What do you miss from your "former" life?

[Jeannette]

Is there anything you miss from your "former" life?  I sometimes miss the freedom I used to have.  I'd go to a hardware store, for instance, and the clerks didn't treat me like a retarded person.  I could walk the streets at night without any fears of being assaulted or raped.  That's what I miss.  What about you?

[Wendy]

Hi Jeannette,

I miss my former energy levels.

W

[Melissa]

I miss being able to sing using my full vocal range without worrying about getting read.   I also miss my parents.

[Yvonne]

I miss taking only ten minutes to get ready in the mornings.  Also my physical strength.

[Kate]

Pockets.

~Kate~

[cindianna_jones]

Is there anything you miss from your "former" life?  I sometimes miss the freedom I used to have.  I'd go to a hardware store, for instance, and the clerks didn't treat me like a retarded person.  I could walk the streets at night without any fears of being assaulted or raped.  That's what I miss.  What about you?

I went to the hardware store recently, and one of the helpful hardware folks asked me to help him with a customer question!  They know me pretty well since I go there a lot as part of my business. It was a curious turn of events.

I miss living close to my family. They live so far away that I only see them once every year or two.  And I miss singing.  I sang professionally for several years. Singing is just so part of ME and yet it can not now escape to be shared with the world.

But everything else... my career, my church, my marraige, my previous friends, and everything else.... good bye! I don't miss them at all.

Cindi

[Lisbeth]

Pockets.

My favorite skirt has pockets.

[Laura Elizabeth Jones]

Pockets.

~Kate~

That is why there are purses, silly.

[Butterfly]

I miss my higher salary!

[tinkerbell]

What do you miss from your "former" life?

Nothing, Nada, Rien, Nichts, Niets, ничто, ingenting,  沒什麼東西, 何も, لا شيء, τίποτα, 아무것, niente





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[Melissa]

Pockets.

~Kate~

That is why there are purses, silly.

Yeah, but that's one of those things Kate has yet to "try".   I couldn't wait to get a purse.  It's so much more convenient.

[Kimberly]

Not having to down a number of pills each day.

[zombiesarepeaceful]

I don't miss anything, being treated as male feels right after all those years pre-transition.

Matt

[TheBattler]

Everything

I was a Happy Male with engergy to do what I like when I like like ridding hard. Now I am inbetween the genders - wondering where I am going, Said that I just can not go out and ride like before, Having to take pills for depression, and Stuck where I am for now. I wish all of this would just go away so I can go back to where I was before - I have always said I never hated being Male.

(end of rant)

Alice
(sad today  )

[Floritine]

Being a bitch at work and and the pay,but at least my friends out side of work like me better now as they say I'm more easier to get along with and after all work is work.

Floritine

[Christo]

I don't miss anything, being treated as male feels right

dont miss nothin' to.

[Aurora]

I miss how easy it was to date women romantically.  Now it takes so much time and effort, and there is just not that many to choose from.
I also despise how married women ask me to be the other person in there marriage. Yeah right.  I never had that issue when I was male.
I miss not having to put on makeup everyday.  Most days I love puttng it on.

That's about all.  I shouldn't really complain.  I love being myself and not what other's expect me to be.

[Terra]

I miss the days of not having to fear for my job for any reason more than my ability to do it. I also miss being able to swim, as being in transition would raise a few eyebrows at the pool.

I miss my family support, even if now I discover just how much blood matters in my family. Finally I miss being able to ask a girl out and not have to worry about whe to tell her i'm a woman. I ironically I get hit on now by woman more than I did ever before. Guess i'm to androginous. 

[Lisbeth]

I was a Happy Male with engergy to do what I like when I like like ridding hard. Now I am inbetween the genders - wondering where I am going, Said that I just can not go out and ride like before, Having to take pills for depression, and Stuck where I am for now. I wish all of this would just go away so I can go back to where I was before - I have always said I never hated being Male.

Bike riding I assume you mean.  Yes, it is harder to build up the stamina for biking.  But I'll be damned if I'll let that stop me.  I live on my bike in the summer, and I'm not going to let a little thing like estrogen instead of testosterone beat me.  Take some advice from me -- exercise is a good way to fight depression.  Go get on your bike... now.

I also miss being able to swim, as being in transition would raise a few eyebrows at the pool.

That's why I only go to pools that have Family Changing Rooms.

[Dennis]

There's nothing I miss. My life has improved in all areas.

Dennis