Quote from: N.Chaos on May 13, 2011, 03:52:27 AM
Whoever said it earlier was absolutely right, sleeping around will not make your orientation make sense, if anything it'll screw your perception you up even more
I learned this the hard way. It's all very well us saying "How on Earth can you keep doing this" until we're the ones in the middle of it. When your self-esteem's rock bottom, the word no doesn't exist in your vocabulary. You think it's all you deserve, you know no better so you settle for the attention you do get. Also, about the upbringing - sheltered or not, the wrong kind of peer pressure can trump everything and pull you into nasty situations, as we're seeing here.
Kyril and others gave some good advice, but partly as someone who's come out the other end, I have this to add:
1) I don't know how things work in the States, but I've heard shelters/youth help/whatever for homeless kids is out there. Look into that ASAP. If your mum would disown you for aborting an unwanted pregnancy, what's gonna happen with your being trans? Even if she doesn't kick you out, the atmosphere would be so toxic you wouldn't be able to breathe - sounds like it's getting that way already :S
2) Get yourself some counselling. Not the therapy we all need to go through transition, just general (preferably youth) counselling, so you can talk all this over with someone qualified to help. Get referred if that's what it takes. The trans stuff will come out no doubt, but you have bigger problems that need dealing with first.
3) Find a new circle of friends. People telling you to screw guys for the hell of it aren't friends, they're irresponsible arseholes.
4) Look into assertiveness classes, buy some books, whatever it takes so you can start working on your confidence.
You're probably finding this out already, but forcing yourself to have sex when you're clearly not enjoying it is self-rape. You hear so often about victims of rape, how they feel afterwards - it's the same when you do it to yourself. I speak from experience here - stop doing this before you cause yourself any more damage.
As to your last question: You don't experience signs of pregnancy until about a month later - and it's only about then you can do a reliable test. Depending how regular you are, you may notice missed periods first. I was never regular, so the first thing I noticed was nausea. I couldn't drink coffee, and I'm usually an avid coffee drinker. Even the smell of it made me sick.
And yes, people put on a lovely face to the parents; partly (I'm pretty sure) so that they won't believe you when you start explaining how they treat you. Mind you, if during said telling the floodgates open, that's a pretty good sign to the parents that you aren't making this up.