Living Full Time: The Big Step

questioning_life wrote:

Oy! Pass that thing this way. xD

Joker5120 wrote:

questioning_life wrote:

Oy! Pass that thing this way. xD

I did, the cyber way. I never mind sharing my dope with someone.

Please remember to stay on topic, this forum is about gender and trans issues.

lifelongthing wrote:Please remember to stay on topic, this forum is about gender and trans issues.

Apologies! I'm just used to the lawless wastes that masquerade as the ASPD forum, where topic deviation is king. xD

At any rate, yeah, I'm still in the market for suggestions and insight on my original and subsequent posts.

Joker5120 wrote:Really, I've been sort of playing with the idea that I might be afraid of losing a little bit of my ease of influence over people in my day to day life. I'm extremely socially adept and it's something I enjoy about my life immensely. So, that could be it.

Might that relate to them not knowing the real you? Could you have made a "strength" out of the fact that you weren't appearing as you really are? So you'd be giving up a psychological advantage by being open in this way.

That makes it harder to interact with certain social groups, makes it more difficult to get with the opposite (birth gender) sex and ultimately makes my life slightly less fun.

Until you learn how to influence people in new ways. And how to use your new appearance to your advantage. And so on. Those skills won't disappear just because you dress differently now.