I have thought of this and had a dream last night about this. How much different would your life of been if you had been born a girl? I think i would of had a way easier life school wise, Since i dressed like a girl anyways. Would of been on the cheerleading team life would of been great. I would of done ballet because my mom would of let me.

I would definitely have felt more comfortable growing up. I would have stuck around doing gymnastics longer, and I'm pretty sure I would have tried out for cheerleading. Though I still would have been one of the band nerds.

There would certainly be differences. But I would still be me.

Ya i thought about looking the same as i do now. Gymanstics seems fun all my cousins do it. But they live in denmark so that is excepted there.

I absolutely loved gymnastics! It's kind of ironic, since now I have almost no flexibility.

I am a huge dreamer. So i think of what could of been. I would of graduated highschool. sry if this seems like a silly question.

Quote from: Natalie <3 on November 15, 2011, 06:10:20 PM
I have thought of this and had a dream last night about this. How much different would your life of been if you had been born a girl? I think i would of had a way easier life school wise, Since i dressed like a girl anyways. Would of been on the cheerleading team life would of been great. I would of done ballet because my mom would of let me.

  My life definitely would have turned out alot better. I wouldn't have quit high school and wouldn't have gotten mixed up with drugs just to "fit in" etc.

   Yeah i know i would have been in dancing tap and ballet like my sister, growing up my grandmother pushed it on her even though she didn't wanna be in dancing. I loved to watch them dance and wanted to sign up but my sister said i'd probably get beat up like the other boy who dances so i decided not to lol. 

I think my life would have been incredible. I would have never been suicidal either. I dont think i would be envous of girls either. Through out most of school i wanted to do so many things that would have probably made me seem "gay" such as gymnastics and ballet as well. I would get really jealous of girls just being girls and not even thinking twice about it.

My life would be vastly different from the mess it is right now. The only reason it is what it is now is because I was trying very hard to just "fit in". As a result I felt incredibly uncomfortable and ended up very lonely with no friends or hobbies to speak of.

I know that inside, I'm a really outgoing and social person, but I just can't do that right now without being extremely awkward. I never really did get the whole "guy behavior" thing down that well. I also never did get to try a lot of the things that I would've wanted to, especially acting and working with kids. I don't like my voice and kids think I'm creepy ... so yeah.

Why pine over the past... when all we can change is our future?

Part of me wants to echo this

Quote from: JennX on November 15, 2011, 07:45:48 PM
Why pine over the past... when all we can change is our future?

but it's actually interesting to consider how, by comparing lives as they'd be, the fact that girls and boys really aren't raised the same.  A lot of developmental psychologists genuinely believe this is the case; I think we prove them wrong, in a lot of ways.

I'll probably be back in a bit to flesh out my beliefs on the matter, but I'll tag this for now and let y'all think about that.

I would have been a lot happier, but I wouldn't be the same person at all.

How many of my interests and beliefs were shaped by my being trans? It is such a core part of me that I cannot imagine how I would be without it, as either sex.

So many things would be different that a guess really isn't possible. But it's almost guaranteed my life would have been better. I was bullied physically every single day. Parents and teachers alike expected me to be a doormat and I got punished whenever I wasn't. Of course the bullies never got in trouble. But hitting/punching/kicking a girl probably would have had consequences. That's not to say I was thinking along those lines.

But even if I didn't have a crappy childhood I'm pretty sure it'd still be better. It's so deep within me that I'm not so sure even getting the surgery would be enough to satisfy.

Its nice to think about isnt it. but i wouldnt  change a thing in my life. If i wasnt abused and kicked around and went through everything i did i wouldnt  be here talking with all you great people now. =)

i probably would've had more friends, i would've had less anxiety, i would've had more self esteem, i would've been bleeding all over everything each month.

ya periods i wonder what thats like lol...

I'd love to be able to get pregnant.

Quote from: Natalie <3 on November 15, 2011, 10:53:47 PM
ya periods i wonder what thats like lol...

  I think we lucked out on that one. The one good thing about being trans! 

yes i wanna get pregnant trust me when i say i am trying lol (jk)
But adoption is great too, ive always wanted a little asian girl, I wanna name my little girl Aurora.

I probably would have been a stuck up bitch. lol. Also I probably would of got pregnant at 15 years of age. Sad but true, just because of the area I lived in at the time. I also truly think my opinion on GLBT's would have been different.

But I always wondered. It probably would of been a lot better. 

Hahaha, am I the only one here who is supremely grateful that she won't ever have periods or get pregnant?  I mean, I'm seeing this as a pretty sweet deal, yo.