Hello AlwaysChanging2: As I have written in SO MANY previous replies to any number of Threads, here on PC, except for the fact that I'm married (my wife's accomplishment... not mine...) I'm pretty-much entirely solitary... by choice. I have no other family. And I have no friends or even acquaintances. I simply keep to myself. When I go out to walk the dog, I wear hats with large brims. I keep them pulled down low enough that I shield my eyes from those of others. There's much less likelihood that they'll speak to me that way.

A large part of the reason I have come to this is that I simply have never encountered anyone who, to my knowledge, shared my struggles... that tangled web of trangenderedness & mental illness that has turned my life into such a twisted mess. When I was younger, I wanted to stand out... to be noticed, to be involved with life & living. Now I simply want to pass through life unnoticed, unacknowledged. I like to imagine that, even now, no one even really knows I exist. When I am gone... I will simply vanish without a trace... & that's okay...