What were your parents like growing up?

[Jenny Rose]

Yes, another question about understanding our origins. I was just curious however, whether you grew up with "normal parent" or parents that were a little different. My mom, for instance is like the perpetual, but responsible teenager: she took care of the mechanical needs, but lacked a lot of nuturing and is less-than-feminine in many ways. My Dad is has a certain neutrality to his presentation. Definitely non-feminine, but kind of low on the masculine scale as well. I was a pretty anxious little boy and never fit in with the other buys. I wanted to be near the girls, but was afraid of their rejection. Today, I view myself as having both female and male characteristics. In a perfect world, I would probably alternate between dressing like a male and female. and probably would often mix elements of the two as my mood suited me.

[DanaJ]

Where is the "freak show" option?

DanaJ

[Tristen Cox]

Small problem with the poll is there is no option for a masculine father(I wouldn't concider him normal that's for sure), only a very masculine father. Mine was masculine. Although a complete a***ole but that goes without saying. Mother was normal but not overly feminine.

[Natalie x]

My mom was very feminine on the inside, with not much chance to express it outwardly. My earliest memories of her are just after the second world war, when money was tight and things were hard to get anyway. She made do as best she could, but fashionable clothes and other luxuries for herself came way down the list after feeding and clothing her two little boys. Yet she was always a woman, always soft and loving.

Dad worked hard, was an honest, normal male man, not especially masculine or macho, but a good dad, and I looked up to him. I never saw him drunk, nor heard him shout at my mum or us kids

[Laurie Ann]

My father was the most decent, honorable caring father any child would want. My mother on the other hand was nuts. She abused prescription drugs and spent time in a psycharitic faculity for attempted suicide on three occasions. She was physically and verbally abusive to my sister and myself. She felt the world should revolve around her. I still do not know why she chose to have children but despite that we are relatively well adjusted (is dressing in womens clothes well adjusted for a man)

[racquel]

My father was the most decent, honorable caring father any child would want. My mother on the other hand was nuts. She abused prescription drugs and spent time in a psycharitic faculity for attempted suicide on three occasions. She was physically and verbally abusive to my sister and myself. She felt the world should revolve around her. I still do not know why she chose to have children but despite that we are relatively well adjusted (is dressing in womens clothes well adjusted for a man)
of course it is.Ask anybody :rolleyes:
masculine father/normal mother for me.

[Stormgirl]

Decent parents but they always took away any females clothes I was able to get my hands on :( they just diudnt understand it

[jo_ann]

my parents were (and still are) very normal as far as the transgendered/gay subject go.. dad is a little strange with his geekyness, and my mom is as dumb as a post when it comes to technology (how they ever got along I'll never know).. however I find this interested what my parents told me. When I was like 10, one of them actually told me "before you were born, we thought you were going to be a girl.. we had a girl's name picked out and everything, and had to use your grandpa's name at the last minute because we didn't have a boy's name picked out".. I know this sounds harmless, but perhaps this only fed my desire to be a crossdresser?

[Brianna Kylee]

My parents don't really fit into any of those categories. My mom isn't masculine at all, but I've never seen her in a skirt and maybe i saw her once in a dress. She always where's jeans and a tshirt. My dad is all into sports and everything and drinking beer, but he's not overly masculine. I dont know how i could even begin to categorize my parents without writing a book, so i won't. That's my input though.

[Ibuki_Warpetal]

Mom was a Air Force tomboy. Ammo!

Dad I didn't know but he did the same things I do for fun.

[merle]

Dad pretty much a dictator. Mom very comprehensive, but never a match to him. :thumbsdn:

[emmicd]

I have very fond memories of my mom and dad. I know they loved me and my sisters very much. My mom was a beautiful woman and she was very strong and very loving and caring. She stayed home for us until we were in highschool and then went back to work so she could help pay for our college. She had some emotional/mental problems and died way too soon and is missed very much!

My dad is a very strong and couragious man who never had fear in his work. He is now retired but was responsible for building many skyscrapers and bridges in his lifetime! He says what took several years to build took only hours to destroy completely by evil acts of terrorism. He was referring to the WTC which he helped build. That was a very sad day seeing all that destruction and devestation. And now we see it all over again in London and other cities. Will it ever end!

Didn't mean to digress, Just very proud of my dad and my mom!

Emmi

[DawnRodgers]

No father - died in WWII. Grew up with a normal mom amd her soster (her husband died when I was young) and her sisters two daughtewrs. Me the only "male" in a household with four women. GUess that answers the question why I am a TG.
Dawn :)

[melody]

I like the fact that I'm anonymous on here, so I can tell the truth without it actually coming to bite me in the arse.

Both of my parents are nuts, in a literal sense maybe because they have both spent time(s) in asylums. But my mum in a lovable sense, she's probably the most understanding sympathetic woman you could meet. My father is the more uhh, dark of the two, once going so far as to introduce me to a known pedophile. If I ever see that f*cker again I will do something which I'd rather not commit to words. Even though I'm 21 I don't remember much of my childhood, I do remember some good times and some bad times, so I can't say for sure what they were both like growing up, some memories are repressed. Though I had good friends who took me through childhood. As was said in the movie "Stand by Me", you never have friends as good as the ones you grew up with.

[Vivian Best]

My father was the most decent, honorable caring father any child would want. My mother on the other hand was nuts. She abused prescription drugs and spent time in a psycharitic faculity for attempted suicide on three occasions. She was physically and verbally abusive to my sister and myself. She felt the world should revolve around her. I still do not know why she chose to have children but despite that we are relatively well adjusted (is dressing in womens clothes well adjusted for a man)


Laurie Ann,

Our fathers appear to be very much alike. Dad was the balancing element of my parent's (children's also) life together. My mother never had mental problems that I was aware of, however, she was a ruthless, demanding and self centered woman. Dad told me one time that if it weren't for us children he would divorse her. He passed away just after my youngest sister graduated from high school. After he died, I think she did go kinda nuts and married a nut case two years older than I am. She passed away several years ago and the nut case she married is in prison for molesting children and the woman he married three days after mother died is in prison for trying to hire an undercover dective to kill him. What a disfunctional lot(you notice I didn't say family).:cry:

Vivian

[Laurie Ann]

Laurie Ann,

Our fathers appear to be very much alike. Dad was the balancing element of my parent's (children's also) life together. My mother never had mental problems that I was aware of, however, she was a ruthless, demanding and self centered woman. Dad told me one time that if it weren't for us children he would divorse her. He passed away just after my youngest sister graduated from high school. After he died, I think she did go kinda nuts and married a nut case two years older than I am. She passed away several years ago and the nut case she married is in prison for molesting children and the woman he married three days after mother died is in prison for trying to hire an undercover dective to kill him. What a disfunctional lot(you notice I didn't say family).:cry:

Vivian

My father told me the same thing after one of my mothers suicide attempts (this one she did while staying in our home and in front of our middle child oldest daughter). He stayed for the stability of the whole family. Fortunately we have not had contact with my mother in over 15 years. I agree dysfunctional is a better description than family.

[inherundys]

My father was a hard working masculine type guy. Mother was semi feminine, but what I would consider a normal woman. We were raised in a nazi like, fundamentalist christian cult religion, which made things really tough growing up. If I had been "caught" back then, I may have been shipped off to Siberia for deprogramming :eek:

[evelyn_tgirl]

i had a backwards relationship with my parents growing up, i wasn't connected to my dad very much, he had the "kids should be seen not heard" mentality, hard-core old-world catholic kind of guy, my mother on the other hand, she and I had such an amazing connection that I could talk to her about almost anything, she was my "confidante", when i was younger we talked about troubles at school, troubles just growing up, we had the "birds and bees" talk ... i definitely attribute a lot of my values and personality -- especially feminine side of my personality -- to my mother. Maybe the way i connected with my parents was similar to how their family life was ... my dad lost his dad very young and was very close to his mother, my mom lost her mom very young too

[Clare]

My Dad worked very hard and long hours to provide for his family all his life. He is a quiet unassuming type, but loving and considerate. Just as he was about to retire and spend his later years with Mum, she died of cancer which devastated him!

Mum was the organizing and everything under control type of person. She took great care of her family and was always there for each of us (including Dad). She was feminine in the way of women from her generation, always well presented even at home. Mum passed away in 2001.

Christine

[carson]

I don't even want to play this game... :cry:

[Tiffy]

Both were very masculine.

April

[eleventhdr]

You do seem to have left out some catagories and i would certanily like to join in but you will have to include those as well for me to do so I can go into some detail yet again about my parents that is as much as i do care to remebver about them while i was going through all of that. Oh well Suzy!.

[Katiegirl]

My father and mother were both "normal". My father was a very good business man and a caring father, but he was neither feminine or ultra masculine. He did not interfer however with the running of the home, that was my mother's domain. My mother was the dominent spouse, she had total charge over my 3 brothers ad me, however she was not maculine in any way or very feminine, but she always dressed well.

My parents were married over 60 years and gave the family, stability during difficult times, and it was a source of sorrow that both died from dementia

:)

Mind of a Women, Body of a Man, Life is a Bitch.

[celeste26]

MY mother was icy, non-nurturing, submissive. Father was a preacher more concerned with the world than our family. Father suffered grevious physical ailments when he was growing up so he didn't have that physical prescence. Both in a sense would have prefered not to have to deal with their physical needs if they could have avoided it. Puritanism at the base of their philosophy denial of physical pleasure etc.

Traveled a lot during my growing up time so I lost any and all friends I might have had every few years. Isolated and lonely without that connection to my body that "normal people" grow up with. Bonded with female clothes at first ejaculation and been a cross dresser ever since with all the guilt that one can pile up on oneself (we all know about that)

[mand]

What were my parents like?

Well I'm feeling kinda low so I might as well tell about them.

My Dad was a "Nazi", he had a totally extreme right wing veiw on everything, if something didn't fit within his very narrow minded veiws it needed to be "put down", to use his expression. The only emotion that he could ever show was anger, he saw the showing of emotions as a sign of weakness.

My Mum was a utterly self centred person, who had no maternal instincts at all. She cared about one person................herself.

I spent a lot of my childhood with my Grandparents, all of whom were good people.

I left home at the age of 18, and have never had any contact with them since.

love mand xxx

[Toyah]

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What were my parents like?

Well I'm feeling kinda low so I might as well tell about them.

My Dad was a "Nazi", he had a totally extreme right wing veiw on everything, if something didn't fit within his very narrow minded veiws it needed to be "put down", to use his expression. The only emotion that he could ever show was anger, he saw the showing of emotions as a sign of weakness.

My Mum was a utterly self centred person, who had no maternal instincts at all. She cared about one person................herself.

I spent a lot of my childhood with my Grandparents, all of whom were good people.
I left home at the age of 18, and have never had any contact with them since.

love mand xxx



Understand totally about your father mine was bad maybe not that bad. My mother was and still is one of the kindest people I know a little dizzy at times but totally lovable.
Saying that I dont really remember having a very enjoyable childhood and quite frankly being grown up is not all that great.

[Serena]

My mom was pretty much normal. She liked dressing in more feminine clothing, but I wouldn't call her "very feminine". I didn't know my dad very well because he died when I was young. But from what I remember, he was also normal.

[Rainbow6562005]

Migod! :eek:

Rainbow

[sissy boy jessica]

My mother was very feminine and had always wanted a girl, i never met my father he left us when I was only 3.