So I guess I might as well make mine, and be one of the cool kids. I was lurking for about a month when I found this forum, didn't even consider joining until I realized I couldn't read any profiles or anything until I'd been actually been posting. (Bwuhh?)  I'm usually not one to post much in comms, but the ring of guys here seems pretty tight, which is cool, and I'm coming out as a man again (growl...snore! Can't I just do this once and have it over with? Why do I need to do this every time I move somewhere new?! Oh yeah, because people don't know crap.) so I pretty much need all of the information/support I can get, especially in a conservative state like this. If I had a dime for how many times I've said, 'Oh, I'm a dude' I'd be filthy rich by now. 

My name's Alex, I'm 20 years old, grew up in Hawai'i, currently living in Anchorage, Alaska. Moved here about six months ago. Figured out I was trans around 14, lived in almost full stealth between 15 and 18. (Stealth is very very taxing during the teen years, too, I learned. Blechh.)  Put gender on the backburner and swallowed figurative doo doo for almost two years, now I'm coming back out again.

The difference this time is I'm pretty much 'out' as trans, instead of living my life as a dude in stealth. This way I can seek support more openly and communicate my issues with other people instead of dreading 'getting clocked' constantly and living in fear. Life is easier this way. I just signed up with a therapist two weeks ago, hoping to get a letter for T ASAP, not sure how long it usually takes, but it's an important step towards medical transition, right? Anyhow, apart from that... Well, I guess I'm just your friendly neighborhood paperboy.

Welcome.

Man, at this rate we're going to give the MTF section a run for their money, jk. It's just nice to have more FTMs around here to bring up topics and different opinions.

Quote from: Tristan H. on November 10, 2009, 01:30:25 AM

Man, at this rate we're going to give the MTF section a run for their money, jk. It's just nice to have more FTMs around here to bring up topics and different opinions.

I wonder what caused the sudden surge of ftms joining, where are they all coming from? (I found this place by accident using google on my phone while sitting on the john. Were we all pooping and using the 'net at the same time due to some phenomena?) It's nice to have a forum where I get a warm welcome within a few minutes of saying 'hi'!

Quote from: Tristan H. on November 10, 2009, 01:30:25 AM
Welcome.

Man, at this rate we're going to give the MTF section a run for their money, jk. It's just nice to have more FTMs around here to bring up topics and different opinions.

I like it, there's far too much of a perception around  the general public that TS is simply a "choice" made by mentally disturbed males. The more FTM's around the more that perception gets shattered. 

Quote from: asfsd4214 on November 10, 2009, 02:09:38 AM
I like it, there's far too much of a perception around  the general public that TS is simply a "choice" made by mentally disturbed males. The more FTM's around the more that perception gets shattered. 

I agree. Strength in numbers.
Have as much with Susan's as I'm going to 

Hi Alex,

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Janet

Hi Alex! 

Welcome alex!

how's hawaii, and alaska?
I've always wanted to visit.

I hear its always sunny in alaska.

Quote from: ccc on November 19, 2009, 02:18:24 PM
Welcome alex!

how's hawaii, and alaska?
I've always wanted to visit.

I hear its always sunny in alaska.

Ha...you heard wrong. That have hours and hours and hours of darkness. I think they have a ridiculous amount of sunlight in winter...like only 4-6 hrs or something. I'll have to ask my dad...he's stationed up there right now..

It's both, dude. In the summertime, endless sunlight. In the wintertime, endless darkness. In the summer the sun never really fully goes down, it's light as day time until about midnight or one in the morning, and even at two or three in the morning it looks as if the sun hasn't quite finished going down yet. In the wintertime, it takes longer and longer for the sun to come up, and at it's worst, it's pitch dark outside by like 3PM. XD

Quote from: Cairus on November 19, 2009, 11:37:25 PM
It's both, dude. In the summertime, endless sunlight. In the wintertime, endless darkness. In the summer the sun never really fully goes down, it's light as day time until about midnight or one in the morning, and even at two or three in the morning it looks as if the sun hasn't quite finished going down yet. In the wintertime, it takes longer and longer for the sun to come up, and at it's worst, it's pitch dark outside by like 3PM. XD

Man that is crazy! Like when you go to sleep, its still bright like day out. And you have to have really thick shutters and curtains to block the light out, huh?

Quote from: ccc on November 20, 2009, 02:44:42 PM
Man that is crazy! Like when you go to sleep, its still bright like day out. And you have to have really thick shutters and curtains to block the light out, huh?

lol did you ever see the movie "The Proposal" ? It takes place in Alaska and the Bride to be has to deal with that very problem. They have these heavy curtains they pull shut. It's summertime in the movie and it looked like noon at 9pm. Hysterical.

Quote from: NightKoi on November 20, 2009, 02:51:58 PM
lol did you ever see the movie "The Proposal" ? It takes place in Alaska and the Bride to be has to deal with that very problem. They have these heavy curtains they pull shut. It's summertime in the movie and it looked like noon at 9pm. Hysterical.

Haha yeah I actually just saw it the other day! Its a great movie. Everyone was like why are they going to sleep when its day time what the heck lol. But I was like oh yeah its way up near the cap.

My mom lives up there, she actually has black bedsheets tacked over the bedroom windows in the summer so she can sleep. It still doesn't work completely, but better than nothing. I went there for a couple weeks in June and it was insane looking out at 3am and the sky just looking a little dusky.

You might suggest the aluminum foil trick.  Tape aluminum foil, reflective side out,  over the windows on the inside.  Reflexes the sun and heat out of the room and makes it very dark.  Do not splash cold water on the window or it will explode.



Janet

The aluminum foil trick is actually pretty common here! Also, wrapping paper from presents, carboard... XD  The apartment complex I live in has a rule that states no aluminum foil/wrapping paper, and my window doesn't have a dowel for curtains, need to measure the thing so I can pick up the right sized dowel... But in the height of summer when the sun was shooting into my room odd hours of the night, I got frustrated one day and thumb tacked a giant blanket over the whole thing. It's still there.