I am writing this for both feedback but more so to hopefully help others that might be questioning their sexuality.
Also the last couple of days have been somewhat stressful and I have been feeling depressed also at some of my most questioning of my own gender issues.
When I was young maybe 7-8 I was introduced to the concept of transsexuals in such a way that I developed my first prejudice which lasted to a few years ago. Now here on Susans I feel joy when things go well for people and sorrow when things go poorly.
Here is where it gets a bit disturbing
When I was 9-10 playing with a friend I played the tied up damsel in distress. My first time climaxing was dressed in a one piece bathing suit and in self bondage. 90 % or more of the sexual releases that I have had in my life were while I was wearing women's underwear, imagining myself as a woman or as a man being tied down being used as a woman. Every time I finished I would be totally disgusted with myself, in fact I still have troubles accepting that.
(Yeah I'm not going to post a picture I don't think there would be enough alcohol to blur the horror of that mental image )
During secondary school and beyond I would never admit to myself that I might be transgender I still had that prejudice but I would often wish that I had of been born a girl. I never saw myself as a woman in a mans body nor did it bother me that I was male I just would have prefered to be a girl.
When I was playing mmo's I found that I only really associated with women never the men. One husband who was jealous of his wife chatting online with males didn't have a problem with her chatting with me (not really sure how to take that one

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Around 10 years ago or so a friend of mine came out as transgendered and I reacted poorly (not to his face but to other friends) but in the end it resulted to coming to terms with transgendered people and in the end accepting them. But I still said to myself "no I am not transgendered".
In the last 10 years or so I became obsessed with the sexual fantasy of being forcefully changed into a woman "against my will". Especially during the summer when my libido seems to be particularly bad I have thought quite a bit about finding estrogen somehow and self medicating until I had breasts. But I was still not transgendered. (my intention is to wait until I can eventually go through legal and safe means).
In the last month or so I was looking for forced feminization videos but I found myself watching videos on transsexuals and one was somewhat close to what I was feeling. It was finally at that point that I said maybe I am transgendered. Then I found Susans Place and a week or so later I signed up and here I am.
Today as I sit here writing what I have never told a soul, heck I wouldn't accept it in myself until very recently. Today I find myself thinking no I don't want to go through the uphill battle of transitioning. I am ok with presenting as a male and finally I feel that I want this not that I need it.