Hello my name is jennifer and I am IS I am wanting to chat with others and find out the best location to live in becuse the location of where I am at has nothing as far as support.
thank you for your time and energy,
best wishes to all

Hi Jennifer - welcome aboard!

Can't say I've heard of anyplace with a visible high concentration of IS folks, but based on the Board members, I'd say anywhere in northern NJ would be good!

More seriously, anywhere with a decent Internet connection could be a good place to live, since most of the support seems to come online.

What do you do, and where are you now?

Glenn

Hi Jennifer,

Welcome to our group! I'm with Glenn on this one, can't think of anywhere the seems to have more IS folks than any other place.

Actually, I really don't know of many places that have IS support groups in person, most everything seems to be online. Does anyone know of in person IS support groups? I don't mean TS groups where one or two IS people show, but I mean a group for us. I've been searching for ANYTHING like this in all of southern CA, and haven't been successful yet.

Anyway, welcome again Jennifer, I hope you feel comfortable enough to jump right in and make yourself at home.

God bless,
CR

Welcome Jennifer! Hi Glenn!

I've been to several face-to-face support group meetings. The AIS support group has meetings about every six months in the US and about every six months in the UK. They're open to "related" conditions like mine (xy/xo).

I find that the small group meetings are much better though. There are several other people in the D.C. area that I get together with every month or so. If you want something like that YOU are the one that needs to make it happen. YOU can help someone else who isn't coping with it all as well as you are.

If y'all are in the Baltimore-D.C. area let me know and we'll get some folks together. Maybe stroll the waterfront, drink a beer, see the aquarium. Or maybe, just for old times sake, drop by Hopkins and say hi.

Warm regards,
Jane

Dear glen, Jane, and CR,
I am having to relocate in OCT. thank you for the NJ and DC area been thinking about moving NE and would like some more info on apts.
Work I do Research and martial science instructor I am certified in 9 systems and have fought professonally Muay thai and NHB.
feel free to e-mail me blackcat@kravmaga.com. Thank you for your support and time and energy.
I would like to get together after I relocate to the NE area.
best to all and again thank yoiu

what happend to all the first time posters?? so many people have left BLO! why?

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Julanne

Well, I saw one post tonight by "someone" who apparently wants to pin it all on me, but if you look at many of these first posts, you'll see that many of these people made their first posts & disappeared long before I had even heard of this board.

Well, I guess it's the lot of some to blame others, and it falls to people like me to be the scapegoats.

Andi :(

Hi Jennifer,

Welcome to Bodies. I don't really belong here, because I am not "officially" IS, i.e. have not been proclaimed to be so by the "establishment".

I don't really belong to any support groups specifically for this purpose. I have found that to find support I have to work at it, cultivate the contacts that I have. I belong to PFLag, and that meets once a month. Also to a gender organization. That also meets once a month. The turnout for both of those is extremely small. Finding "someone or someones like me" is not exactly easy because I feel society does not want our peculiarities out in public. Not that I am particularly sneaky. We are also rare. And when we meet each other, well, there are such things as "personalities", you know.

Friendships and associations have to be cultivated. I don't know about you, but I am easily "dissed", often without the other's knowing about it. Even though that is "my" problem, it does put a damper on my getting close to anyone, or being much of a friend. Still, I have managed to make some friends and keep them, because I have told them about myself and my feelings--id est, made myself vulnerable. Eeeeek!!

I'm only here because I grew up scared of being different and knowing that I was and couldn't always put my finger on it and didn't dare talk about it. I've gotten some answers here, and I hope you will too.

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Hello blackcat that is totally awesome that you do Muay Thai! Is that Muay Thai kickboxing? I did that for like 2 months and got in shape fast! Plus its fun to learnn! Too bad I don't have time to do that now... Anyway I just wanted to give you my late Welcome!


Monica