How did I not realise sooner?! #trans #vtuber #transgender

How is it that the worlds, others, the people around us always know about it first?! Be it trans, gay or any other form of LGBTQ+ D: somehow the others always know

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#trans #mtf #transfemme #transition

[bunno]

i probably realized at like 13, but i spent the following 8 years denying it

[ErikaSilverhart]

Unsupportive parents would still say "but there were no signs"

[ryttyr]

The same reason as why something you've lost always is in the last place you're looking in: Once you find it you stop looking for it, so of course it's in the last place you looked.

[larawaterson]

I costplayed as harlequins with my sister before my egg was cracked, and it still took me 3 years to realise it 🫠

[Rey_Pixels]

I should've realized something was “off” when I had to ask a guy, “What the heck is 'the nod'??” And he stared at me like i'd just asked what a cloud was.

[haxune]

My entire lifestyle and events was just hint after hint. I figured I just like dresses and skirts! So comfy and spinny~

And then at 24 (last year) my boss asked me "so what do you identify as anyway?" and that alone shattered my egg.

[headphonics]

My entire life I was always told that I wasn't a guy for various reasons. Only took 25+ years to realize that it wasn't said (entirely) out of malice. Also most of the dreams I still remember are ones where I could change my body at certain locations. Oddly enough I always ended up as a girl/woman in those dreams

[raixira]

I was the first to realize. But after i came out, a few of my close friends were like "OOOHHHH, okay yeah, that makes sense" 😂

[iana]

I know all too well what it's like to have a long journey to being one's true self. The sense of relief when you get there is something I can't really put into words!

[TheCubifyer]

I think a big reason I didn't realize sooner that I'm trans was because when both me and my brother were much younger, he would call me a girl as an insult (y'know usual 8yr old behavior) so in my mind being a girl was seen as a bad thing. This also led to me not wanting to play as female characters in games for a while, though there were games where I had no choice and eventually got comfortable with it; also thinking back, I do think I felt euphoria when I had to play with female characters, I just didn't know at that time what it was.

Also my brother did relatively recently apologize for his slight teasing/bullying form that time and it was so sweet. He's the best! :3

[octoburst]

Heres a thought I had at like- 10 maybe? Maybe a bit older or younger- I was very young: "I wish I was a girl... but I guess I can't be!" I'm just now realizing, I think I did know- I was just in denial.

[nikkicoyotie]

SOmetimes it can be your unconscious mind trying to protect you. I attended an evangelical private highschool. Brain burried everything from be cecuase it wouldnt' have been safe. Sadly that left me in a state where it took another 7 years after graducating for me to start puzzlign it out

[boltdoublet]

My dumbass accidentally introduced myself to people as my sister's sister before I found out :|

[dereknight]

“There were NO SIGNS”
-every freaking egg that walked the earth after coming out.

[dynias]

im still at "is this really what i want?" while buying girl clothes like crazy for some time already

[rinkuraku]

I knew I was trans before I even knew being trans was a thing. But bullying at school, abuse at home, and the general negative portrayal of trans people when I finally learned I wasn't the only one pushed me hard into denial.

[ArtemisWasHere]

I was happy and content with being boy…

Then I played Celeste

That game has too much power

[sadielynchhawkins]

I got called ma'am when I had a full beard . . . more than once. That and several times on the phone. Always the last to know

[newgate-zerohour]

Funny thing is, I used to be the only boy invited to my friends' girls only parties during elementary. There are some funny stories about that, but it's even funnier to think that years later I'd find out I was also a girl inside.

I used to have long hair, and strangers would always referr to me as a girl, told my parents you have beautiful daughters, etc. until we had it cut. I really miss it now, and it's growing back so slowly it feels like it might be years until it's even half the length it was.

[The_Quacken_]

literally all my friends knew AND NO ONE TOLD ME