Susan's Place Transgender Resources

I all, I have already posted a few things before my introduction, but I thought I should just give a breif intro. I started transtion in 1997 after graduating from school, I left home and moved some 1500 miles away. It was a rough start, and I won't go into all the details, but I was actually homless for about 6 months, luckily I was mostly able to stay with a guy I met that owned a sort of junk antique store, and he would let me stay in the back of the store. Anyway, I finally managed to find a pretty good job, and stated work and shortly after that I found a therapist through the local comunity center, who was a life saver for me. Through her I found a support group, and started attending meetings and met a few other girls there. I found my electrogist, and throuugh her found a doctor and started HRT.

Things went well and in the spring of 1999, I found a new apartment and went full time. by this time I started to re-connect a little with my family back home, and they started to try and understand things better. In the summer of 2000, I lost my job, and was again on the brink of not having anywhere to go, but I managed to save enough money, but it was supposed to be my srs money which I was scheduled for in december, but I ended up using that money to live on until the fall of 2000, when my parents aksed me to come home, so I ended up going home.

I started school and ended up getting my art degree, a BFA in painting, and actually showed my work for a little while, and worked in some galleries and museums. I work in IT now, which is toatlly boring, but pays better. In Jan 2005 my parents paid for my SRS, which was a wonderful surprise, and things with them are really good now. In the fall of 2005 I got FFS, which i paid for. Even though I had been living and passing really good for 6 years, I just felt like I needed so I did it.

I live in a really small consertative town, and my life is mostly pretty boring. I live completly un-disclosed, and this forum now is my only connection with the TS/TG comunity. I have actually gone now for quite a few years outside the community, but for some reason here latly, I have just felt like I needed to talk about things that I can't ever talk about, and I just feel like I have  some expereince and knowledege that might be helpful to someone else, and would like to offer this to someone that may need it.

So hello everyone, and hopefully I can learn something here and maybe offer something back through the journey I have been on.

-passiflora-   

Hi Passiflora,
I'm glad you posted your introdution. Now I feel I have met you.
Welcome to Susan's.
:)
Jillieann

Welcome, Pasiflora!

I'm pleased that you found us and decided to join.  I hope you get as much out of your visits here as I'm sure we will get from your contributions.  I'll be looking forward to reading more from you in the future.

again, WELCOME ! ! :)
helen

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.

-pass-

Welcome Pasiflora,

It's good to meet you.  I hope you enjoy your time at Susan's.  Would your parents adopt me?  ::)

Susan Kay

Correction added, 02/01/07, 10:44 am

Oops, sorry Passiflora, I actually put the two s's in your name at the start, then took one out for some reason.  The fingers faster then the brain syndrome I guess.

Wellcome to Susans Pasiflora,

I am sure you will enjoy your stay.

Alice