Thankyou for sharing. It’s nice to learn about all our shared experiences.

OMG thankyou for sharing! That’s so funny to imagine from the POV of your coworkers.

I have been talking a lot about this in therapy recently. How all my previous hobbies were extremely dissociative. Video games being a major one, but really anything that let me forget I was an embodied human being.

Since cracking I’m really not feeling the urge to dissociate at all. I’m still waiting on hormones to start but I hope it continues honestly.

Oh hell yeah! I’ve been so looking forward to reading Berengaria’s “finally got my hormones” post.

Aw such a lovely photo!

I appreciate you saying it’s happened to lots of people, i thought i was just really dumb for not knowing how risky it is to leave it in too long. The packet did not warn me with sufficient enthusiasm!

thank you, this makes me feel better <3

Thanks for explaining your perspective. It sounds tough. <3.

The place I live is accepting but judgemental, if that makes sense.

Yeah i think so. Not inherently hateful, but somewhat conservative around how everybody ought to comport themselves? Meaning they’ll accept you for who you are, as long as nobody is too “extra” about it? If true, then that’s not great, but also not terrible. I wish for you that you could present exactly as you would like to and that people would mind their own fucking business about things that dont affect or concern them. But that doesn’t change your reality.

Maybe once in a while, if it’s something you want, you might find a chance to take a night off from being sensible, some time or place where it doesn’t impact anyone else, and you can dork out and enjoy it. I respect that you are always thinking about your kids feelings though. That’s being a good mom <3.

I’ll take anything i can get! It’s easy to look at your peers and think they’ve all got it together so well, but i know I’m comparing my private experience to others’ public one and that’s never a fair comparison.

Also I adore dorky early transition fashion, it’s always so cute to see people finding themselves!

Hey good luck with your game. Indie game dev is how I met the majority of my queer and trans friends, it’s been an incredibly safe and welcoming space for me. More queer game devs please!

Relatable

The biggest step is self-acceptance. Congratulations and I’m proud of you!

Congratulations girl!

Keep em guessing! Video game character creators are such useful gender playgrounds I think.

I know right!?!?!? <3

Yeah basically, as best i can with what I’ve got to work with! I’m still early in transition, im very much looking forward to getting closer and closer to the woman I’ve wanted to be my whole life.

That I don’t hate myself.

Irish people use the contraction when the “have” is possessive. “I’ve a new dress” is a perfectly usual thing to say in Ireland.