I've been on and off of here since I was 17 (I'm 23 now, 24 in April) but I finally decided to make an account since I'm trying to get more active with myself as well as others and in the LGBT community in general. I'm FtM, pre-everything, but I want to go on T in the next 5ish years or so (hopefully lol). I'm kinda on the fence about surgeries because I've got fibro and I feel pain worse than most people but I've been thinking more and more about top surgery.
Anyway, I'm partially out partially not; my family has no idea, nor does my current bf's family. However, everywhere else, I am pretty much out. I don't know if I'm ever going to tell my parents 'cause I tried telling them once before and while they took it well, I got the whole 'it's just a phase' thing which kind of made me go back to being closeted. I spent a year when I was 17 presenting but then I kind of stopped because I got super self-conscious and ended up trying to put the trans* portion of my life on the backburner because it was just adding a load of depression that I couldn't deal with in a healthy manner into my life, at that point since I was already depressed. Not thinking about it worked, kind of. However, I dealt with everything that was going on and this past year is when I started presenting again, it's great I feel great :y But yeah, hmm. I also started coming out properly about a year ago! Things were... a little rocky at first, but I'll leave it at that. It's getting better, rn, and I have some great friends who support the crud out of me. Definitely not stealthing, though.
I'm currently in GA and I'm working two jobs - both of which I started from scratch (raising rabbits and taxidermy). I'm thinking about applying to be a police officer, but first I need to get more physically fit in a way that doesn't trigger my fibro. I know I'd be able to land the job if I wasn't so wibbly-wobbly in the physical strength department, so I just have to apply myself & stop being so lazy.
Other than that, I'm pansexual, polyamorous (closed relationship right now...), and tentative drag queen (unable to really work on this rn lol). My preferred pronouns are: he/him/his/etc or they/them/their/etc. :> I also self-manage anxiety so sometimes I might just never reply to things on the forums (so sorry if this happens! It's not youuu) because I get anxiety attacks over social interaction on occasion, but hey, a little interaction is better than nothin'.
So yeah, hi. 83