No I have not told anyone here of my first time out. Not yet.

Its not very interesting anyway. I ended up freaking out and getting back in the car after I had sat there for an hour building the courage to go inside.

Quote from: Erin S on August 18, 2013, 04:47:07 AM
No I have not told anyone here of my first time out. Not yet.

Its not very interesting anyway. I ended up freaking out and getting back in the car after I had sat there for an hour building the courage to go inside.

Bummer. So you haven't tried again since? >.<

I paid some old bag lady $20 to pose for mine.

Quote from: marsh monster on August 18, 2013, 07:50:32 AM
I paid some old bag lady $20 to pose for mine.

That's one nice looking bag lady.

Ok didn't really splain mine. My "adopted" son (a young trans kid in our community) took this next to his house. I like the adobe wall. Looks very New Mexican. The picture is recent within a few weeks. My "son" has been taking pictures transition of me-- my therapist kind of suggested that I might want still pix of my transition. He was really right.

--Jay

Quote from: Alice In Genderland on August 18, 2013, 04:01:16 PM
I decided today to put up an actual picture of myself.  I was kind of worried that everyone would see me as a man wearing makeup if I did.  But I decided I don't really care.  My goal isn't really to pass as female anyways, I just want to be myself without worrying what people think.

You look fantastic. And thats the best attitude to take, i dont carewhat anyone thinks. All that matters is that you are comfortable with yourself.

I have a random drawing of a catboy on my avatar.
my profile name says "Natkat" cat of the night) so I tried to find a pic on cathuman as my profil picture.
I think cats are pretty facinating animals who just do what they want and enjoy there life, there also symbol of freedom, or people who dosent nessesarry follow the stream. also its a cartoon and I really adore cartoon and comic characters alot.
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I dont really feel like having a IRL picture on myself as a avatar, why should it be nessesarry? I dont think people should jugde from how I look but on what I say. besides im also very lazy to take pictures on myself and mostly I look pretty akward in them so I rather have something nice to look at.

Quote from: Natkat on August 22, 2013, 10:02:22 AM
I dont really feel like having a IRL picture on myself as a avatar, why should it be nessesarry? I dont think people should jugde from how I look but on what I say. besides im also very lazy to take pictures on myself and mostly I look pretty akward in them so I rather have something nice to look at.

but i like how you look...
still, i understand that feeling of being so unphotogenic. i generally look weird in pictures, and i'm still too chicken to deliver my entire self to google.

Quote from: Taka on August 22, 2013, 11:33:23 AM
but i like how you look...
still, i understand that feeling of being so unphotogenic. i generally look weird in pictures, and i'm still too chicken to deliver my entire self to google.

thanks, but well in general my opinions for myself is, everything where I meet people IRL like dating site or something then I prefern having a picture on cause if your to meet someone IRL then its good to know how you look like, for forums where the main focus isnt to meet people IRL I general dont have a picture on.

I changed to my current avatar the day I received my formal diagnosis. Pretty self-explanatory, I think.


Maddy

I changed to mine (It's me but with computer generated hair and makeup since I don't have that yet) when I looked in the mirror one day and saw a woman.  Yeah, it was a woman with beard shadow, big, ugly, bushy eyebrows and an adams apple, but somehow I still saw a woman and it just made me so happy that I just started giggling uncontrollably.  I decided a long time ago that when I saw a woman in the mirror, I would post a picture, I just didn't expect it to happen without makeup and long hair and still with my ugly eyebrows, so I felt like I had to at least fix those things if I was going to post a picture this early.  Sometimes I think I might be delusional and have an overly high opinion of my own looks and that what I see in the mirror is better than what people actually see.  Oh well, its me (kinda) if someone doesn't like it, why does it matter anyways right?

Quote from: Alice In Genderland on August 24, 2013, 10:46:51 AMSometimes I think I might be delusional and have an overly high opinion of my own looks and that what I see in the mirror is better than what people actually see.

I'm both exactly the same and the opposite.  I think I look cute and "boyish" in the mirror, but I'm always insecure that people really see me as some kind of mutated freak.  A lot of times, I can't stand to look at un-mirrored images of myself.

I chose lips for mine just because I loved how they looked and am way too early in all this to use an actual picture of myself.

Decided to be less fake and post what I actually look like, no fake hair, no makeup, no airbrushing.

Decided my Avatar needed a smile.
What do you think?

Smiles are good thing, especially when they are genuine.

Quote from: LordKAT on August 28, 2013, 06:57:57 AM
Smiles are good thing, especially when they are genuine.

I see a big smile on your cat.

--Jay

My Avatar is Twilight Sparkle when she has lost her color and has almost lost all hope because of Discord.  Its kind of how I feel from the discord in my head.  Maybe someday I will learn that friendship is magic and will see the return of harmony.  Hahaha I'm such a nerd.

Mines Priss from bubblegum crisis.  I'd post a picture of my self, but not as an avatar.

Murbella is a character from the last 2 books of the Dune series by Frank Herbert.  I love how the bulk of the power in the later books shifts to female characters and even before coming to terms with my issues something about that jived with me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murbella
I always loved the name, but I don't think it'll fly as an actual name if I go through with a name change at some later date.

As for the avatar, I found someone on deviant art who had drawn the character.  I love the cartoonish style, the outfit, and the sly sassy smile on her face as I felt it represented me rather aptly.

http://zazb.deviantart.com/art/Dune-Miles-Teg-and-Murbella-66834133

My current avatar is a pendant that my wife bought for me. It's symbolic of her moving into a place of acceptance.