Hi, figured I'd pop in here and introduce myself first. I'm Angela, well at least that's the name I have my heart set on for some reason. While I was born male and kind of lived that way outwardly for most of my life I've realized even in my earliest memories I'm really a woman. I'm currently twenty-three and while as I said had issues with my gender from earliest age I mainly kept it under my figurative hat, early on figuring people just made a horrible mistake which I would soon prove wrong then finally understanding why I was assigned male at birth, took it hard enough to repress it enough to where it was just a vague voice in the back of my head while I walked around in auto-pilot mode. Over time though it was inevitable for me to grow very unhappy and a little depressed with life, feeling empty, couldn't even crack a smile for a while. By the time the year started I had just become so numb to everything even something like a paper cut couldn't get any emotion out of me. But as I grew closer to turning twenty-three earlier this year I knew I had to get myself back together and find out what I had buried so long ago. I started voicing my thoughts with my Mom who at first I thought was going to blow her top as she is very conservative about things but didn't judge when I first told her I liked men a few months ago and told her a week ago that I was really a woman, she was puzzled a bit but her only two questions were what I planned on doing about it (which I replied I don't know yet which was true at the time) and who I voiced my thoughts with so far. She told me she doesn't care as long as it makes me happy she just wants to make sure I'm safe.
Now I know it's time to transition, I have the approval I need but know literally nobody in the same or similar situation. I don't really have any friends as I live at home with my Mom to take care of my little sister who has cystic fibrosis, don't get out much as it's been financially rough for the last few years since my Dad died. We live in a small town in Florida which isn't even qualified to be called anything other than an unincorporated community, population in the triple digits. I'm not much an outdoorsy type so I spend a lot of time inside watching movies, playing video games or writing stories, primarily crime fiction on all accounts. Came here because I really don't know where I'm headed and have no clue what I'm doing.
