sister, and we hung around a lot.
But I think at this point, the family just figured I was gay, and I had always kept the gender confusin bottled up, so after I graduated when I came out, it sort of shocked everyone, and of course I got the usual why can't you just be gay, we all thought you were just gay. It was at that point that I just decided to leave. When I left, I actually just went back to the area where we were originally from, around the Philadelphia area, and I actually ended up living there, and NYC, and Baltimore before finally coming back home.
My life is sort of boring now, I just got out of a serious relationship with a guy, so I am sort of getting over that. I like to paint still, and I love to cook, and decorate around the house. I love to travel and I do quite a bit of that, I'm actually getting ready to go on a european tour. London - Paris - Amsterdam, and some time later in the fall me and my siter are going to to an Itally tour we have always wanted to do.
I love pets and I have 2 dogs and a cat, and I am a total shopaholic, I mean seriously. I'm also a phone and text message addict.
So anyway this is me, and thanks everyone for welcoming me here, and maybe I can offer some help to someone.
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