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Old Sep 30, 2014, 01:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Lonelyheart22 View Post
As a non-binary person who is biologically female or afab, however you wish to call it ,and identifies as a heterosexual woman but who also feels more masculine than feminine in most other areas, one thing that always annoys me is when cis people(my mom for ex does it a lot) tell me things like :

"why don't you just let your hair grow a bit, style it a tad more feminine, maybe wear some jewellery or a piece of clothing that would make you look more feminine? Everyone makes compromises, why would it be so hard to just temper that masculine side so men would maybe like you, as you so desire?"

Very painful to hear although I know they mean well and sincerely can't understand the problem. It makes me feel like what they actually mean, without intending it that way, is that in order to be attractive/liked/accepted/loved, I need to hide a huge part of my identity and put myself through a mental ordeal because my identity, the very way that I am is making me undesirable for no reason.
I was just talking to some people at my school's lgbt resource center about how no one but my sister knows i'm transgender in my family because if they knew, they would disown me and my dad would also tell his friends to never speak to me or my fiancé again... it's a terrible feeling to have to hide who i really am whenever i'm with them...
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