I don't think that I have ever had a role model. Wait, when I was 12-14 I wanted more than anything to be the girl next door, does that count? We actually dated later, not tragic just kinda pathetic. What am I going to do with a girl?
We are still friends and when I go to West Virginia we get together and catch up. I admire her a great deal. There are people that I admire but role models, not really. As for trans people, I have 2 friends that I have had an online/phone/Skype relationship from the beginning. They are my rock and I love them dearly. Other than them though I basically went through transition in a vacuum. I have only just recently went to a local group and met other trans people in person.
No father, no mother and my older brother is so "guy", dude, manly and all, that it would have been as easy for me to be a unicorn as to be like him. Maybe my brain doesn't work right, but I have always felt like there was a giant pane of glass between me and the rest of the world. I have never understood people and have never felt entirely comfortable around them. Just a few close friends over the years. How can I look up to someone that I don't understand? I can fake it enough to get along casually with most people. That hasn't changed since transitioning, very little has though. Just me being comfortable with myself.
Kathryn Hepburn maybe: Never complain. Never explain.
Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, only with what you are
expecting to give, which is everything.
Marilyn Monroe: We are all of us stars, we deserve to twinkle.
A career is born in public, talent in privacy.
To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But
I am working on the foundation.
Friends accept you the way you are.
Such different women, with only a few things in common.
A deep and abiding strength.
A solid sense of themselves.
The ability to tell the world to go piddle up a rope if they didn't like it.
Not trans though.
