Mom asking more questions

[whowhatwhen]

Luckily she seems to be becoming more accepting and asking more questions, just this morning asking me about SRS and how it works/is done.
However my joke about having an extra pocket to keep stuff in was not well received.
:)

[Nigella]

PMSL @ the pocket comment

[mikiSJ]

However my joke about having an extra pocket to keep stuff in was not well received.

Can't imagine why she didn't fall over laughing! She was probably thinking about what she carried in her 'pocket' a while back. (Not trying to be critical!)

[Donna Joanne]

That was a great comeback Corrinne! I'll have to go change my panties too Nigella!

[Audrey Sis]

Questions are great! They show the mind opening to new information, which for us, Trans or not, only Helps. I personally find your joke hilarious :) But yeh, look at the audience..

[DeeDee1974]

Well hopefully her SRS questions are more informed than the question my friend Jenny who I hadn't seen in a while asked me. The conversation went something like this:

Jenny: oh my god, you look good! It's been so long, too long!

Me: yeah, I know. Atleast six months.

Jenny: did you get rid if it yet?

Me: huh?

Jenny: you know (points below her waiste)

Me: really?

Jenny: sorry was that rude?

Me: Kinda. And to answer your question. Not yet.

[Angela Campbell]

I had someone ask me.....

Him: "you mean, you will actually let them cut it off?"

me: "Well actually they don't cut it off they slice it open from base to tip, filet it and kind of turn it inside out...."

Him: turns green and walks away

[I Am Paula]

Why does everybody want to know about our surgical status? It's like, 'Hi, haven't seen you in ages. You've become a women eh? Looking good. Have they cut off your joint yet?'
This is always accompanied by a slicing motion in front of their own genitals.

[DeeDee1974]

I find my female friends have a real fascination with my body. More so with my breasts than anything. Most of them think it's okay to grope me (usually after being over served). Not that they don't do the same to each other.

I also feel like I friend in particular might have dropped hints that she wants to fool around with me or that she's attracted to me, but just won't come out and say it.

[DebbieL]

Luckily she seems to be becoming more accepting and asking more questions,
Questions is good. This means that she is beginning to accept, to understand your desire, and that your intent is real.


just this morning asking me about SRS and how it works/is done.
This is the one thing that most people have the hardest thing to accept. I just tell them I haven't many any plans for that yet. Sometimes I'll tell them I'm planning the Orchiectomy soon.
Men have a hard time believing that anybody would want to get rid of "The Family Jewels". They've done many things to "prove their manhood" and the thought of losing it voluntarily seems like having someone chop your healthy arm off, without anesthetic. Women often wonder why you would want to give up what you've been getting as a man, for what they get as women.

For women, being pretty and nice and sweet are things they are pressured to do, and often there is a very narrow road. The don't realize that we are actually making a CHOICE to be who we are.


However my joke about having an extra pocket to keep stuff in was not well received. :)
We often joke to deal with the pressure and the strain, but it's important for those we love to know that we are serious about this, it really IS a matter of Life and Death.

Sometimes it helps to share our pain, how we suffered while growing up, because we were different. It helps others to understand that this is a choice we make with full awareness.
It's also important for them to understand that we have been leading a double life for a very long time, and we love that we can finally be honest with those we love about who we really are.

This is an opportunity to share with someone you love and trust, to share some of your deepest feelings, fears, and dreams.

I wish I had been able to talk to my parents more before they died. I didn't find out until just before my dad died, that one of the main reasons they didn't encourage my feminine side, was because they didn't want to see me "treated" with electroconvulsive shock, aversion therapy (genital torture, poisons, vomiting...), and maybe even a lobotomy. Medicine back in the 1960s and 1970s for treating transsexuals was pretty much in the stone age in the United States. A doctor could lose his license for removing healthy testes. A sex change was nearly impossible in most parts of the country.

[whowhatwhen]

It's also important for them to understand that we have been leading a double life for a very long time, and we love that we can finally be honest with those we love about who we really are.

I definitely get that but for me it's more likely because I have the sense of humour of a 10 year old.
:P

[PaulaQ]

One of the things you may find hon, as you progress, is that as you approach surgery, you actually get more negative pressure from your family than now. When you go to the surgeon, shit gets real, as they say, and people's ability to live in a pleasant state of denial "she'll never *really* do that!!!" is removed. Many don't react well to that.

[Jennifer S]

However my joke about having an extra pocket to keep stuff in was not well received.
:)

One of the funniest things I've read on here in a while! You go, girl :)

Jenn

[Nicole Erin]

However my joke about having an extra pocket to keep stuff in was not well received. :) Corinne, if I had to pick only three people around here as my favorites, you would easily be one of them.
It is nice that there are at least a few around here who do not get all serious about transition issues.

I can sympathize with your mom though. What is she gonna think after your SRS when the remote goes missing?

[Michelle.M]

. . . just this morning asking me about SRS and how it works/is done.

A friend of mine said this about how they turn an outie into an innie -

"You know how sometimes when you take off your sock and it comes off inside-out? It's kinda like that."



However my joke about having an extra pocket to keep stuff in was not well received.
:)

Well, you'd definitely have a place to keep your car keys while you're at the beach wearing only a bikini.

[Dianne S]

My mother also asked me a funny question. I replaced her ceiling fan and she said "Will you still be able to do stuff like that?"

I said "No, my brain will turn off when I'm a woman..."

[whowhatwhen]

Well, you'd definitely have a place to keep your car keys while you're at the beach wearing only a bikini.

Yeah, I'd just leave it with the little man in the boat.