Childhood reflection(s)

[Thrall]

Hello. i'm pretty new here, my intro is where it belongs - at intros' subforum.

today i just remebered that i used to pass most of the time when i was a kid (0- 12 y/o) unintentionally, of course, but i was pretty happy about that, and my mom was never mad at people who said sth about her "son".

has anything like that happened to you?

[Alex37]

i've heard lots of stories like yours, but i never was mistaken for a boy as a kid.  my mom made sure of that by insisting on dressing me up and putting bows and ribbons in my hair.  oddly, i actually liked the ribbons lol, but that's just me.  looking back on my pictures, i look kinda boyish anyway, so maybe if i had been dressed differently i would have passed.

welcome to the site  🙂

[PandaValentine]

A childhood friend of mine who's a chick got confused more for being a boy than I did. But that's because as a kid I hated having my hair cut. However that was just because I was one of those wild children who didn't care about hair cuts or clothes, I just wanted to run outside as fast as I could and ride my bike as far as I could go. I only started getting confused for being a boy when I was 17, quite often and I was out as androgynous, it's what pushed me to coming out as trans. I miss those days.

As for my mum she probably would have let someone calling me a boy slide, now a days that she knows, pft she's sure to correct them as quickly as possible.

[malinkibear]

I always had long hair and a cow-licked fringe. Never dressed girly, but always in girls' clothes, and I had a small, cute face. No being mistaken for a boy there.

[Jigsaw]

I have been refereed to as male my whole life by strangers.  Less now because I let myself get a little chunky, but I still get it a bit.  It used to really tick my mom off when we went out to eat at a cafeteria she really liked and I was always being called Sir. Sometimes she would correct them, but I think by the time I graduated from high school she gave up.