I'm 36 and although I can't 100% prove it without asking (and I try NOT to talk to my mother- if that's what you want to call her), I'm 99.999999~% sure that she smoked during her pregnancies. I've always known her to smoke like a chimney (even when she's folding the clean laundry), so it totally wouldn't surprise me if she smoked when I was in utero.
"Oh f*ckkk!! Chick's a dude!" - from textsfromlastnight
me: I wonder what it'd be like to play golf en femme.
wifey: It's hotter and sweatier.
62. Came out when I was 41. In the 1940s, everybody smoked. Click "Members List" in the menu bar at the top of your page and you can see a lot of ages displayed.
Story of my coming out:
http://www.bliss-fire.com/ComingOut.htm
More likely you were dressed in red and white too much growing up just like me.. Maybe if I was born in black and gold country instead of Detriot things would be different?Originally Posted by Tina Dixon
52, my mother was hoping for a girl so I'm just trying to make her wish come true
A real girl never tells her ageok late 40's
I'll be 60 next month,I do know my mother smoke and drank when she was preggers with me,but I recently found out she had rehumatic fever when she was a child and was bed ridden for over 2 years from it.
Drink up me heartys,yo ho!
Kate
I am 41.
living the dream
17 with forty years experience and my sisters mother, I don't claim her, smoked and drank and jumped off the porch when my sister was heading toward the road so I was way premature at the time.
Envied all the great little girl dresses my sister got and really had to be sneaky to try them on.
I'm 48. Well, okay, 49 next week. Kim's right about the polls. They were always fun if everyone followed the rules set down in the poll, but asking this bunch to behave maturely is like asking a dog not to eat. So I guess they had to go. Still.....too bad.
And Mom smoked, but she has since quit.
Any money found in the laundry is MINE!
"This is no social crisis....this is me having fun!"
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OK way out in left field with this and the reason I was wondering (and most of you won't know if this happened or not). During the late 40's-middle 60's it was not unusual for an MD to put a pregnant mother on "something" to make sure she didn't lose the baby. In some cases this was an estrogenic compound or similar hormone.
Like I said it is far out in left field (and I see Batty chomping at the bit to get to this) but being exposed to hormones in utero, and seeming like there is a disproportionate number of us in our "middle ages" I was trying to see if there may be a link? I am sure there is no scientific proof as far as dressing for this but males exposed to DES while in utero have a higher rate of prostate and genital problems. Since our sexual identity is likely formed during this time the excess estrogen (or progesterone in some cases) may have led to our hobby.
Of course if this is true, then we should see a decrease in CD's and TS's born in the 70's on.
See there is a method to my madness.
Now having explained that please continue posting general ages to see if there may be credibility to this
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“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.” - Fred Rogers,
Almost 58.
Keely
One of the Reds
Hey, I miss the polls too! I'm 59.
Charlie
I am still in shock, lol.
Still cannot believe Lisa is 41, she looks fantastic.
Anyway , I am Deborah and 42, the name is a bit of a clue, lol
LOL.57 and I think it was alien abductions!! Yeah!! That's it.. Bunch of Estonians snuck over and took my mom when she was pregnant... Made her drink Vodka.... Told her Russian jokes... Messed me up something fierse!! I still shudder when Sean Connery says Vilnias in Hunt for Reed October!!
Im 44. All of a sudden I feel old.
Daphne
I think TXKimberly hit it for me. I denied that I was a crossdresser until I finally had it. Since coming to grips with being a crossdresser, I have felt like we are going to AA meetings. Hi all, I'm Michelle and I'm a crossdresser.
BTW, I'm 49
I know what you are talking about. My mom was given a drug to prevent her from going into labor prematurely. I have no idea what the drug was, but she took it.OK way out in left field with this and the reason I was wondering (and most of you won't know if this happened or not). During the late 40's-middle 60's it was not unusual for an MD to put a pregnant mother on "something" to make sure she didn't lose the baby. In some cases this was an estrogenic compound or similar hormone.
Like I said it is far out in left field (and I see Batty chomping at the bit to get to this) but being exposed to hormones in utero, and seeming like there is a disproportionate number of us in our "middle ages" I was trying to see if there may be a link? I am sure there is no scientific proof as far as dressing for this but males exposed to DES while in utero have a higher rate of prostate and genital problems. Since our sexual identity is likely formed during this time the excess estrogen (or progesterone in some cases) may have led to our hobby.
Of course if this is true, then we should see a decrease in CD's and TS's born in the 70's on.
See there is a method to my madness.
Now having explained that please continue posting general ages to see if there may be credibility to this
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Michelle
I was having a real hard time in my early 40's and wore a pair of my wife's panties,why-idon't know.All i do know is that i fell in love with them and have never stopped wearing them.Mid life crisis-maybe,did it help-absolutely!
I'd like to think that if I was a 60 year old world war three veteran or something like that, none of this would be a big deal anymore. When you are older, successful and comfortable with who you are and what you've done in life it probably doesn't matter as much as it used to. Even if you are an alcoholic bum, at least you've probably seen everything and still don't care anymore.
As for me, I'm a 22 year old frat boy with a lot to lose. I like to handle any problems in life by myself but my recent struggles with my cding have driven me insane enough to need a place like this. I'm really glad there are young people here because it seems to me that everywhere you look, the most open cders are overwhelmingly older.
For years I hoped I was just a CDer but now I realize I am transgender and that's alright.
In my forties!
Forty
Will ask my mom tomorrow for the answer, her memory is amazingly intact.
The obvious reason(at least to me) why so many are present here, were the immense difficulties of coming up through the "dark ages" with little or no credible info or support, severely delaying coming to terms until life circumstances allowed the means and freedom to do so.
On the other end of it, why there are so few 60's and older here, some don't need the support... it's more of a social thing, and those long gone don't want to remember the hard times... rather do their thing out in the real world, CDing or not.
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I started crossdressing at 50!
Lorileah, you have raised several good points.OK way out in left field with this and the reason I was wondering (and most of you won't know if this happened or not). During the late 40's-middle 60's it was not unusual for an MD to put a pregnant mother on "something" to make sure she didn't lose the baby. In some cases this was an estrogenic compound or similar hormone.
Like I said it is far out in left field (and I see Batty chomping at the bit to get to this) but being exposed to hormones in utero, and seeming like there is a disproportionate number of us in our "middle ages" I was trying to see if there may be a link? I am sure there is no scientific proof as far as dressing for this but males exposed to DES while in utero have a higher rate of prostate and genital problems. Since our sexual identity is likely formed during this time the excess estrogen (or progesterone in some cases) may have led to our hobby.
Of course if this is true, then we should see a decrease in CD's and TS's born in the 70's on.
See there is a method to my madness.
Now having explained that please continue posting general ages to see if there may be credibility to this
First of all, DES was apparently an anti-miscarriage drug given to women ...hmmm... right around the time I was born. Supposedly it has been demonstrated in some study or another to increase the prevalence of TS, or so I've heard. I have not heard of it being mentioned in the context of CD'ing but heck, we're one big happy family, right???
As for the age thing, I think there's two things going on. First of all, you have the mid-life thingy happening and this can manifest itself whether one identifies as TS, CD or somewhere in between. Certainly the replies here which are predominantly "older" as in some 30's, more 40's, seemingly more 50's, etc. Another thought I have on this subject is based on reading some of the laments of the younger set who wonder why there is so much obsession about specific items of clothing (which I'll keep unmentioned in this thread to avoid the flame which would surely follow).
But here's my opinion about why this is so. These are the children of the internet, something which those of us in our...(early) 40's like myself never had at our disposal during our formative years. Consequently, they haven't had to live into their middle years coping with or repressing a secret affinity for (insert name of clothing worth obsessing over here) or whatever. They are using the resource to their benefit to find their way and even acceptance in the real world with little need for what these message boards have to offer, for better or for worse.
Or so goes my opinion.
Like a corpse deep in the earth I'm so alone, restless thoughts torment my soul, as fears they lay confirmed, but my life has always been this way - Virginia Astley, "Some Small Hope" (1986)
Sunlight falls, my wings open wide. There's a beauty here I cannot deny - David Sylvian, "Orpheus" (1987)
I'm 33 yrs old.
Hmmm. That's interesting Lorileah as I seem to remember reading something about that a long time ago. Might have been the case with my mom, but not really sure.OK way out in left field with this and the reason I was wondering (and most of you won't know if this happened or not). During the late 40's-middle 60's it was not unusual for an MD to put a pregnant mother on "something" to make sure she didn't lose the baby. In some cases this was an estrogenic compound or similar hormone.
Like I said it is far out in left field (and I see Batty chomping at the bit to get to this) but being exposed to hormones in utero, and seeming like there is a disproportionate number of us in our "middle ages" I was trying to see if there may be a link? I am sure there is no scientific proof as far as dressing for this but males exposed to DES while in utero have a higher rate of prostate and genital problems. Since our sexual identity is likely formed during this time the excess estrogen (or progesterone in some cases) may have led to our hobby.
Of course if this is true, then we should see a decrease in CD's and TS's born in the 70's on.
See there is a method to my madness.
Now having explained that please continue posting general ages to see if there may be credibility to this
Guilty as charged. Early 50's here.
My mother says she took nothing while carrying me
Deborah... Thank you very muchx
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The lovers have flown...
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