There's a very well known and accepted inverse correlation between testosterone, intelligence and the ability to get along with others. |
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... see what I'm sayin'? |
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You have my sympathy. |
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Yes - I should remember that... |
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idk if this has been asked but will you have to go though the menstrual cycle |
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i like your name change |
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Have you had a chance to download a copy of the video of my night out? Please let me know so I can remove it and hide the evidence! |
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What triggered this decision? I'm sure it was on your mind for a while but what was it specifically that made you go "Alright, I'm actually going to do this." |
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Last year, living on my own, I became depressed. Not just sort of sad for a while; actual loss-of-function depression. That set off a cascade of self-evaluation. Eventually, I realized that at home, I could express myself a lot better, but at college, I was horribly lonely and massively uncomfortable in nearly all social interactions. I never had friends in high school, but I didn't need them; I had my family. |
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Hey Maria, I completely respect you for doing this. I sort of had the feeling we didn't like each other back in the old days with the spam thread. All good? |
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So will you have transvesticles? |
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"For a long time it gave me nightmares, having to witness an injustice like that. It was a constant reminder of how unfair this world can be, I can still hear them taunting him. 'Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!'... How come they just couldn't give him some cereal?"
Have you had a chance yet to read any of Siddhārtha Gautama's teachings? |
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You could teach a drag class |
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"For a long time it gave me nightmares, having to witness an injustice like that. It was a constant reminder of how unfair this world can be, I can still hear them taunting him. 'Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!'... How come they just couldn't give him some cereal?"
Yes. I don't agree with them. It assumes all problems can be fixed with mental focus, etc. Some can't. I can't just will myself into being happy or being male. What's more, to do so would be to deny who I am. Following the eightfold path to such an extreme would be tantamount to raping my mind. |
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That would be so freaking awkward to take that. |
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"For a long time it gave me nightmares, having to witness an injustice like that. It was a constant reminder of how unfair this world can be, I can still hear them taunting him. 'Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids!'... How come they just couldn't give him some cereal?"
No, not by mental focus. Awareness is a more accurate term. |
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Sorry, it just sounds a lot like willful delusion. I've tried eliminating suffering, but along with that goes elimination of every other emotion. Sadness offers a baseline to gauge feeling. It's not good to wallow in it, but neither is it good to cut it out completely. If anything, I'd rather amplify the way I experience it to make life all that much richer. I find Aristotle's golden mean to be more applicable in day-to-day life. Being transgender is one of those things that tends to break most models or paths of happiness. How do you gauge the mean of that? How do you clear yourself of the "ignorance" of that? It's here to stay, no matter what. It can't be "cured" with any amount of meditation or attention or deep thought, no more than you can change the color of your eyes by willing them to be different. It's just an integral part of who I am. I wouldn't trade it for the world. |
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