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   Ivy :fire_trans: (ivy@cutie.city)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 03:18:57 JST Ivy :fire_trans:

   why do other trans people have such cool life stories

   I didn't try on my mom's clothes
   I didn't hang out with the girls at school
   I didn't play with makeup
   I didn't "act like a girl"
   I didn't hate my name
   I didn't cross dress
   I didn't let myself look inwards
   I didn't get told "we always suspected" when I came out

   I didn't know

   I just felt sad and wrong and I didn't know why.
   I was hollow and my emotions didn't make sense
   every relationship I tried went sour because I didn't feel anything

   if I didn't get that time during covid to really think, I might never have figured it out. I might have gone my entire life as a sad but ok most of the time, guy

   it always hurts when I read or hear some trans person's journey as they recount every instance where it was "clearly a sign" and they were just born in the wrong body and they were basically a girl anyway and...

   because of this, I just never related to these few trans people I saw in the public eye. I thought of it as this rare disorder that was for therapists to diagnose

   it took me a while to realize it wasn't about who I had been. It was about who I wanted to become

   • Chronic-migraine Ken :confusedlucy:​:rebeccaangry:​ repeated this.
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     Chronic-migraine Ken :confusedlucy:​:rebeccaangry:​ (levelup@corteximplant.com)'s status on Saturday, 24-Jun-2023 03:18:57 JST Chronic-migraine Ken :confusedlucy:​:rebeccaangry:​

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     @ivy

     Same here, to be honest the person diagnosing me was looking for allllll of those signs but they didn't really exist. I hung with the boys but I was still always the girl even if I saw myself as a tomboy.

     The only sign I had is that when I started to explore it, I finally felt happy for once. I felt really guilty about that happiness at first, but I felt so much joy, it was too big to deny that I was along the right lines.

     I just felt right for the first time.