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I love sleeping, honk-shoo is so goated.
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What if my ribcage and shoulders are too big??? 😭😭😭
The girl has a bigger volume. More girl per girl. Strong. Healthy.
they arent sweetie, promise
I'm so happy and so scared. For the first time I feel understood and I feel like I understand myself but it's terrifying. I can't stop crying.
Relatable
Mood, same. Big ribs could equal big titty though and that’s a pretty solid trade off.
In seriousness, beauty is fluid these days and there are tall and wide cis women who are gorgeous. Mostly I’m realizing it’s about confidence and how you carry yourself (as well as styling but that’s a different convo). If you feel beautiful, it will shine through regardless of any physical attributes
It means you're pretty
They aren’t :)
This is what i thought too, and what i still think sometimes. Big ribcage/shoulders doesnt mean you cant be beautiful
part of that is in how we dress ourselves, but part of it is in a recognition of our beauty standards in the west being deeply fucked up. Theyre racist and misogynistic and all sorts of terrible. Ive met beautiful women with broad broad shoulders, some were femme some were butch some were neither. I know it sounds stupid but beauty really is in how we carry ourselves, how we move, and how we show up in the lives of those around us. Some of it is in baseline physical appearance, but a whole hell of a lot less than we are trained to believe.
And if youre super dysphoric about them, theres resectioning and collarbone surgery that can reduce their size
I really just wanted affirmation thank you. This week has been a lot. I can't stop crying reading some of these posts. It's so much to take in. How can I ever tell anyone? It's just so much.
Everything comes with time. It took me a very long time to tell anyone, and even longer to come out fully. You dont have to do it all at once, you can do it as you need and want to. I know its a lot. Its so much, especially at first. It shakes the pillars and sometimes feels like the roof will collapse on us. Its ok to be overwhelmed, and scared, and full of joy and fear and every single emotion under the sun.
I'm also really really happy in a way I've never felt before. And crying again. 😭😭
<3 im so glad youre feeling joy like that! It is so important to hold on to queer and trans joy, the joy of existing. Im happy youre here
I just didn't know for so long. I feel so blind. I don't know. How couldn't I have known sooner? I've never felt like a man but I didn't know I had options. I've been so disgusted and hated my masculinity for so long but I thought there was something wrong with me specifically. I thought I was a failure as a human.
Its ok, a lot of people didnt know. The world kept us from ourselves. I have felt like a failure of a human for a very long time, and still do in many ways (ive been lowkey crashing out in like half the trans megas since i joined bearsite lol). But life gets better, the pain doesnt go away but it becomes more understandable (at least, thats my experience. Theres so many trans experiences, mine is but one). And the joy, the JOY! It feels so good, and i want more trans joy in my life, we all deserve so much trans joy.
You're amazing. It's hard not to crash out, lol, I feel that. It's been a lot of emotions for me recently.
I dont crash out, i crash in lol (joking tone, but genuine, i dont let anyone see anything and then break down when no one is looking).
If they didn't want me to cry in the bathroom at work it wouldn't lock.
That's how I felt too. Part of it, I think for me, was how "normal" it was. Like yea, I'm a man, because that's how I was born. I didn't consider options. Society does not give us options, tell us the options are there. Tell us trans people are a thing or what that might feel like. Tips for identifying it in yourself. Nothing.
😭😭😭😭 I feel like I'm losing my mind. Like the world is crumbling and nothing makes sense.
I wish I was a girl so bad but I didn't know I could be. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
I’ve got good news
I'm so afraid I won't have support IRL. I don't want my life as it exists to end completely. I don't know how to make it work. I've devoted so much time and energy to neurotically being a man. Gamblers fallacy, you know?
It’s scary but you can do it if you want to :)
The nurse who delivered (the doctor wasn't available) said "its a girl!" when I was born and then they re-assigned me the dreaded M on the paperwork
I still didnt figure it out for like 27 years after that lol. Everyone takes their time.
Ok you’re here now though that’s what really matters