http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/feeling-normal.htm Talking about Body Integrity Identity Disorder - Just another disability! Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/feeling-normal.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18447 Chloe Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:23:34 +0000 http://transabled.org/?p=2653#comment-18447 @Tora. Thank you for that insight. I was going to comment in response. However, you stimulated so much introspection that I've been writing another post instead. @Tora. Thank you for that insight. I was going to comment in response. However, you stimulated so much introspection that I’ve been writing another post instead.

]]> http://transabled.org/thoughts/other-thoughts/chloes-thoughts/feeling-normal.htm/comment-page-1#comment-18437 Tora Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:06:23 +0000 http://transabled.org/?p=2653#comment-18437 the part about pictures of you at 18 reminded me of something i did last night. you guys don't know this since i haven't logged in in awhile, but i recently broke up with lexi and i'm now going out with rena (neon). i haven't seen her in a week besides through a webcam because of a family vacation (i get to see her today though, yay!) and i was sitting on my bed before i went to sleep thinking about her when it suddenly occurred to me that i couldn't remember what she had looked like as a guy! (i first knew her as mckean, a guy, because she hadn't come out to her parents yet and so she couldn't present as female at school.) i got out of bed and went over to my yearbook and looked up her name. i was greeted by a picture of a young man with shoulder-length wavy brown hair. it was sticking up everywhere, you could tell that he obviously didn't care what it looked like. he was slouching, looking through his glasses at the cameraman as though to say "if you take another picture of me i will strangle you." then i thought of rena, the usually bright and cheerful girl i now know. her hair is well taken care of, curly with the front part dyed pink. it's a lot longer, too. she has contacts now, wears tight-fitting female clothes, and has her webcam on enough that she refers to herself as a "camwhore". (she's not really a camwhore though. ^^) it's really amazing what changes when you are allowed to be yourself, don't you think? the part about pictures of you at 18 reminded me of something i did last night. you guys don’t know this since i haven’t logged in in awhile, but i recently broke up with lexi and i’m now going out with rena (neon). i haven’t seen her in a week besides through a webcam because of a family vacation (i get to see her today though, yay!) and i was sitting on my bed before i went to sleep thinking about her when it suddenly occurred to me that i couldn’t remember what she had looked like as a guy! (i first knew her as mckean, a guy, because she hadn’t come out to her parents yet and so she couldn’t present as female at school.) i got out of bed and went over to my yearbook and looked up her name. i was greeted by a picture of a young man with shoulder-length wavy brown hair. it was sticking up everywhere, you could tell that he obviously didn’t care what it looked like. he was slouching, looking through his glasses at the cameraman as though to say “if you take another picture of me i will strangle you.”
then i thought of rena, the usually bright and cheerful girl i now know. her hair is well taken care of, curly with the front part dyed pink. it’s a lot longer, too. she has contacts now, wears tight-fitting female clothes, and has her webcam on enough that she refers to herself as a “camwhore”. (she’s not really a camwhore though. ^^)
it’s really amazing what changes when you are allowed to be yourself, don’t you think?

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