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Within a few months of our wedding, I wore a pair of my new wife's pink bikini panties to work one day. At the time the anxiety outweighed the enjoyment by a wide margin and I never wore a pair of...

The extent of my dressing in my teens was finding my mom's or sister's bra hanging to dry in the bathroom. Maybe twice or three times total I used put on the bra to have something feminine to aim my...

except for the fact that, the better I feel about myself and my own aesthetic, the more ostracized I feel from anyone I would want to be or remain close to.

Oddly, there's nothing to reconcile for me. Dressing is virtually all emotional for me with very little sexual effect. It's definitely a more peaceful state than it would be if my body reacted every...

I have never been traditionally masculine. I bluffed my way to some degree and ended up distancing myself from people because it was easier to maintain a certain standing as a 'real man'. My wife...

I get what you are saying and I totally agree. But, since there's nothing about me that wants to present as a woman, but everything about me that feels a need to claim an aesthetic that has been...

I have definitely been the one to evolve more since we married 50 years ago. I was never particularly masculine in the way that masculinity is typically defined. Totally straight, but...

My daughter would be the one to deal with my things if something were to happen to me. My wife is handicapped and would not be able to purge my things alone. I'm quite sure my daughter knows that her...

I started dressing later in life and there was some, but little sexual arousal from dressing. Various issues make intimacy very hit and miss in my relationship and I'm really not sure what effect...

I wear a sterling silver anklet regularly, even to church, all in male mode. I cannot sit comfortably for long without crossing my legs and the anklet is clearly visible to anyone nearby when I do...

Monogamous straight male. Not sexually interested in men at all and only sexually attracted to the woman with whom I'm totally committed and invested. Women, in general, get my attention and I...

Accepting for the most part in private. Sometimes it's more reluctant tolerance, but she doesn't express it as such. It's unspoken. I used to try and be more intentional at appeasing her but I've...

My father was most influential of my idea of what I'd be as a man, but he was not traditionally masculine. I'd never call him feminine and I'm sure he'd be horrified to have known that his oldest son...

When I would try panties on my own, in the few months before I told my wife, my body responded virtually every time i put them on. Once she bought me a selection of panties and i began wearing them...

I always felt generic and often invisible as a regular dude. Once I'd seen myself in various femme items and outfits, i didn't feel generic or invisible. I'm still a dude, and present as a dude, but...

Since I'm a MIAD, I want to add another thought that other comments have brought to mind.

What I see is that our reactions to someone like the OP described is, to a great degree, just the fact...

I took a while getting out of bed this morning (10 extra minutes or so) because my mind couldn't land on what I wanted to wear this morning. I finally just got up and went through a couple of items...

I love that analogy.

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My thoughts on the subject are intuitive and not the least bit comprehensive.

Dysphoria is defined as a profound sense of unhappiness, uneasiness or discontent. It can...

I started therapy over some traumatic events in my life and dealt with those for over a year before adding crossdressing as more than a mention during sessions. After we'd felt we'd gone as far as we...

I'm been retired for several years now and I dress regularly at home. For a long time i collected clothes that looked cute on the rack and they would just sit in my closet because I didn't want to...

I had a very good therapist for almost three years before she decided that she needed to go online only. She referred me to another therapist who shares the office suite with her. I'd interacted with...

Part of Carl Jung's theory of personality is that the things people do that make us react strongly is part of our "shadow". It's the part of ourselves that we want to distance ourselves from. If one...

If I ever get out, I'd be like the guy you saw. I understand your reaction but in the few MIAD's I've seen in the wild have not had that reaction for myself. I'm always curious about the person who...

I've spent the last week on projects in my garage in the Texas heat. I've been en femme almost exclusively in cool casual clothes. I spent the first day moving stuff to and from our private driveway...

That's the one thing I'd love to hear. The look you're describing is my everyday look. My wife has told me that I'm beautiful or cute in both femme and drab mode. She has complimented items I've...