Quote from: Arch on July 24, 2009, 02:37:02 AM
Your mother sounds like a wonderfully insightful person. Either that, or you're just very obvious... 
I'm glad she's being supportive. If I came out to my mother, she would probably cut me off for life--if I hadn't cut her off first, that is. (At least my brother is being pretty cool about it. It must be kind of weird to have a long-lost "sister" suddenly pop up after twenty years and come out as a gay transman.)
By the way, you could use either James or Braedon as a middle name. Or even a last name.
She is a lot more insightful nowadays. My family has been through a lot over the past few decades and only these past few years have we all started being able to live life and be happy. I think that is why my family is very "whatever makes you happy" because we've all lived through much worse than the little things that a lot of people get bent out of shape over.
I wish everyone could have a mom like mine, and I'm really sorry that so many of you have come up against such conflict in trying to come out to your family. It's really hard, because I want to just enjoy my good fortune and the positive upswing my life has been taking these past few years, but I care about you guys and I feel badly for what many of you have had to go through.
I hope that sharing my successes doesn't bother you guys. Let me know if you want me to just shut up.
Quote from: CodyJess on July 24, 2009, 12:21:02 PM
Oh man, seriously. Now if only they had 'XS' in the men's section, I wouldn't have cashiers thinking I have a son at home! 
See, the awesome thing for me is that I'm average size for a guy, so for once I'm buying mediums in everything instead of always feeling like a fat cow because of trying to fit into what's average for girls (which makes me an XL in most brands, especially since I hate clingy stuff... ugh). I'm not fat, perse. I'm just "thickset". I have a little flab here and there, but overall I'm just "stocky", so it's been really rough on the ol' self esteem being told that I'm "plus-sized" for so many years. It's nice now to see myself as a medium, which feels much more appropriate for my body type.
