They don't even look like monsters in a still photo 
Oh
The Girl is, very
I N D E P E N D E N T minded, and why 'ave an order in for another
BOY instead!
(ps: moved to "Blogs", vowed to better keep "threads" from derailing . . )I did not have any choice or level of control . .
OMG concur wholeheartedly Elisabeth! Have yet to read your "massive wall" but for some it was "inevitable" yet for others? Not so much! Some felt they had a choice, others NOT! "
Lady luck" favored me in so many other ways I wouldn't characterize it as "envy" but, rather,
joy at seeing each of us having found their own unique way regardless!
"
The past" IS important isn't
final outcomes what it's really all about?
Suppose my "survival" depended on getting shifted as well? I switched schools many times between 7th grade and finishing high school. Between one divorced parent and another. From state to state. From dating as many guys as girls . . and, in always being the "new kid",
chose to settle down and abide what father desired of me most which was a "
career & family" of my own?
On hindsight my dad had his own experience(s) with "transsexualism" before I ever even came along . .
It was 1977 for me and I was 22.
You and I are 'bout the same age. I turned 22 in Feb of '78 and while my second "
ah-ha moment", upon seeing "
everybodytransitioning", was in 2005 I was also soon giving up any hope of transitioning around the same time you were having your SRS.
I remember all TOO clearly and older sister "P", upon calling me just yesterday, added yet another piece to my personal puzzle as she said "Georgette", a close personal
formally male co-worker friend of my fathers in early 60's, was
beautiful, absolutely stunning and she'd (my sister) try to find a pic she once had of her as well
How to elaborate? (without digressing into a
word jumble unable to understand?)
My father was hired Aug 18th, 1956 (while mom was preg with me)
I was hired Aug 18th, 1978 (and don't think "same date" was pure co-incidence)
Everybody at "the job" knew my father all too well and, with expectations of "me" being high, certainly didn't want to bring any
embarrassment down upon him. Having always flown, being exposed to, "airline life" since day one I achieved my goal of being a flight attendant but it was not in the style, or sex, of what I otherwise always wanted to "be" . .
. . the eternal and inflammatory question . . if you’ve always known you should have been a girl/boy whatever, how could you not be that and what took you so long?
No not inflammatory at all one quick, obvious answer for me being: given similar circumstances like supportive family, relative wealth and good education opportunities I didn't exhibit the same "predisposition", certain
CONVICTION you seem to 'ave possessed back then when to me nothing was "obvious", just remained in my own 'lil shell . . .
lol And something akin to what Antisthenes so glowingly alluded to . . simply a differing "temperament/personality"? Of course there's always more to it but I never did let "the dysphoria", or anything else untoward for that matter, get the best of me and always considered transition "a desirable option", a matter of manageable degree and, utimately, "a choice" which still do to this day?
Have otherwise found "
fulfillment" in so many other similarly mundane ways . . WHO KNOWS? Perhaps not TS afterall? Maybe just a lifetime TV? The bottom line it's never has been a "
major crisis point" for me and, having yet another life-time to live
, "
which gender" doesn't seem to matter much these days. Like in the movie "Orlando", it all
a fantasy allegory anyway?
In my 60s . . more selective . . haven’t been stuck . . 20 years . . unlimited unexpected adventures and possibilities potentially . . looking for them or for them to find me. I may be old but I ain’t dead yet . .
Exactly!Rationalizations over . .
now back to our regularly scheduled programming!
(never was good at writing bio's, perhaps because still don't know "
the ending"?)
