stickygirl
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Hehe! He is cute Arlan, I'll give you that!
Here's question for you and for everyone - including you TG lurkers out there!
What was you earliest memory of your dysphoria ( I'll save you the Google, dysphoria = Am I a girl or a boy or something else, WTF? )
Here's the first one I can recall, which would be looking through my Mum's dress-making patterns to find one for me. I had a plan I could short-stitch the whole thing together as I didn't know how to use a sewing machine. The whole plan got shot down in flames by my Mum who asked with her 'slightly shocked voice' "You're not trying to make a dress are you?"
Jeez - you know, writing that brings back all the same emotions. Up to that point I hadn't occurred to me that it was gender thing ( I just wanted a damned dress ) but, at that moment I realised: Owch! Boys don't make dresses do they? / Mum doesn't sound too happy / Eek! So I did the emergency back-out by replying with a voice stung by false accusation "No!" I still remember how I felt both embarrassed I'd been found out but also how annoyed I wasn't going to have a dress. Grrr! I suppose I was about 10 or 11yrs.
So! That's my truth or dare story: there are numerous others but I sure as hell ain't gonna put them down here!!! Who's next?
Here's question for you and for everyone - including you TG lurkers out there!
What was you earliest memory of your dysphoria ( I'll save you the Google, dysphoria = Am I a girl or a boy or something else, WTF? )
Here's the first one I can recall, which would be looking through my Mum's dress-making patterns to find one for me. I had a plan I could short-stitch the whole thing together as I didn't know how to use a sewing machine. The whole plan got shot down in flames by my Mum who asked with her 'slightly shocked voice' "You're not trying to make a dress are you?"
Jeez - you know, writing that brings back all the same emotions. Up to that point I hadn't occurred to me that it was gender thing ( I just wanted a damned dress ) but, at that moment I realised: Owch! Boys don't make dresses do they? / Mum doesn't sound too happy / Eek! So I did the emergency back-out by replying with a voice stung by false accusation "No!" I still remember how I felt both embarrassed I'd been found out but also how annoyed I wasn't going to have a dress. Grrr! I suppose I was about 10 or 11yrs.
So! That's my truth or dare story: there are numerous others but I sure as hell ain't gonna put them down here!!! Who's next?
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