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Tinkerbell, I think you've just made an excellent beginning on your book.  Keep on writing and keep on growing.

Robyn

Thank you for sharing your story. The part about the green duck and the santa letters made me want to cry. I was glad to see a happy ending though.
Nero

Glad to meet you Tinkerbell.
Your story has touched my heart. And even though we have come from different backgrounds these words

QuoteI believe God has been very generous to me because He has replaced everything I'd previously lost with new and better things.  Changing genders in not a choice for us; it is simply what we have to do to stay alive; it is a necessity and not something we do for fun or pleasure.

could have been my words.
Welcome Sister,
Jillieann

Thank you, Tinkerbell, for sharing your story.

I find it inspirational - it helps me realize that I can do it too because others have gone before.

And, of course, welcome to Susan's.
helen

Sorry SIS for just getting around to reading this (beat me up later! )

But what can I Post here that we haven't said to each other already?

Accept I may not be Arnaldo But I sure would like to think I am the replacement god sent you!
And since were on the subject of old friends I have one of your old aquintances here who would like to say "HI"



Not exactly what I envisioned CHICA to look like but lets just say shes altered her appearence too!

MUCH LOVE ALWAYS
Your sister
Chynna

Welcome Tinkerbell!!

I'm very glad that you found us and thank you for such a great introduction. Wish you all the luck in the future.



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Michelle

Thanks Tinkerbell, you´re inspiration for me. I hope to start soon this change in my life.

I´m glad to meet you


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Quote from: Giovanna on August 10, 2006, 03:11:26 PM
Thanks Tinkerbell, you´re inspiration for me. I hope to start soon this change in my life.

I´m glad to meet you

Thank you so much Tinkerbell, there are so many here that have been helpful to me for quite awhile now, and I know that you are one of them.

Tinkerbell,
Wow!  Thank you for taking me through your journey.  That was eye opening and I really enjoyed it!
Gin

Thank you for sharing your story so fully. If life is a journey, and I believe it is, yours has been very interesting, and inspiring. Although I know it has been painful, I in a way envy your early and complete self assurance that you were a girl, why can't I just be one. I most certainly have shared those feelings, but have been much more ambivalent for so long. I wanted to be a girl, believed that I should have been born one, knew I shouldn't have been a boy, but have been much less sure it is fixable. Keep going Tinkerbell, you know where you belong and are getting there. I know I'm impressed and am sure everyone else here is too.

Susan K

Hi Tinkerbell,

Thank you for sharing your story.  It is very inspirational.  I also share many of those feelings you have.  I too graduated high school in 1982.  Not sure how it was for you, but a lot of the jocks in my high school picked on me constantly, some of them calling me names, saying I'm gay, etc.  One day during gym class in my sophmore year I was pushed too far by this one guy who was bullying me constantly and sucker punching me in the back.  He made me so mad that I actually snapped and knocked him out like a light bulb with only one punch under the chin, which layed him out onto the gym floor unconcious.  My gym teacher was horrified and I thought I had actually killed this kid.  I was taken to the office, placed on immediate suspension for two weeks by the principal for this incident and sent home.  They sent my bully to the hospital by ambulance where he was being evaluated for a concushion because his head hit the wooden gym floor after I had knocked him out.  He missed two days of school.  Luckily my Mom was away in Hawaii on vacation and my father was a vegetable in a nursing home at that time so the school could not get in touch with either of my parents.  My father had earlier suffered congestive heart failure and he suffered extensive brain damage afterwards due to lack of oxygen, which is why he was in a nursing home.  It was really rough being 16 and not having a father around when I needed one.  It's a wonder my family did not get sued over what I did that day at school.  Afterwards my bully never bothered me again and I think he was always afraid I would beat him up if he even tried anything against me.  All I had to do is look at him and he would run away and he never lived it down.  Even the jocks steered clear of me after they witnessed this incident unfold and they never hassled me ever again either.  After high school my bully I put in the hospital that day sadly became a drug dealer and one day during one of his drug deals that went bad, a 14 year old kid shot him to death in his own bedroom.   Guess we never know what life has in store for us, nor how it affects those that touch our lives positively or negatively.   

Anyway, I do wish you well on your journey Tinkerbell. Your story is truly an inspiration to us all.   

Shannon 

Hi Tinkerbell,

I finally got round to reading your note. It is wonderful and you are one special lady.

Yes, we do hurt people along the way, unfortunately sometimes that cannot be avoided and I still struggle deeply with the guilt of that.

The upside for all of us is we gain a life and as you say it is inaviably better than the one we left.

Buffy