Quote from: kaitylynn on November 16, 2015, 07:00:41 AM
Regardless of when you find 'the calling', you are finding it and what else really matters?

Thank you for this You ladies are lifting me up right now.

I sincerely feel sad for all that suffered greatly and lost a chunk of life to dysphoria. I'm happy to read that most are finally enjoying life!

I really started puberty quite late, around age 15-16. I spent so many nights dreaming that I could magically transform into a girl and stop that madness. But somehow, regardless of that inner turmoil, I found ways to enjoy life. I hanged on to great friends, a loving family, and an indestructible passion for all things intellectual.

But I must admit, it feels great to finally be living the puberty I was meant to have all along!


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I was quite lucky that puberty started quite late for me and didn't last very long. I'd worked out what I wanted in life by the time I was 14 and I was able to start my journey when I was 16. It was a bloody hard time though but it wasn't for very long thank god xx

Puberty was so awful for me that I've repressed much of the memories I have from it. When I was about age 15, I felt depression in a way that had me bed bound for weeks at a time. Social anxiety back then, had the power to cripple me into constant lack of functionality. Multiple suicide tendencies were always just around the corner.

Sounds like most of us here had a hard time with mean ol' puberty. :/

I would cry at night wondering why God or whoever is in charge of everything down here, would "curse" me to have permanent features I knew, even then, that did not belong to me. I still have a hard time going to sleep at night, sometimes, because I cannot bind while I sleep unless I want to severe my breathing, chronically....which could happen from binding in general, anyway.

~Nixy~

yes , it looks like Dysphoria wrecked havoc during those years and then some. I'm constantly reminded of the hell of trying to sooth the pain by crossdressing and hungering for estrogen pills. I kept trying to figure out how I could steal my older sisters birth control pills.

One word that I could use to describe my puberty was wrong. I completely ignored my downstairs area, still do. When my chest started growing in around 5th grade, I remember wearing like 4 t-shirts and getting the "Why do you have so many shirts on?" question. Lot of times where I cried myself to sleep because there was nothing I could do.

puberty didnt do much to me. my voice hardly dropped and body shape didnt change at all. the only things that annoyed me were probably more of the acne, small adams apple, and slight facial hair (all of which were manageable), except bullying from looking too fem. by the time i started hrt, i basically had the body template of a prebubescent teen girl.

the most difficult thing about puberty wasnt really much about my dysphoria, but the bullying that nearly killed me twice.

Quote from: .Christy on November 16, 2015, 08:00:40 PM
puberty didnt do much to me. my voice hardly dropped and body shape didnt change at all. the only things that annoyed me were probably more of the acne, small adams apple, and slight facial hair (all of which were manageable), except bullying from looking too fem. by the time i started hrt, i basically had the body template of a prebubescent teen girl.

the most difficult thing about puberty wasnt really much about my dysphoria, but the bullying that nearly killed me twice.

you definitely look very feminine

I'm still waiting for it. Haha. I'm 32. Eek!