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What was something you learned too late in life? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

People just don't care about you that much, if you go into the street wearing nail polish as a a male presenting person no one will care if you don't act weird about it. Same thing for shaving your legs.

Family might care though, what helped me was understanding that I spend a few days per year with my family maximum, but I spend that whole time with myself. So who cares what they think be yourself.

This helped me start transitioning at 19