My mom seems to be my greatest supporter now. Odd turn of events, because she was the last to believe it and was raised with the most conservative parents of all I've come out to. But yeah, somehow it happened and that's great.

She seems like she really wants to understand it, and even occasionally uses proper (IMO) pronouns. It's in a sort of half-joking way, but really nice nonetheless since I know it makes her a bit uncomfortable to defy years of habit of calling me "she" and "mija" and all that.

My father hasn't been told all the details yet, and he doesn't quite understand and he knows it. Haven't really insisted on pronouns yet because it would make everyone uncomfortable (except me.) SO is rather conservative, but he doesn't act disapproving so I'm happy. I just try to sort of "shelter" him from it by not really talking about it and hiding my general angst and depression about it all.

I feel a bit bad about being so stressed and depressed about this when I could have real problems. Real, physically painful problems or problems surviving. I'm really sheltered, have a nice life. I bet if I had other problems I wouldn't focus on this so much. Maybe this is why my grades are falling in comparison to other years, must work on that.

So yeah, another blog-style post because I don't have a blog. I'd like to know when tgspot is usable.

Eh, it happens. I think sometimes we just live in the moment and there's no problem venting even when it turns out we're proven wrong about things.

I'm glad you're feeling some better now. My Mom is 100% supportive of me- something I didn't expect at all. She said it will take time to get used to using he and other male pronouns, but I understand this. It takes awhile to break a habit that's been used for 35 years.

She also evidently knew a fair amount about ->-bleeped-<- from watching shows and reading articles. This was waaay before I told her so she was able to somewhat understand. You're right though, things could always be worse. I hope I didn't jinx myself saying that.

Quote from: Lachlann on March 29, 2010, 03:54:47 AM
Eh, it happens. I think sometimes we just live in the moment and there's no problem venting even when it turns out we're proven wrong about things.

Yep.

Quote from: Radar on March 30, 2010, 08:20:49 AM
I'm glad you're feeling some better now. My Mom is 100% supportive of me- something I didn't expect at all. She said it will take time to get used to using he and other male pronouns, but I understand this. It takes awhile to break a habit that's been used for 35 years.

She also evidently knew a fair amount about ->-bleeped-<- from watching shows and reading articles. This was waaay before I told her so she was able to somewhat understand. You're right though, things could always be worse. I hope I didn't jinx myself saying that.

Yeah, my mom kept pointing it out that I'm lucky she's a TV addict or she wouldn't have given me a chance. Seems like I'm on the right track now, too so life's good.