I, uh, haven't come in here a lot in the past. Mostly because it felt like it wasn't my place and I didn't want to interject myself into conversations between LGBTQ folks and their issues.
But, I guess it is my place now.
After really doing some thinking about my pretty long history with questioning my identity (a pretty brutal cycle of questioning it, then getting embarassed/disgusted and shoving away all attempts to explore it on repeat for like 15 years) and some really good help, advice and friendship from some wonderful people on here I can say:
Hi, I'm a girl and I love girls. I came out to my partner, as well as some of my close friends, who have been very supportive and understanding, and feel better about myself than I have in a very, very long time. I am guessing it is probably a big surprise to a lot of folks, and it isn't something I am ready to run onto the rooftops and scream about and come out to, like, my job, but after spending so long never feeling good about myself I don't want to have to pretend to be something I'm not where is I feel most comfortable. And for me that is in my safe places, like here.
It is weird because it simultaneously feels like the end of a long journey for finally breaking the cycle and figuring out who I am when I know it is really the start of a new one that is going to be difficult and scary but also beautiful and the only one I could have ever ended up going on.
I, uh, haven't come in here a lot in the past. Mostly because it felt like it wasn't my place and I didn't want to interject myself into conversations between LGBTQ folks and their issues.
But, I guess it is my place now.
After really doing some thinking about my pretty long history with questioning my identity (a pretty brutal cycle of questioning it, then getting embarassed/disgusted and shoving away all attempts to explore it on repeat for like 15 years) and some really good help, advice and friendship from some wonderful people on here I can say:
Hi, I'm a girl and I love girls. I came out to my partner, as well as some of my close friends, who have been very supportive and understanding, and feel better about myself than I have in a very, very long time. I am guessing it is probably a big surprise to a lot of folks, and it isn't something I am ready to run onto the rooftops and scream about and come out to, like, my job, but after spending so long never feeling good about myself I don't want to have to pretend to be something I'm not where is I feel most comfortable. And for me that is in my safe places, like here.
It is weird because it simultaneously feels like the end of a long journey for finally breaking the cycle and figuring out who I am when I know it is really the start of a new one that is going to be difficult and scary but also beautiful and the only one I could have ever ended up going on.
So, yeah, hi. I'm Zoe.
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Congrats!
Hi Zoe ^_^
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I, uh, haven't come in here a lot in the past. Mostly because it felt like it wasn't my place and I didn't want to interject myself into conversations between LGBTQ folks and their issues.
But, I guess it is my place now.
After really doing some thinking about my pretty long history with questioning my identity (a pretty brutal cycle of questioning it, then getting embarassed/disgusted and shoving away all attempts to explore it on repeat for like 15 years) and some really good help, advice and friendship from some wonderful people on here I can say:
Hi, I'm a girl and I love girls. I came out to my partner, as well as some of my close friends, who have been very supportive and understanding, and feel better about myself than I have in a very, very long time. I am guessing it is probably a big surprise to a lot of folks, and it isn't something I am ready to run onto the rooftops and scream about and come out to, like, my job, but after spending so long never feeling good about myself I don't want to have to pretend to be something I'm not where is I feel most comfortable. And for me that is in my safe places, like here.
It is weird because it simultaneously feels like the end of a long journey for finally breaking the cycle and figuring out who I am when I know it is really the start of a new one that is going to be difficult and scary but also beautiful and the only one I could have ever ended up going on.
I, uh, haven't come in here a lot in the past. Mostly because it felt like it wasn't my place and I didn't want to interject myself into conversations between LGBTQ folks and their issues.
But, I guess it is my place now.
After really doing some thinking about my pretty long history with questioning my identity (a pretty brutal cycle of questioning it, then getting embarassed/disgusted and shoving away all attempts to explore it on repeat for like 15 years) and some really good help, advice and friendship from some wonderful people on here I can say:
Hi, I'm a girl and I love girls. I came out to my partner, as well as some of my close friends, who have been very supportive and understanding, and feel better about myself than I have in a very, very long time. I am guessing it is probably a big surprise to a lot of folks, and it isn't something I am ready to run onto the rooftops and scream about and come out to, like, my job, but after spending so long never feeling good about myself I don't want to have to pretend to be something I'm not where is I feel most comfortable. And for me that is in my safe places, like here.
It is weird because it simultaneously feels like the end of a long journey for finally breaking the cycle and figuring out who I am when I know it is really the start of a new one that is going to be difficult and scary but also beautiful and the only one I could have ever ended up going on.
So, yeah, hi. I'm Zoe.
I can't find a high five gif bombastic enough for this,
so just put your hand up and we'll delayed psychic ghost high five.
... (a pretty brutal cycle of questioning it, then getting embarassed/disgusted and shoving away all attempts to explore it on repeat for like 15 years)...
I, uh, haven't come in here a lot in the past. Mostly because it felt like it wasn't my place and I didn't want to interject myself into conversations between LGBTQ folks and their issues.
But, I guess it is my place now.
After really doing some thinking about my pretty long history with questioning my identity (a pretty brutal cycle of questioning it, then getting embarassed/disgusted and shoving away all attempts to explore it on repeat for like 15 years) and some really good help, advice and friendship from some wonderful people on here I can say:
Hi, I'm a girl and I love girls. I came out to my partner, as well as some of my close friends, who have been very supportive and understanding, and feel better about myself than I have in a very, very long time. I am guessing it is probably a big surprise to a lot of folks, and it isn't something I am ready to run onto the rooftops and scream about and come out to, like, my job, but after spending so long never feeling good about myself I don't want to have to pretend to be something I'm not where is I feel most comfortable. And for me that is in my safe places, like here.
It is weird because it simultaneously feels like the end of a long journey for finally breaking the cycle and figuring out who I am when I know it is really the start of a new one that is going to be difficult and scary but also beautiful and the only one I could have ever ended up going on.
Got an appointment to hopefully start HRT next Monday!
Thank god there is a good women's health clinic that is super trans friendly in my city, I was worried Oklahoma was going to make that part a pain in the ass
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Got an appointment to hopefully start HRT next Monday!
Thank god there is a good women's health clinic that is super trans friendly in my city, I was worried Oklahoma was going to make that part a pain in the ass
I am simultaneously very happy for you and intensely jealous due to decades of gatekeeping
As y'all will see soon I WILL BE FREE OF THESE JOKES
That is... optimistic. Keep that thought alight, buddy!
AHA its done now
To celebrate my Zoeining I got @quibbed on Twitter to make me some new art (also she is so incredibly nice and SO FAST) for stuff since I would rather not be tied to a dinosaur sporting that particular name
It is perfect and has made me so happy
BlankZoe on
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I have been, like, right on the threshold of Figuring it Out for a very long time and just kept turning away right before I did so now that I am embracing all of me it has been super fun and come very easy and natural because I've spent 15 years prepping, kinda.
But now I am back at work and getting deadnamed every 5 seconds and having to use it and I know that this is part of the experience too and it is gonna be hard and painful and scary at times but woof
Fair enough! Sorry, not trying to dismiss your experience or anythint remotely like that. I apologize if I say something stupid.
Not at all!
I took no offense!
You're doing fine.
Seidkona on
Mostly just huntin' monsters.
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I got deadnamed by both my parents last week. My mum's only recently become consistent with it anyway but it's been months since my dad used my old name so that was a weird thing to hear come out of nowhere.
i have never actually identified with any names except this one so ???
the handle is closer to me than my legal name for sure.
i considered changing my name at some point, but no usual human names particularly strike me.
there aren't really any names that have hard non-binary connotations anyway, are there?
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There are names where the gender is not immediately apparent (like Max or Sam), but I don't know of any that are specifically NB
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I, uh, haven't come in here a lot in the past. Mostly because it felt like it wasn't my place and I didn't want to interject myself into conversations between LGBTQ folks and their issues.
But, I guess it is my place now.
After really doing some thinking about my pretty long history with questioning my identity (a pretty brutal cycle of questioning it, then getting embarassed/disgusted and shoving away all attempts to explore it on repeat for like 15 years) and some really good help, advice and friendship from some wonderful people on here I can say:
Hi, I'm a girl and I love girls. I came out to my partner, as well as some of my close friends, who have been very supportive and understanding, and feel better about myself than I have in a very, very long time. I am guessing it is probably a big surprise to a lot of folks, and it isn't something I am ready to run onto the rooftops and scream about and come out to, like, my job, but after spending so long never feeling good about myself I don't want to have to pretend to be something I'm not where is I feel most comfortable. And for me that is in my safe places, like here.
It is weird because it simultaneously feels like the end of a long journey for finally breaking the cycle and figuring out who I am when I know it is really the start of a new one that is going to be difficult and scary but also beautiful and the only one I could have ever ended up going on.
So, yeah, hi. I'm Zoe.
Congrats!
Hi Zoe ^_^
Aaaaaah, so proud of you, Zoe!!
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I can't find a high five gif bombastic enough for this,
so just put your hand up and we'll delayed psychic ghost high five.
merry merry queen of the bush is she
laugh, kookabunga laugh, kookabunga
gay your life will be
Wait, you’ve never heard the Kookaburra song?
For some reason brain is classifying it as a Metal Gear thing but that doesn't seem right
the kookaburra song is an australian folk/nursery song about the bird the kookaburra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kookaburra_(song)
Also, Yay Zoe!
big mood
also, zoe is a Good Name.
Felt sad, so painted my nails.
I do my hands this way for a weekend here and there. My toes stay like that tho
Congratulations!
Yay!
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
something something birds of a feather
That is... optimistic. Keep that thought alight, buddy!
Thank god there is a good women's health clinic that is super trans friendly in my city, I was worried Oklahoma was going to make that part a pain in the ass
I am simultaneously very happy for you and intensely jealous due to decades of gatekeeping
To celebrate my Zoeining I got @quibbed on Twitter to make me some new art (also she is so incredibly nice and SO FAST) for stuff since I would rather not be tied to a dinosaur sporting that particular name
It is perfect and has made me so happy
https://www.paypal.me/hobnailtaylor
When I came out It was more of a controlled chaos sort of crash landing into the ground that is Gender!
Speaking of that is has been a year now since the egg cracked.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
But now I am back at work and getting deadnamed every 5 seconds and having to use it and I know that this is part of the experience too and it is gonna be hard and painful and scary at times but woof
It'll get better, I know
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
Not at all!
I took no offense!
You're doing fine.
XBL:Phenyhelm - 3DS:Phenyhelm
the handle is closer to me than my legal name for sure.
i considered changing my name at some point, but no usual human names particularly strike me.
there aren't really any names that have hard non-binary connotations anyway, are there?