Being trans from a young age means you've had a long, difficult, and confusing relationship with human perception.
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Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 06:38:01 JST Nowhere Girl -
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Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 06:38:00 JST Nowhere Girl When I was little, I looked like a girl and people treated me like one. Only my mom ever argued about it.
Later, I could pass for a girl and was often still treated like one, but I got beat if I asserted I actually was.
Post-puberty, nobody took me seriously as a woman, but they still often subconsciously treated me as one.
With a few minor adjustments, it became more like 50/50, but the failure mode was extremely bad.
Post-HRT, everybody went back to seeing and treating me like a woman.
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Nowhere Girl (gwynnion@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jun-2024 06:38:00 JST Nowhere Girl And yeah, puberty fucked me up physically and mentally, and HRT partially unfucked me, thankfully, but from my perspective, nothing much about me actually changed, especially in terms of behavior.
There would be times I wasn't even trying and would pass anyway -- and sometimes the opposite. The world was a minefield of constantly shifting perceptions and expectations. "This boy is flirting with me. But does he know that?"
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