We are different ................

[Shelly67]

My wife , and a couple of online t girl friends have remarked several times of how we seem to be unique and live almost alternative lifestyles in reflection of others we know - people who don't dress . I don't marginalise or label folk if I can help it , but it certainly got me thinking of other parts of my life that are not seen by others ( of my age - early 40's - sob) as normal , or indeed as one person rudely suggested befits my age - " I should grow up ". :Angry3:
My "alternative " hobbies mountain biking , power kiting , but mainly djing psychedelic trance probably don't fall into the mainstream lifestyles but certainly for me an absolute in life - especially djing .
I was wondering , what do the other girls on this site do ( other than popping on a frock ) that could be regarded as " different " .
So , what floats you're boat , just for a fun thread like ....?

Oh , and just for a giggle - its murder trying to dj whilst wearing a wig - makes wearing headphones , very hot , unstable and to much amusment of my wife .

[Kinky with Ink]

I'm into paintball big time. I've dropped boat loads of money on that hobby. Me and my team enter into speedball tournaments all the time. Speaking of trance I love it without a doubt and try and go to clubs playing it all the time. I used to jump out of perfectly good airplanes until I got hurt. I also scuba dive and snorkel on a regular basis. So yeah I guess you could kind of call me a adrenaline junkie.

[Ugly Michele]

I do the hunting-fishing things, love the outdoors.

[lilmissjenny]

i build lowrider trucks and am a photographer for an online custom car/truck magazine

[Michelle 51]

When i'm not dressed i'm a pretty normal guy.Ride a harley,my vehicle is a dodge diesel 4/4 and i dress like a red neck.If you could see under the jeans people would be very surprised to see shaved legs and panties 24/7.

[Karren H]

Nahhh. I don't think I'm unique.. I crawl around in underground coal mines for a living and ice skate and play ice hockey to relax... I know a number of crossdressing coal miners and a number of hockey playing crossdressers.... Just no coal mining, hockey playing ones.. Lol.

Hockey is where I live..... Life is just a place I go between games! :)

[Kandi]

I luv hunting and have been known to chase whitetails in full femme, camo excluded.

[leia]

When I dress either as a girl or guy I enjoy the same thing's I love to fish, Kayak, surf,play golf(big advantage from the red t's) and go 4 wheeling. I drive a jeep wrangler with a 4 1/2 lift on 35's so my skirt rides up a little when getting in it. :D

[Angie G]

I hunt and fish. Even go ice fishing sometime with pantyhose on for added warmth.:hugs:
Angie

[AmberLynn]

I do the hunting-fishing things, love the outdoors.

:iagree:

yup,fishing is the best. I like to bass fish in the early spring and cat fishing in the summer. some time's i go crappie fishing in later fall but has been a while

[Shelly67]

OMG - you lot make me feel very lazy lol:o

[Toni_Lynn]

I realised, well before I ever crossdressed, way back in grade school that I was different from the other kids. Didn't want to run and play tag or football or baseball. I was perfectly content just reading a book or listening to the radio. At age 11, on a summer day, you'd find me in the basement at home listening to my shortwave radio and reading about things like old time radio. As I said before on some other threads, I was a good kid and stayed away from all manner of trouble. The nuns at school loved me as I never was problem. The only place I was a problem was at home, where I was taunted by my mum as being a loner for not wanting to be out running around with the boys. When she discovered my crossdressing it was only more so.

All of this stuck with me over the years and has perhaps become more intense. On a scale of being different from others, I'm right out there. For example, noting that none of this is a judgment of those who do not agree with me or don't like what I like:

1) I don't watch TV. If I do its the news, the Weather Network, and TCM. I've never seen Seinfeld, Frasier, Friends, Survivor etc. Most contemporary thing I've watched --- Corner Gas on CTV.
2) I still listen to old time radio and fall asleep each night listening to Gangbusters, Nightbeat, Dragnet, Lux Radio Theatre, or Johnny Dollar.
3) I collect 78 rpm records. Oh, and vintage training bras.
4) I want to move to Canada and become a citizen there
5) I have no time or the emptiness of most of today's pop culture.
6) Hate sports!
7) I am pro-life and cannot morally accept abortion or the death penalty
8) Don't drink alcohol or take drugs -- I want to be in control of me at all times

Thing is, I am like this whether I'm in boy-mode or girl-mode. Which gets to my next point. Hanging around here has brought me to the conclusion that I am even quite different from my crossdressing peers -- to the point where I feel that I don't fit, even here. I guess its because (and note again that none of this is a judgment of those who do not agree with me)

1) I'm a devote and traditional Roman Catholic
2) I have no desire to get dressed and go clubbing
3) I have no problem with menswear-like girls clothes and in fact find them to be a bit of turn on when I'm wearing them.
4) I find GGs wearing men's clothes and especially men's underwear to really hot -- and my wife is the hottest of all when she does this for me.
5) The recent thread about bondage and the somewhat enthusiastic responses in favour made me feel out of place because I can't see any connection to CDing among other things. This is similar to the way I felt as age 12 or so when I read Dr David Rueben's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex and he lumped us in with homosexual practices. I knew it wasn't what I was about
6) Don't feel that I have to put today's breed of drag queens on a pedestal, march in gay pride parades to show that I support us as CDers or hold no hatred toward G/L/B people, and just because I'm a CDer my favourite movies don't have to be To Wong Foo or Priscilla...

I could go on, but I won't. At times I'm proud of the ways I'm different. At time though I feel like the Joe Jackson song says 'If you don't fit, you're fit for nothing at all" -- and that I'm searching for my Island of Misfit Toys

Huggles

Toni-Lynn

[lavistaa62]

I'd say that all of us share at least one thing in common and that's a great start; many of the world's political and social issues could be solved by focusing on this. None of us are as bland or uniform as the media would like us to be or as unthinking as we may perceive others to be. In addition, we're all I think more open minded than the norm. To take things beyond that I think is to find artificial divisions created by nationality, local culture and upbringing.

[CamillaCD]

I have been paragliding for the last 18 years. That's a bit unusal I think.

[JiveTurkeyOnRye]

I imagine it is because we've already become so willing to stretch the boundaries by dressing the way that we want to, that we're also less inhibited in other parts of our lives, or maybe its the other way around, because we're less inhibited we're able to wear the stuff we want?

Twice in my life I packed up and attempted to move across the country, and I plan to again in the next six months or so, I also perform stand up comedy, which is a pretty risky thing judging by the amount of people who tell me they're jealous and wish they could do it.

[Veronica 1]

4) I want to move to Canada and become a citizen there

Huggles

Toni-Lynn

Honey, you just get on up here. We would love to have you.

Ronni

[Toni_Lynn]

Honey, you just get on up here. We would love to have you.

Ronni

On my way to BC -- autumn 2010 .. my wife beside me and Puppy and Kitty in tow!

Huggles

Toni-Lynn

[suchacutie]

Ok, we are in the NE and heat entirely with wood, and that means buying logs and having fun with chainsaws! We maintain a massive garden, I'm a violinist, I love rebuilding internal sections of houses, love all kinds of woodworking, never watch commercial TV, love to cook (even in male mode), and I crochet (again, in both genders).

I even have the time to go to work and earn a living!

:)

tina

[nancyish]

i play bridge with a bunch of grannies and i fit in perfectly(if you can believe it!)Nancy

[CherylFlint]

My Porsche, a 1984 944 that I'm constantly working on, up grading, improving, it never ends but it keeps me off the bar stool, although I quit drinking about ten years ago.

[Veronica 1]

On my way to BC -- autumn 2010 .. my wife beside me and Puppy and Kitty in tow!

Huggles

Toni-Lynn

Sweet, what part of BC are you headed to?

[Fran Moore]

I think you are right, we are different! And even if we were more accepted in society, I would still be "two different people" on the outside. Getting dressed up puts me in a whole different state of mind, and I do my best to emulate the type of woman I would want to be if I were biologically different. The thing is, I am always the same on the inside, and that keeps me grounded and puts my life into perspective each and every day. For those of us that are daily visitors to this site, it is proof positive that we think about our "uniqueness" on a regular basis. For me, I find comfort in sharing my inner thoughts with others who can relate to how I feel, (on the inside) and I enjoy the confirmation of that. Most of my friends and aquaintences would just not understand, but that doesn't mean that I would want to give them up for their lack of understanding, thus the "living two seperate lives" concept.

I find it amazing and refreshing that we are so different in what we do occupationally, and recreationally. There are truly many colors that come out of the same crayon box!

Suzanne:daydreaming:

[silkenhose]

i have a 23 ft wakeboard boat that my wife thinks i am having an affair with........i love to wakeboard and surf......also have a few cool cars to love to drive......

silk

[Jaclyn NM]

While I don't consider my crossdressing a hobby ( it's who I am ), I do have a number of things I love to do. In the summer and spring, I golf as much as I can, and in the winter I ski as much as I can. Since I'm retired I can do a lot of both. I have also become an accomplished cook, which my wife loves. I also bake and make my own pie dough. I could say that that is my feminine side, but most of the best chefs are male.

[joandher]

I just love Shire Horses and have a few mares for breeding they are GENTAL GIANTS , and if people were half as honest as animals there would be no trouble in this world

:hugs: J-JAY

[Shelly67]

Well if lifes a box of chocolates then we are certainly a varied selection and come in many flavours !!

[Samantha Girl]

I do a lot of stuff! Not particularly athletic things but lots of stuff!

I'm an artist but not a working artist. I'm one of those cliched struggling artists. I've made over 250 oil paintings and dozens of sketchbooks full of pencil, ink and charcoal drawings. A few clay sculptures. I also have made a good amount of ink & watercolor paintings. Currently working on a couple of comic book stories I've come up with. I love art, it's always been my obsession. This is how I spend most of my time ;) www.stevenbrudie.com

2nd biggest passion is music. Enjoy lookin around record stores for hours, used to work at Tower records. Love going to shows big and small. Last week I saw Regina Spektor. Saw my favorite band Pearl Jam in September in Seattle, I've seen them live 22 times! Before we moved we saw Green Day and then Weezer at MSG ;) Went to Bonnaroo last year. I collect vinyl as well, small collection. Love a lot of alternate rock like Juliana Hatfield, the Gossip, Rilo Kiley, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Garbage and Veruca Salt. Plus bands like the Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Gorillaz, Sublime... I love the 90's and lots more! :p

Movies & TV & Comics & Books & Toys. I can't help it, seriously. I looooooove cartoons, the Simpsons, Family Guy, SpongeBob, etc. Favorite show of all time is Aqua Teen Hunger Force on adultswim. Love science fiction and comedy the most but I will watch almost any movie. Plus I'm one of those people who loves going to the theater. Bit of a movie geek. I love Star Wars... I'm sorry, it can't be helped. I have hundreds of toys, mostly Star Wars and cartoon related. I love weird, sorta off the beat and path comics. Not the typical superhero stuff. Favorite comics artists/authors Sam Keith (the Maxx) and Ross Campbell (Wet Moon). Love horror novels like the Stand and Swan Song.

I used to be in a pool league, the local APA bar league in Jersey. Used to love playing pool, I'm actually pretty good.

Love traveling and taking photos. Me and my girl have driven across the country a few times, it's kind of amazing to see.

Ummmmm... I think those are all my interests, generally :p Oh and I'm a liberal, hippy stoner.

[erickka]

I'm into both electric and "gas" R/C models. Quite expensive though. It can be taken as a kid's hobby or a BIG kid's hobby, so maybe I' m safe?

[Michelle-Leigh]

The normal hobbies that I am into are model railroading, model airplane flying, photography and fishing. I am also an occasional artist. What is really different about me is that I am a jam (read contemporary "disco" dance) skater with a very unique style of skating - I even execute spins and freestyle (figure skating) jumps in some of my routines. I even use some artistic skating influence in my style, an even rarer thing these days... And I just love to tear up the Commodores' Brick House or Lady Marmaladein a remote rink while wearing a skirt ! All of this makes me nearly as rare as a Velociraptor dinosaur; hence my nickname of "RinkRaptor"..... Or "Lady RinkRaptor" when skating en femme ! And the drawing of her below is my own work....

http://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu143/michelleleighb/RinkRaptorCaricatureSmall.jpg

http://i642.photobucket.com/albums/uu143/michelleleighb/LadyRinkRaptorCaricatureSmall.jpg

[JackieB]

I rollerblade three to four times a week most of the year. Sometimes I feel so alone even though I'm married and my wife accepts my crossdressing. I think my lonlines stems from the fact that I don't wear make-up or a wig. I have never had the desire to "look" like a girl as a youngster, teenager or as an adult and in retrospect I think that is why most of the other crossdressers we've met over the years kept their distance. It seems like the only ones that didn't mind being seen with me were the trannie hookers which of coarse my wife didn't want me to get close with, not that she doesn't trust me but she has always been worried that my being seen associating with them dressed as I would usually be, I would be regarded as one of them. My wife and I are still in love with each other after 30 years of marriage and even though my dressing up has slowed down the last 5 years or so I still wear panties, a panty girdle and hose every day from the moment I wake up till we go to bed. Chicago has such a large cding community and I feel sad that I was never accepted by them because I was content to look like a man wearing a dress. Does this sound silly ?

[Samantha Kelsey]

I'm into scuba diving and have done my first 20 hours flying on microlights. I also enjoy very much singing (for payment) in bars and at parties. Early next year I want to take up paragliding/powermotoring (probably wearing male clothes but who knows). Can't wait for that.
As for all my male friends, Most still work and like to spend time in the pub or in front of a TV watching football. Well, each to their own eh?

[Frédérique]

I was wondering , what do the other girls on this site do ( other than popping on a frock ) that could be regarded as " different ".

Well, I make etchings for a living, so that means I stick my hands in (dilute) nitric acid or hydrochloric acid from time to time. I’m also airbrushing, polishing and working with solvents and a respirator nearly every day. All of this does wonders for your hands, so it’s a good idea to remove the nail polish beforehand – believe it or not, my hands looks very nice, all things considered…:)

Not really an extremely different thing to do, but how many girls can say, “Come upstairs and I’ll show you my etchings…” and really mean it? :battingeyelashes:

[Bethany_Anne_Fae]

GREAT thread, Shelley! My god I could write a novel on this subject lol. Mostly I am into the Renaissance circuit. It seems to take up the majority of the free time I have but when I am not doing that I am an Independent Film score composer. Independent films are mostly small potatoes but I like it that way because I can relax when I create and there aren't the deadlines that the big boys have (also smaller paychecks lol).
Working with synthesizers, samplers, and creating soundscapes for others to enjoy is my most favorite thing aside from expressing my enfemme side.

Then there are the other period reenacments, Civil War, American Revolution, French & Indian wars, that I get to do every so often too, but those are few and far between. This year I am going to Dicken's on the Strand in Galveston in a new Victorian outfit with the awesomest bustle skirt ever :)

Lastly there are the normal fun things that i like to do with friends.. fishing, camping and being outdoors.

There ya go :)

*hugs*

Zarabeth

[Dawn Marie]

I love the outdoors, and in the spring will find me backpacking in the desert out in Big Bend National park by myself for a week or more. The desert is all in bloom in early April. I just love the peace and serenity it gives to me. I also love canoeing , hiking and I bicycle about 15 to 20 miles at least three times a week.

[krisinpink]

Motorsports in general...build/maintain race cars, street cars, & ride the Softail. Love fishing, just haven't had time for that in a long time. I guess I'd have to list shopping as another hobby, I just love it, and am getting more brave about trying things on in the stores. (Guess I'm wising up-- finally got tired of bringing things home to discover they don't fit!)

[dennisGTS]

I wouldn't consider any of my hobbies unique by any means...

I love snowboarding; usually wearing hose under my board pants. Love getting my hands dirty working on my car; love the import scene. I occationally fish. I like drinking beer; and am into trying different kinds of beers. And am into sci-fi movies and TV shows.

[Monica93304]

I'm into sports in general. I love to play golf, but haven't in a loooong time. Fooooore!

Being a mechanic by trade, I love motorsports. I like to drag race my old VW's whenever possible. I'm also in the process of rebuilding a 914 Porsche. I love open wheel racing (Formula 1).

I like playing 9 ball. Haven't done that as a girl, but will do so at some point.