Has anyone made a comment about you that was totally weird or awkward origionally, but youve since realized is totally true and kinda funny thinking back on it?

Back in college, before I knew what trans* was, and was identifying as a lesbian, I was hanging out with my friend and her boyfriend.  He was jokingly hitting on me to try to annoy my friend.  She just laughed at him and said "Nice try, but she's a lesbian. not going to work."  He gets this stupid grin on his face and says "Really?  So you like, have a chick body with a guys brain? thats awesome!"  I just stared at im, trying to understand that logic, when my friend says, "No honey, thats not what lesbian means."

Even though it was super awkward at the time, I think its hilarious now.   Anyone else have similar stories?

Years ago I had a friend (who happened to be a lesbian but did not know about my "issues") say to me, "you ARE a dude" after another friend commented, "You act like such a dude".

My brother once said to me, "You're the biggest tomboy on the face of the planet." (I suppose he intended to mean by that phrasing that I was so tomboyish on a large scale that there was no way I was a girl.) At the time, I interpreted it as an insult from my sibling, but now that I think about it he was sorta right. XD

Quote from: Logan Bann on September 06, 2011, 09:42:21 PM
When I was little I would get in conversations with boys and they would stop halfway through with funny looks on their faces and say, 'You're just like one of the boys.  I keep forgetting you're not.'  This was before I knew I was trans, but I remember it feeling mighty good.

LOL, I can relate to this - when I was about eight or nine (and I guess it's significant that I remember this vividly, lol - it must've meant a lot to me), I was playing with my best friend (a boy), and another boy.  My friend had decided to instigate some sort of club or secret circle, and he said, 'Right, there are no girls allowed.'  Then he looked at me, and said, 'Apart from you.  Because you're a boy.'

I can't think of any particularly exciting instances, but my friends used to joke that I thought exactly like a guy long before I ever heard the word transgender.  Also, I was initiated into the boy's secret clubs in elementary school, and the girls didn't think I really belonged in theirs; I agreed. 

There was a teen get together at the library and picked up this girl I was really into and teasingly sarted to pack her off like I was 'kidnapping' her. Some Librarian ran up and pulled her out of my arms and yelled at me before she realized we were playing. Then she said to her, "Sorry, I thought that boy was messing with you." and everyone stared but didnt say anything. Really akward for a while.

When I was younger I was on a baseball team with my little sister.We were the only 'girls' but we alwasy talked like she was the only girl on our team and picked on her and stuff. Xp

first time I got to cut my hair short my mom really wasn't into it, she said
"I dont want you to look like a boy!" so I found a cartoon character with short hair (from dragonball or something) a tomboy girl and said, "I just wanted the same hair as her and it wouldnt be boyish."

then we got to the hair dresser and we waited for a long time untill my mom started to ask and he apoligysed said, "sorry were taking the girls first then the boys afterwards"
my mom got so angry saying "its a girl!!" and everyone where starring at me, asking if I really where a girl,
it where kinda akward.

One time when I was about six years old this slightly older kid was talking to me in the playground. I forget how it came up, but he was convinced I was a boy and kept insisting. Meanwhile I was just as insistently arguing that I wasn't. He wasn't messing with me, he ended up getting quite pissed off because he thought I was messing with him. Funny looking back... whoops, he was right. My bad.

My Sister-in-law, the one who hates me, once..no, twice made comments that were awkward. When I first came over to meet my wife, she commented that I seemed awfully feminine. And the other time was when my son, who was 5 at the time, was upset and I was trying to comfort him. My Brother-in-law told me to stop babying him he would be fine, but his wife said "Leave him alone.You know he is the mommy of the family."

One time when I was at a summer camp, this girl told me I looked like Kenny Rogers.  Still not sure what to make of that lol.

When I first got online, I used to go to chatrooms a lot.  There was this one dude I was talking to one night, and things were getting a bit...interesting...then he suddenly typed back accusing me of being a man, saying that he'd never heard a girl talk like that, and I kept insisting, no, I'm a chick.  He didn't believe me and logged off.

One day a couple of years ago, I was talking with this friend of mine at the time who's a guy.  We were talking about some car trouble I'd had and I mentioned about how I had considered getting some anti-seize for my tires, so it would be easier to get the lug nuts off if I had a flat.  And he just stopped and stared at me and told me he'd never heard a woman talk about anti-seize before.  Well, I guess he still hasn't, lol.

Several months ago when I was looking for a new place to live, I had called this guy that had an ad in the paper for a house.  He called me m'am a couple of times at the beginning of the conversation (and it was definitely m'am, not man) and I asked several questions about the place and then toward the end of the conversation he called me young man, then suddenly stopped talking and there was a long awkward pause.  I thought it was really cool, even though the sound of my voice wasn't quite passable (since I got called m'am at the beginning), something about my speech mannerisms did pass.

(Not really awkward, just kinda adorable)
I've got a friend that's a few years younger than me, used to always come to me for advice on "guy things" and such. We were having one of our huge rantfests and he said something along the lines of "I know you're a girl but you're more like a dad to me than my dad". That always made me so happy, even thinking back on it now.

There is a new kid at work. Fresh out of high school and he looked familiar. So I asked my Daughters if they knew him. He is shy, quiet and a loner, much like I was at about that age.  But my daughters knew him. So today I went over to him and chatted with him for a little bit. Here's how it started out....

Keaira: I know you. 

Kyle: you do?

Keaira: yes. High school graduation. You are friends with my daughters. 

Kyle: who are your daughters?

Keaira: tori and lacy

Kyle: your tori and lacy's mom?

Keaira:.....err...yea? * crap! I was not expecting that. ... Awkward...*

Kyle: Tori will flip out when she hears I work with you. 

Keaira: she knows already. How do you think I know you?

Kyle: oh! Good point.

Well it wasn't the most awkward before, but my dad would always joke around(when i was younger/before i realized i was ftm) when he was talking to me and be like "boy...I MEAN girl" just as a funny way to mess with me. but it's so funny now before I guess he knew what he was saying apparently XD

When I was in 8th grade, my little brother and I were walking down the hallway after school. A teacher walked by and said, "You boys have a nice day!" He and I kinda glanced at each-other smiling. That's before I really understood that I was a guy. I'm sure my little bro knew, though.

Also at that school, I went to the office one day because I had to see someone from social services (my mom and dad were going through a custody battle), and one of the faculty members yelled, "There's a boy here waiting for someone," or something. Back then I'd get embarrassed when I was called a boy, but only because I thought they'd find out I had a girl's body. xD

The first time I walked out of my room with short hair my roommate and her boyfriend commented that they thought I had hooked up with some guy until they realized it was me.  That was the first time anyone recognized me as male. 

It's also a running joke in the family that I am my dad and that my brother is our mother.  It's very true in personality and appearance.

I'm not sure if this counts, but it still makes me laugh.  My group of friends growing up consisted mostly of tomboys, and at one point in high school three girls went to go pick up another one from her house.  Her grandfather answered the door and called out that there were two boys and a girl there to see her.  They still debate about which one was the girl. 

When I was 11 or 12 I was at karate class dressed in sparring gear (padded helmet, etc) and the teacher referred to me as "him" a couple of times. It felt right at the time but I was so brainwashed into thinking I HAD to be a girl that I was embarrassed.

My grade 8 teacher called me 'Michael' as a nickname for the entire year. I loved it.

And then in high school my friend said (with *** standing for my girl name) "***, ***. I don't like that name. From now on I will call you Herbert." She was just picking a random weird name to be funny, but it was still a male name.

I've gotten "You sure you don't have a Y-chromosome?" from my dad on several occasions, usually after he'd reviewed my credit card charges at the hardware store or something like that.

At work, we have to wear aprons as our uniform, and everyone decorates them with these little teddy bear shaped fur pieces we give out to customers. I have like 15 of them on my apron, and covering my name.  So the other day, I was back behind the register to check the schedule, when this customer sees me and says "Wow, look at all the bears he has!"  I looked up and kinda smiled awkwardly, and then realized that the cashier that day was this bitchy obnoxious blabbermouth girl, and I'm not out at work really, so I kinda ran away before she caught on and said anything.

In my head it was like "Whoo hoo! i passed, oh crap, Anne, Run away!!"