Quote from: Oldandcreaky on Today at 08:26:45 PMIt depends upon how adaptive your current friends are. It's been my experience that old friends and family always hold my old self in reserve, to varying degrees. To really understand the female role and how people perceive and approach women, that'll be mostly new folks.
That makes sense. I suppose for those who transition in their 20's it might be less so, especially after they've lived longer post-transition than pre... but unless medical science is on the verge of some really keen breakthroughs, that is not going to be my experience.
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By the way, through the myriad of questions from friends today (and I do think questions are a positive - even inappropriate ones. Someone who is questioning is interested. And interest = caring) came a bunch about surgeries.
I was happy to deflect and just honestly say that I'm at page 15 in the manual, those things are on page 815. So we'll get to them when we get there.
But I also started using this new phrase to describe the three types of surgeries... don't believe I'd heard anyone do this before. And I certainly know I hadn't used it before... but I think I riffed it in conversation #1 and then kept rolling it out in subsequent conversations until, by day's end when my wife came home it is now how I think of them.
A friend asked: "So... there's more than just the one surgery people talk about?"
And I said: "Yes, there's basically three varieties - The Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost"
And, for those acquainted with making the sign of the cross, it really works - the Father (FFS), the Son (bottom surgery in all it's variations), and the Holy Ghost (BA - which you think about while literally touching both breasts in completing the sign).
I know it's stupid, but in my frayed state of mind it continues to tickle me to no end.
