Hi, to all on this forum, I stumble across this forum and could believe that I had never found it before. I am hopeing to find others like myself here in Wisconsin. and any other place. I guess just looking for freindly faces and people that are not hypacritical and judgemental. I have tryed the transgender support groups but they all seem to be to sexually motivated. Understand I am not reffuring to all transexualls. Due to a drug known as progestin, I ahve spent my life simply trying to be normal in the eyes of a backwared society. as goofy as that seems. I recently came out of a relationship and am wondering if I should even bother to try again. Living in a small community seems everyone knows your business. As typical as people are it amazes me how they can take something and just twist it around and add to it just to have something to talk about. it really makes me wonder if those are the same type of people that would joke about a child with polio or c/p. Sorry just needed to vent my frustrations. Feel free to reply, Thanks and God Bless Ashley

Hi Ashley,

Welcome to Bodies Like Ours. We have a pretty, decent community here. Thanks for joining us...

Betsy

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Hi Betsy, Thanks for your welcome. I must apoligize for venting some of my frustrations out on here. I have read through allot of the threads , and it makes me happy to see that there are others that have joined in. For understanding purposes. I have searched the site to see if there is any threads for simply shareing your story and have only come across the one linked by you. I would like to read about others, I guess if only for help in understanding my own life. As I have grown up it seems that I have always struggled with the fact of not simply being just one or the other, I never really felt that I needed to be a girl or a boy that doesn't seem to matter it just more of being just one. And I have learned that trying to educate people is very hard, and as much as they say it doesn't matter to them there actions afterwared allways say differently. If anyone has some thoughts or would like to share excperiances I would be happy to listen. and I know, I can't spell or type very well ( laughing at myself) God Bless Ashley

Ashley, this is a good place for getting frustrations out. That's why it is here. Don't worry about offending...the only people who are likely to get offended are those we probably don't like knowing anyways.

On the stories section, it is so hard to share sometimes. I haven't even written my own for this site. When I speak publicly, I even find myself steering questions away from myself and into the bigger issues. I used to share it in great detail and really found myself getting affected by classic PTSD symptons; I would end up crashing really bad afterwards, and it wasn't healthy.

One of these days, I am going to post it for everyone to read; in the meantime, you can find the very thing I ever wrote for public consumption on the CAH websites out there (try www.cahourstories.net) I wrote it shortly after I made the connection of my own body's "oddities" and the lies I was subjected to growing up. It was really like one giant "lightbulb" turning on in my head and it truly changed my life. It was in an odd time of my life and had lots of time to figure things out.

I do think that sharing your story is ultimately quite healthy, but sometimes it takes a long time to overcome the shame and secrecy we were subjected to--as children, as teens, as young adults, and as mature adults.

Overcoming that and instilling a sense of community is really one of the most noble goals of Bodies.

I'm happy you are here to share it with us, and that everyone we hear from (here and off-board) is here to share the own stories, at their own pace and comfort level.

Betsy

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Welcome to bodies like ours
Hope you find your happiness.

Az1

Muhoe

The reason people have so much trouble with us is that they can't really pin us down:D
We rock their world by not fitting into neat little categories, and it makes them question what else they think they know for sure... but don't!
Keep stopping in. Someone from WI is bound to come along sooner or later.

I like your logic and it makes sence also, in the real world people hate things that aren't simply black or white.

Society's mirror doesn't work so kindly for us. So be sure to hold up your own and recognize all of the wonderful things you see.

hi ash and welcome ...beach

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