Quote from: Jill F on June 24, 2014, 02:15:20 PM
Woohoo! Happy estroversary, Grace.
heehee - love that.
Thanks everyone for your well wishes. It surprises and humbles me that some people see me as an inspiration, I just feel like a person who had to do what she had to do or go bonkers. I guess my first attempt, all those many years ago, was such an utter mess and felt like a total disaster that this time I was determined to make it come hell or high-water. The first attempt had felt like a 'failure' for so many years, it wasn't until my gender counsellor helped me see that it wasn't, that I had been struggling badly and that dropping transition was really the option that was going to stop me losing the plot completely.
Realising I was the person in charge of my destiny and finding the self confidence to embrace and live the life I wanted was the key for me.
Being on Susan's, seeing what everyone here is going through/has gone through - regardless of gender, age, circumstances, status (pre/post HRT/SRS/whatever) - really helped me see I wasn't alone; that there were so many others with the same doubts, similar struggles, worse struggles. That gave me the strength and courage I needed.
So thank you everyone on Susan's,
you have been
my inspiration.
