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Title: Mental Changes on T?
Post by: sebster on November 22, 2014, 04:02:24 PM
Post by: sebster on November 22, 2014, 04:02:24 PM
I just started on T yesterday. Yay! And, while that's amazing, I've also got a few questions for other folks who have been on T a while (which I probably should have asked before starting T):
1) I have severe ADHD. Will T make this worse?
2) Will T make it harder for me to read and write?
3) Will T make me less articulate?
4) Will T make me less tolerant of long, deep conversations with my female friends?
5) Will T make it harder to be introspective and to have deep thoughts?
6) Will T make it so I am no longer pansexual?
7) Will T make me less empathetic? Will I have trouble reading social cues from now on?
8) Will T turn me into a misogynist? I'd honestly rather die than become the thing I hate the most.
9) Will my musical tastes change?
10) Will I lose interest in social justice work? Is there a chance I'll wind up changing my major because of the mental changes on T?
11) Will T make me better at maths/science?
1) I have severe ADHD. Will T make this worse?
2) Will T make it harder for me to read and write?
3) Will T make me less articulate?
4) Will T make me less tolerant of long, deep conversations with my female friends?
5) Will T make it harder to be introspective and to have deep thoughts?
6) Will T make it so I am no longer pansexual?
7) Will T make me less empathetic? Will I have trouble reading social cues from now on?
8) Will T turn me into a misogynist? I'd honestly rather die than become the thing I hate the most.
9) Will my musical tastes change?
10) Will I lose interest in social justice work? Is there a chance I'll wind up changing my major because of the mental changes on T?
11) Will T make me better at maths/science?
Title: Re: Mental Changes on T?
Post by: NathanielM on November 23, 2014, 04:49:54 AM
Post by: NathanielM on November 23, 2014, 04:49:54 AM
I've been on T since June, so that's not very long yet but I'll just answer for me. I can't help you with 1 because I've got no experience on that part.
2 and 3 definitely haven't happened for me, nothing's changed in that department. I've heard 4+5 happen but I haven't noticed that, i still enjoy quiet deep conversations over chitchat and I'm simply an introspective person and that hasn't changed. I'm also still very emotional, which is something people told me would change. Maybe I haven't been on T long enough for that.
6 hasn't happened either, I'm still pan. I did have a period where my attraction focused on masculine-looking people but I think that's compensation because before I couldn't imagine being with a guy (with a girlbody), it just wouldn't feel right. It's evened out now, and I'm back to liking all equally :p
7 is back to 4+5 and this hasn't changed at all, I don't expect it too either. I'm a very empathic person and I would feel troubled if that changed. It's a part of me.
8 shouldn't change on T, Misogynie is a way of thinking and I believe T isn't an 'excuse' to start thinking and/or behaving that way. It hasn't changed for me.
9+10+11 are kind of the same. I'm pretty sure I'm not better at maths on T, I'm still a bit of an activist (I do speak up more on T, where before I'd stay quiet more) and my music tastes haven't changed.
I don't really think hormones would change these things, I do think your transition could chang things in your personality. Becaue you are growing nad changing and that will always have an effect on you. I'm louder (good thing for me), less shy, I act quicker instead of thinking for weeks :p, got more social... All things I would sooner prescribe to being more me and thus feeling better as a whole then to T. Those changes started before I got on T, since I started living full time as me.
2 and 3 definitely haven't happened for me, nothing's changed in that department. I've heard 4+5 happen but I haven't noticed that, i still enjoy quiet deep conversations over chitchat and I'm simply an introspective person and that hasn't changed. I'm also still very emotional, which is something people told me would change. Maybe I haven't been on T long enough for that.
6 hasn't happened either, I'm still pan. I did have a period where my attraction focused on masculine-looking people but I think that's compensation because before I couldn't imagine being with a guy (with a girlbody), it just wouldn't feel right. It's evened out now, and I'm back to liking all equally :p
7 is back to 4+5 and this hasn't changed at all, I don't expect it too either. I'm a very empathic person and I would feel troubled if that changed. It's a part of me.
8 shouldn't change on T, Misogynie is a way of thinking and I believe T isn't an 'excuse' to start thinking and/or behaving that way. It hasn't changed for me.
9+10+11 are kind of the same. I'm pretty sure I'm not better at maths on T, I'm still a bit of an activist (I do speak up more on T, where before I'd stay quiet more) and my music tastes haven't changed.
I don't really think hormones would change these things, I do think your transition could chang things in your personality. Becaue you are growing nad changing and that will always have an effect on you. I'm louder (good thing for me), less shy, I act quicker instead of thinking for weeks :p, got more social... All things I would sooner prescribe to being more me and thus feeling better as a whole then to T. Those changes started before I got on T, since I started living full time as me.