I'm currently pre op.

Optimistically, if I get to transition while I'm in my 20s, I'll start my life in a woman's body in my 20s.

I missed out on growing up in a girl's body.

I'm 26, just barely starting full time.
Consider yourself lucky, some girls never get to come out, and some do it far later on than what one would consider ideal.

This is the best time for you
Let's celebrate.

Audree

Quote from: audreelyn on November 27, 2015, 09:39:08 PM
I'm 26, just barely starting full time.
Consider yourself lucky, some girls never get to come out, and some do it far later on than what one would consider ideal.

This is the best time for you
Let's celebrate.

Audree

Hopefully one day I become more "glass half full".

You know really, come the end of the day, it doesn't matter what your body looks like. I've yet to find someone who is totally happy with their body.

It's what's between your ears is what drives the joy machine. It's there you can be whoever you want to be, regardless of what your body says.

The past you have no control over, the present and future, you are in complete control. We all control our own destiny, one way or the other.

Speak to you as soon as I've finished ironing the curtains.

Huggs
Catherine

I agree. Be happy with what ya got!

I transitioned at 28 and have been going thru my 30s

I think it really doesn't matter when we transition....we always wish it would have been sooner or younger.

I definitely wish I'd been able to grow up as a little girl.....but I've come to accept that i'd be a different person because of it.

Quote from: Catherine Sarah on November 27, 2015, 09:56:54 PM
You know really, come the end of the day, it doesn't matter what your body looks like. I've yet to find someone who is totally happy with their body.

It's what's between your ears is what drives the joy machine. It's there you can be whoever you want to be, regardless of what your body says.

The past you have no control over, the present and future, you are in complete control. We all control our own destiny, one way or the other.

Speak to you as soon as I've finished ironing the curtains.

Huggs
Catherine

If I keep looking back I'll just make myself miserable.
Try to look forward.

I dunno, I sometimes think about 'lost childhood', but at the same time many kids are miserable regardless of gender identity. You couldn't pay me to go through highschool again just to do it as a guy!

I'll be forty next year and I just started going out as myself on a regular basis. In life we all have things we wish had happened differently whether we are trans or not. I know it's hard though. We all did miss out on a lot being forced to grow up as the gender society forced us into. However we are all still here and breathing so we can change the present and the future and live as we wish now. 

FWIW, I'm 62 (where did the time go??) and just starting HRT.  So if you'd rather see the glass as half full, you've got womanhood to look forward to in the prime of your life.

I've sometimes wondered if I would have felt happier and/or more like myself if I'd been born a girl like my parents wanted.  But I look at my little sister (well, she'll always be my "baby" sister to me), and I think that, for all of the misery in my life, I got off better than she did.  As the third boy, I got more or less ignored which, while painful, at least gave me some room to have an independent self.  (One that was wanting in every respect worth thinking about, but still, my own.)  My sister did not get that.  Only now, at age 53, 6 years after our mother died, has she gotten to the point of having a boyfriend (now fiance.)  I hope that she's finally finding room for her to find herself.

So, there's a part of me that wishes I had had a girlhood -- but not if it would mean being in the family I grew up in.

Quote from: Peep on November 28, 2015, 08:38:08 AM
I dunno, I sometimes think about 'lost childhood', but at the same time many kids are miserable regardless of gender identity. You couldn't pay me to go through highschool again just to do it as a guy!

Thank You Very Much.

Lots of humans had horrible childhoods for all sorts of reasons.

Quote from: Christy76 on November 28, 2015, 09:53:24 AM
I'll be forty next year and I just started going out as myself on a regular basis. In life we all have things we wish had happened differently whether we are trans or not. I know it's hard though. We all did miss out on a lot being forced to grow up as the gender society forced us into. However we are all still here and breathing so we can change the present and the future and live as we wish now. 

Thank You Very Much.

Just hope I can become post op and start living as me.

Quote from: Asche on November 28, 2015, 11:06:05 AM
FWIW, I'm 62 (where did the time go??) and just starting HRT.  So if you'd rather see the glass as half full, you've got womanhood to look forward to in the prime of your life.

I've sometimes wondered if I would have felt happier and/or more like myself if I'd been born a girl like my parents wanted.  But I look at my little sister (well, she'll always be my "baby" sister to me), and I think that, for all of the misery in my life, I got off better than she did.  As the third boy, I got more or less ignored which, while painful, at least gave me some room to have an independent self.  (One that was wanting in every respect worth thinking about, but still, my own.)  My sister did not get that.  Only now, at age 53, 6 years after our mother died, has she gotten to the point of having a boyfriend (now fiance.)  I hope that she's finally finding room for her to find herself.

So, there's a part of me that wishes I had had a girlhood -- but not if it would mean being in the family I grew up in.

I'm so sorry. (*Hugs*)