That is so disgusting.
I feel like being sick.

How ccan anyone do that to their body. It has to be massive amounts of drugs sent into muscle groups. You cannot exercise to that.
Yuk.
Thaks Heather just lost my dinner

Love

Cindy James

BTW what is your truck(? Aussie slang) called it looks great.

CJ

That's disgusting!

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) comes in many forms.  This appears to be one of them.

He probably is eating more steroids than food.  I would wager that his life expectancy is less than five years.

He may or may not be running away from GID.  But it is apparent that he has a problem of some sort that he is over compensating for.

I pity him.

-Sandy

I've seen that pic before. Absolutely revolting.

In answer to the question of extremes in denial though, yeah, I went through a whole cycle of self destruction alternated with periods of running in my early 20's. I did alot of martial arts and weights at uni and injured myself pretty seriously in the process. Once I got out of uni I proceeded to wreck my career as a programmer, have a starter-marriage that lasted less than a year, wander the country for a while, and after crashing and burning I got on a plane and went to Taiwan for a year. There I did okay for a while, but yeah, couldn't stay happy, so I came back to ZA and wandered some more, almost became a monk, finally confronted my GID, went to the UK and started transition.

Mina.

Quote from: heatherrose on April 12, 2009, 04:41:46 AM

What extremes have we all pushed ourselves to,
while we were in denial?

Hi Heatherrose,
I feel as though you're asking about actions or behavior, concious or unconcious a person with GID may have exercised  as a means to empower denial of ones self? I'm not in transition, (yet, she says knowingly), but I am trying to get it together so as to afford therapy, and move forward towards peace and happiness.

For me, my denial manifested itself over decades of extreme and dangerous alchohol and drug use. Also by living life precariously, "on the edge", in the name of fun and adventure, which was more likely a way to destroy myself so I could go out in "glory" doing "manly" things, alot of which were illicit, warranting incarceration if caught. I never got into the body-building thing, eww. I did labor intensive jobs amongst a rather motley crew of roughfians, wannabe ganstas, drug users and scofftlaws. I was even the foreman for 8 years, go figure.

18 months ago I left my last job after 12 years to relocate and "do manly things", purging a wardrobe which took most of my life to fashion. Now, a year and a half later, I have no good job to replace the one I had, (the one with a good pay-rate, marvelous benefits pack, vaca, sick time, etc.).

6 months ago I found Susans, related to so many stories of so many people that I couldn't deny myself to myself any longer, three months after that I told my girl. And she told two friends, and so on, and so on. Not really, but she told some family and a couple friends, (some with my permission). OMG, it's alive!! But, it is less stressful where I'm at than where I was, except I may lose my girl, [totally another thread]
I hope one day to reach a point where I can be me.

Sometimes I wonder, am I still in denial? Was I ever?


Linda

He is probably just getting ready to play baseball.

I have no idea what's really going through that guy's head, but I'd be surprised if he was motivated by GID.

My amateur-shrink guess is that he's driven by the same demons (and body-image delusions) that cause girls to turn themselves into anorexic skeletons.

When I first saw it, I thought that can't real.  What would anyone do that?  But then again, why would anyone go thru SRS.

Janet

Doesn't look real to me, but I could be wrong. I am not sure how that guy is suppose to walk more less function in any other way. Looks photoshopped.
Myles

It's photoshopped, guys. It's not real.

As someone who works closely with the program for almost 10 years, I can tell that it's fake and I could replicate it. Not only that, but I study anatomy and the human body, and it's extremely unlikely that steroids would make the muscles look exactly like that. The proportions are terribly unrealistic.

Quote from: Monty on April 13, 2009, 01:05:18 PM
It's photoshopped, guys. It's not real.

As someone who works closely with the program for almost 10 years, I can tell that it's fake and I could replicate it. Not only that, but I study anatomy and the human body, and it's extremely unlikely that steroids would make the muscles look exactly like that. The proportions are terribly unrealistic.

Darn!  I was going to see if he wanted a date...

-Sandy(His name must be Ben Grimm!)

My first reaction was, "Oh my God, how gross!"
I don't get it...
That is so disgusting.
I feel like being sick.
How can anyone do that to their body.
That's disgusting!
Absolutely revolting.


So, let me get this right.  When people say these kind of things about Trans people, they are 'phobic', but when you say them about someone else, well, that's just an opinion.

Something about 'being the change we want in the world' come to mind.  That, and 'minds are like parachutes, they only work when there open."

When ever I see pictures of guys like him all I think is I bet that is a sock, in his pants   If you want to look like that its fine by me.

Jay

Remind's me of the guy who took an entire beaker full Jeckyle's Potion in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Like a few of the wiser posters have stated, I don't think this has to do with GID or TG issues. There's a plethora of other reasons why this may have taken place.

Funny, I don't find it disgusting at all-I find i more of an oddity. Amazing how the body can be pushed-especially with drugs! If he is using drugs, that is...

Again, you need to be the change you want to see in the world.  You have no right to expect of others, what you ain't about to do yourself.