Sorry about the self confidence thing. You can't buy that in a store or get a surgeon to affix some to you unfortunately.
This all takes serious time and effort as I'm sure you're getting quite familiar with these days. One thing I wish I could tell my pre-transition self that I couldn't have seen coming is how much of this process is internal. 90% of people in my life (sans family, friends, and coworkers) only see me when I go out as this one -thing-, this one entity that I am now. It takes a lot of work both on the outside (obv, to pass well) and on the inside (to live a mentally balanced life coping with this too) to get here. ...and I can't lie, it feels really amazing now. Everything finally feels like it fits into place, like my life and body and my mind and my soul are all kinda running on the same fuel now.
Or another cheesy analogy that is appropriate:
...is that for 35 years I mentally felt like I was trying to squeeze the wrong shaped blocks into the recesses, and after transitioning, all the pieces slid right on in and it's been an extremely satisfying ride. My Gender Dysphoria was cured, but I'm still a tranny... still a relative anomaly in society... so ultimately you trade one set of problems for another, but imo the new set of problems is very much the lesser of the two evils.
Many people make fun of us and while I think it's foolhardy to call us brave, or strong or all these convenient little buzzwords that people who like to be allies to trannies call us (look at all the positivity Caitlyn Jenner got around the time she was hot shit)... y'know... I'm not strong or brave but on the other side of that coin, the truth is that normal people have no. fucking. idea. how difficult a full-blown transition can be on a person.
I'm glad you're here Porkchop and I'm glad you seem to be another rational tranny amidst the FoH ranks. It'd be lulzy as shit if a Jerle or SJW snowflake tranny popped up in here but I wouldn't wish that kind of rabble on anyone to be honest LoL. Now if only we could get Morrow to come back here in good form.
This all takes serious time and effort as I'm sure you're getting quite familiar with these days. One thing I wish I could tell my pre-transition self that I couldn't have seen coming is how much of this process is internal. 90% of people in my life (sans family, friends, and coworkers) only see me when I go out as this one -thing-, this one entity that I am now. It takes a lot of work both on the outside (obv, to pass well) and on the inside (to live a mentally balanced life coping with this too) to get here. ...and I can't lie, it feels really amazing now. Everything finally feels like it fits into place, like my life and body and my mind and my soul are all kinda running on the same fuel now.
Or another cheesy analogy that is appropriate:
...is that for 35 years I mentally felt like I was trying to squeeze the wrong shaped blocks into the recesses, and after transitioning, all the pieces slid right on in and it's been an extremely satisfying ride. My Gender Dysphoria was cured, but I'm still a tranny... still a relative anomaly in society... so ultimately you trade one set of problems for another, but imo the new set of problems is very much the lesser of the two evils.
Many people make fun of us and while I think it's foolhardy to call us brave, or strong or all these convenient little buzzwords that people who like to be allies to trannies call us (look at all the positivity Caitlyn Jenner got around the time she was hot shit)... y'know... I'm not strong or brave but on the other side of that coin, the truth is that normal people have no. fucking. idea. how difficult a full-blown transition can be on a person.
I'm glad you're here Porkchop and I'm glad you seem to be another rational tranny amidst the FoH ranks. It'd be lulzy as shit if a Jerle or SJW snowflake tranny popped up in here but I wouldn't wish that kind of rabble on anyone to be honest LoL. Now if only we could get Morrow to come back here in good form.