Hahah I have a bumper sticker that says this

I haven’t found anything that helps, but no one has ever been a dick to me when I’ve said “sorry, I didn’t hear you, I have an auditory processing thing”

Nah, it’s okay to be angry. It’s not okay to express that anger as hostility.

Heck yeah, I love it!

I felt so bad for accidentally posting AI

Thanks for letting me know! I’m almost always using Voyager on mobile, and Piefed support is still experimental, I think. At least, I’m not sure where I’d find that in the app when editing a post. Hopefully it’ll be included in a future release!

No problem, I just added an edit note in the post

WOOHOOO

I can’t wait to get mine!

Oh, that’s a good point. I hadn’t even thought of that. Now I know to look out for it though, thanks!

Awh man ☹️ I had no clue, that sucks

Oh god, I said that exact sentence so many times 😂 “I guess I am one so I guess I’ll just keep dealing with it”

I want to go back and shake egg-me by the shoulders and tell her that you can just… be a girl!

Haha sorry about that! It took me staring so many obvious signs in the face before I got it. That doesn’t necessarily mean you’re trans or not, but just know that there are no wrong answers either way, and this community is certainly accepting of folks who are questioning 😊

My therapist must have been dying on the inside for the months of “ugh, I hate being a guy, I don’t want anyone to look at me and lump me in with the rest of the men” before I finally figured it out lol

I’ve been using it to talk to my brother for the past few weeks, and it’s super fun! I really enjoy imagining a bird flying hundreds of miles to deliver my very important meme

Don’t threaten me with a good time! I’d be driving a BYD right now if I could

Damn, that’s quite the thought spiral. Like, I can see how the train of thought gets there eventually, but holy cow. There are guys out here who give negative fucks and openly treat women horribly - leering, rude comments, groping, etc. Someone going “hey, your dress looks nice!” or “hey, if you’re ever interested in coffee or a drink, here’s my number” and not being weird about it is a completely different thing.

How often is a misguided approach really ruining men’s lives though? I’m kinda struggling to imagine an approach to giving a compliment or asking someone out that can be polite, respectful, and well-intended, but still go so off the rails as to wind up on social media and ruin a guy’s life

Absolutely not. No desire to see those people again. I didn’t enjoy high school, and I don’t like the person I was back then either. Everyone is better off going their separate ways.

All you need is an LLC. And those are like $50 to register? After that, how honest you are is up to you. The headlines are full of big companies and flashy names, but there are a lot of people out here working for themselves or with a couple of people at a tiny company.

Oh yep. Big time. I was raised in a very Catholic household in a quite conservative community. Religion aside, I think my parents were overall pretty good, despite being quite strict, other than their insistence on having surveillance over all Internet access at all times. Knowing your parents are constantly watching fucks with your head.

But what I’m still working through in therapy are all the myriad lessons I internalized through my conservative religious upbringing. There wasn’t any one particular thing, but that was 100% not the right environment for a trans girl who didn’t know it yet to grow up in. I barely knew trans people existed until I went to college, and I was pretty homophobic in high school. It wasn’t until I was out of grad school, living and working in another state, that I had the distance to finally do the self-reflection and therapy work to realize that I’m trans and pan and accept that about myself.

I had a moment after my egg cracked of “oh no, I’m the kind of person everyone I grew up around hates”. Jury is still out on how my family will react when I come out to them. I haven’t said anything because I’m afraid of how they’ll respond, given that I’m the only one who is no longer Catholic.

Anyway, I could ramble on. Short answer: yeah, my upbringing fucked me up real good, and I don’t know if I’ll ever be done working through it.

Thanks! I’m really excited for it. I’m going to have it done by an artist I’ve wanted to tattoo me for a long time