i dunno if this has happened to anybody else, but i sometimes forget the contours of my female parts. say, like i'm sitting at a table and have my hands below, then i suddenly happen to take my hands to the top of the table. i forget i have extra flesh on the front and yeah, my hands hit them from below on their way up. sometimes even when i'm standing i forget and raise my hands too close to my body, and they collide. sometimes when i stand close to people measuring the distance from my face, i forget to give room for the protrusions and their hand or shoulder collide with them. that's pretty embarrassing you know.
sometimes i intentionally forget they are there, like when i'm alone at home i take off my shirt and pretend i have a flat chest. i don't look down and walk here and there. when you're in a shirt the fabric touches them so you are reminded that they are there, but shirtless and away from mirrors it feels a lot better.
I've done a few things like this-
This morning I completely forgot to put on a sports bra or binder. They just like weren't there in my mind so I completely forgot. Until I went to the mirror.
And I hit my hips on things ALL The time. Like ALL the time. Also my butt.
I have zero to lil "chest" so I never hit them. I'm a flat chested person ...almost so you can't tell and reason why I was often confused for a little boy.
it happent at times but mostly in the way I think my sentence. I have slipped with some "if I had been born a girl" or something like that.
Oh god, I can imagine that being such a downer - being constantly reminded of your least favourite bits. I feel for you.
Personally, I'm so small chested that it's never been a problem, but I do hear of trans people with larger 'breasts' and I always feel so awful that they couldn't be as lucky as those of us without. It just really isn't fair at all. Then again, I guess we're all pretty unlucky to have the problems we do in the first place.
The only time I can forget is when I am binded. It's the only time I don't look down and see my chest. Thankfully it isn't as bad as it was. There was a time I couldn't see my feet over my boobs.
yeah getting reminded of your parts is bad. i'm kinda religious and i try following concepts of my religion with much devotion, but all these years i've been so reluctant and to perform the daily rituals and i've been wondering why. reading through this i realized that i don't like the rituals because it includes reciting the stanzas with your hands folded in front of you like when you are praying, but with unbent fingers and thumbs almost touching your face. that posture eventually makes my hands press against the flesh on the front, so as long as i perform the rituals i know what body i'm in. that's pretty unfair. wish i could come out sooner and get a binder.
Honestly I forget all the time, Until I go to the bathroom or when that horrible time comes every month
Yep, I constantly forget about my chest at home. I don't wear a binder around the house unless somebody is coming over simply because I don't see the point of being uncomfortable in my own home. A lot of the time I don't think about them and while I'm not too big up top (I'm a large C maybe...no idea because it's been forever since I needed to know) I'll brush up against something, lay on my stomach, or hug my gf and get annoyed that "those things" are in the way...again.
Yeah, I usually to forget that my chest isn't the way I'd like it to be, specially after after I've been binding for a while.
I also tend to forget that roughly half that population has a penis pretty often. When I do remember it's mostly just a functional thing, not sexual.
When it comes to my breasts, I don't forget. I always squeeze them and play with them every day so it qould be awkward if I did forget. However, I feel so strongly as a male that at times I think I have a penis but in reality it's nothing but a hole down there and I think to myself "seriously?".
I think I'm too aware of my body to forget my anatomy, no matter how disappointed I am to wake up and find it. I will say, what I do forget is my T shots, like all the time. It's like my mind just doesn't realize that I have to take a shot to have the right hormone in my body. The vial is literally always staring me in the face, it's not like I hide it or anything, but shot day rolls around and my roommate is all 'did you take your shot?'. 'Ohhhhh yeah... forgot I had to do that.'
this might not be something particular to trans guys. would be interesting to know how it is for girls, cis or trans. so they constantly make an effort to not have their chest touch anything? or do they consciously decide to let them touch people or things? do they think their chest is in the way? some probably do at times.
but forgetting that i don't have a penis is a little more awkward. i wasn't born with boobs, so it's only natural to forget i have something i didn't alway have. but reaching for something that was never there is a little... disappointing when i remember.