I wanted to put this out there as a general big THANK YOU and to give others the opportunity to gush. Susans has taught me so much, and I don't feel outcast or alone any more, and I have a safe place to talk, and there is so much knowledge and help and caring and love and concern and pain and joy here in the threads, I cannot believe it.
Love to all who post, and everyone who has to courage to come be with us, and to those silent watchers we will never know about but we love you just the same.
Susans means lot to me. It is a lifeline for me. But now it is becoming more than that as I begin to feel the personalities of the frequent posters on the site. It is becoming my home.
What a special place to live. :)
Yes Susan's is an incredibly nice place to live
Thank you for sharing your wonderfully positive experience :)
For me Susan's was at first a resource for information, but as time went on I began to enjoy contributing to the informational aspect. Not to mention, the members here have always given me incredible support. Now I enjoy trying to help others where I feel like I can, and whenever I do have a question it is the obvious go-to place to witness a viewpoint that none of my cis friends could ever provide. Even when I was a beginner, the staff here was always super accommodating and kind to me, which makes me proud to be a staff member now!
My transition would have been much different without this place, I will forever be grateful of the people that make this site great.
Neat thread :D
It reassures me that I'm actually pretty normal. Well, for a transwoman anyway.
Anyway, I don't feel like a freak show here.
Susans saved my life.
Susan's gave me life! I was staring down the barrel of an automatic M-4 typing good bye E-mails when it popped up. I have no idea how it did, but I started reading stories here and WHACK! I realized what I had been suffering from my whole life, I had access to support and education on it and I was not a freak or alone. Now it is a BIG part of my life and seems more like a family to me than my biological one. I cant believe I hold a position here where I can do for others what previous Mods did for me. The world does turn mysteriously sometimes, but I feel like I found my destiny for the first time in my life. It is like my life before gave me the tools to be successful here. WOW! ;D
I forget how much I knew about transitioning beforehand, but since I've joined Susan's I've definitely learned so much more. Susan's really has saved my life.
I've only been posting a short time, but before I made an account the site was at first just a place to remind myself that there are people who have overcome the s%%ty times and are actually living.
Now I've started posting, it's become a safe place to begin to confront and understand all my fears and "problems" and gain as much knowledge and wisdom as possible by spending (way too much) time reading and occasionally posting.
It's lots of different things at the same time to me really, simultaneously a source of happiness, relief, comfort, joy but also fear, anger, doubt and sometimes a little hopelessness as I read all the stories/perspectives both bad and good.
Although my time here has been short, I already feel like I'm getting in touch with more of myself and who I am just by opening up to this site. That's invaluable really.
Quote from: FA on April 17, 2014, 08:48:53 PM
But I really need help now.
:icon_hug: :-*
You are loved! You know where to reach me. :)
It gave me the courage to be me. To stop hiding and pretending to be some one I was not.
I have made some wonderful friends from all over.
Susan's has made it easier to take the steps and get support when needed.
It has allowed me to have fun and while not all rosy I have tried to be positive and helpful to others and bring smiles to their faces by poking fun at myself.
I feel bad I can not be more helpful but we do what we can.
GD is so hard to deal with and had caused some very dark moments but Susan's makes it just that bit easier and is the light that brings me hope.
Hugs to one and all.
Jen
There is nothing more scary than risk taking and entrusting others with the hard stuff, the deep things. I have no idea what post it was... pm me and I will look for it... but the thing with this site is that its real life in action, with the flaws and loves and everything you might expect in a global family.
Your pic is priceless.
All it takes is a couple of us that "get it" to help out. Sometimes we focus on those that don't, which for us is actually kind of a lake filled with tears, I guess.
But we remain a family. With all the dynamics in one. The bond is unconditional love and a predestined uniqueness that can really crush us if we don't have help coping with it and don't learn its value or its power. Its really big to be trans.
So sorry to hear of your dissapointment. My time may come to, but not tonight. Its life. We can only hope the other members feel as strongly about us as we feel about them. It can be a lonely place, trans. Even in a crowd. This is where we are never alone.
Yesterday I celebrated my 7th anniversary of going full time. It was my first day at work as myself.
I was exhilarated and scared spitless. I bit the bullet and went to work wearing a skirt. And getting to that point I shared every high and low with my family here. I always knew I needed to transition, but I don't know if I would have had the courage to do it without the encouragement of my brothers and sisters here.
You have shown me that while I must walk the path by myself, I do not walk alone.
I will be eternally grateful to Susan and all of you. And for that I will be here to help the next person walk their path.
Thank you Susan.
-Sandy
Thanks hon. :)
Guess I'm just feeling emotional right now. I appreciate those who were supportive as well as everyone who has been supportive over the past few days. Think I might just be emotional cause I haven't had my T shot
WOW... Where do I start... I would say I have grown so much over the last few month because of Susan's and I am still growing. And like Jessica and most likely a few others here I was very close to doing the permanent check out. I learn from each and every person here and have grown very close to quite a few here. I swear, I go into withdraws when the site is down. It really is a big support system for me..
PS: FA if you ever need to talk just PM me... I'm here for you.
Susan's has probably impacted my life more than any other website. No matter where I am in my transition, since I found Susan's......I've never felt alone in my GID struggles or that I was the ONLY one. I found my lost tribe when I found Susan's.
Thanks All who make this happen.
Kay
Susans has been a helpful mental outlet. It's helped to confirm my suspicions I've had about myself.
And there is, the sisterhood. (https://www.susans.org/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Foi60.tinypic.com%2F2nqcj8l.jpg&hash=f8aebaab098ebb64d1728a0e388badfe8023c19f)
susans gave me the courage to transition.. when i joined up in 2008.. i was just a confused cross dresser and learned i was not the only one like this
I also joined in 2008, a very shy, nervous inadequate person with depression and alcohol issues. I was lonely and in pain.
I met people here who are now my closest friends and so many people who I love and respect.
I'm still in awe of you all that when I post at a time I feel bad I get an outpouring of love that lifts me. That is what this site is about.
Now some six years later, I am a happy healthy woman who is active in the care of gender dysphoric people. I am politically active with the sole aim of helping other gender dysphoric people world wide.
This site has changed my life, in fact it saved my life.
Susan's helped me realise I was not alone. The site has also helped me meet so many wonderful people and to make great friends, it has helped me get my thoughts in order, it's given me info and support I would have struggled to find at the time I needed it. It's helped me to feel empathy again (had lost it there for a while) and to laugh, smile, and follow other people's wonderful journeys. It's even helped me go full time waaaay sooner than I would have otherwise. Thank you, Susan. Time for another donation I think!
The impossibility to be stealth on the internet.
How can I say this without tearing up. This website, Susan's, literally saved my life. I'd been trying for nearly 5 years to find a Doctor that would help me get started on hrt, and because I live in a rural area of Florida I wasn't having much luck. I'd started losing hair again and was crying myself to sleep each night having those dark feelings of my two prior suicide attempts resurfacing. I felt trapped in the "in between" male and female state I'd lived in all my life, and didn't want to live anymore especially if I would lose all my hair on the top left side of my head.
Then as if by a miracle while doing research on hair loss crying not knowing what else to do thinking, "all I have to do is take my whole bottles of pain med's, I'd fall asleep and never wake up and this torment would finally be over," I saw at the bottom of my search page a result that discussed hair loss issues here on Susan's so I gave it a click. As I wiped the tears from my eyes I couldn't believe what I was seeing. A whole new family of people like myself, who understood what I was going through. As read on I regained my courage and dam the torpedoes I ordered my hrt meds. While anxiously awaiting my meds to arrive Susan's was my lifeline. My meds arrived the day after Christmas, and on December 27th 2013 I took my 1st dose of hrt meds. Susan's helped me to search harder for an Endo to monitor my hrt. My former PC Dr. retired and the Dr. that took over his practice was sympathetic toward what I've been going through. Well, long story short a month and a half later I found the best Endo in the world (to me anyway) who has other transgender patients and years of transgender experience. He looked at the dosages I was taking DIY, told me I did a good job but it was his turn now to take care of me. He continued my dosages I was on especially the Dutasteride, which had stopped my hair loss in it's tracks 3 days after starting on it. So I'm now being monitored and my insurance is paying for my hrt meds.
I have Susan's though to thank for bringing me literally back from the brink, getting started on my full transition, and finding the Doctors I needed to find to do so. So now 3 months, 2 weeks, and 5 days into my hrt I've never felt better,I have a positive attitude, and I've learned alot about myself. I've also because of Susan's met the two best people in the world I wouldn't have met otherwise, I've met some of the greatest online friends a girl can have, and I'll still be here for a long while even after my SRS in hopes of helping out girls in need like I myself was in need, and Susan's helped me.
There are no words I can say that are adequate to thank those of you who make this website possible. I'll only say I'm proud to be part of the family, and hope to do my part to help others as much as I have been helped by this website. Susan's is my online home. A place where I can laugh, cry, spill my guts, vent, and share happiness with this wonderful new family I now have.
Ally :icon_flower:
Four words:
Susan's is my home.
I'm new, but so far it has been a helpful source of information and reading posts here has taught me that I'm not alone or crazy.
I was never ashamed with my realisation that I'm transgender, but I was (and still am) a little freaked out since it's a relatively new thing. It helps when you have awesome friends, and it also helps to be around others who are going through (or have gone through) the same thing. I've learnt a lot about the lives of TG folks, which satisfies a long-term curiosity. There's a lot of useful information and advice. Like with many other communities, there are people who offer different perspectives on various issues which helps me develop informed opinions. Everyone is nice and non-judgemental (or at least most posters are). I've now got some grounding with my issues and I'm on my way to working out who I am thanks to this place.
I've only been here a short while, but on here is basically the only place I can be myself right now since I'm not fully out of the closet. It's the most wonderful and liberating feeling, and it's so nice to be surrounded by wonderful people who all know exactly what you're going through.
Thank you for having me and making me feel welcome. ;D
Susan's means the world to me! I've had the opportunity to meet some great people and even establish some good friendships. I was at a point where I was feeling really suicidal and Susan's was there to rescue me from that dark abyss.
Thank you to everyone whom is in this community as if it wasn't for you, this place would not be as great as it is!