Crossdressing and the Internet

[Cathy_NJ]

I've been a tg all my life, and for most of it I have been in hiding, no one but me knew how feminine I felt, and desired to be. Since the advent of the internet and finding sites like this and others that provide advice and support, I feel a whole lot better about myself!

I was wondering what effect the internet has had on others of our group???

oh, and where would you be in your crossdressing activity if the internet didn't exist?

[ArleneRaquel]

It is very rewarding to know that you are not alone, and there is somewhere that you can go for help or just to get away from the outside world. This site as been a great help, and I have made many new friends here, especially one beautiful lady that I hope to become very friendly with. :love: & :hugs: Trina

[Billie2day]

We go through life thinking we are special.
That we are the only one with these problems or peculareties.
When you access sites like this you find out your story is repeated over and over in homes around the world.
Our hobbies are not something you can talk about around the water cooler or even over a beer after work.
The internet has allowed me to read the thoughts and deamons cd's bear within their minds about what they do, Think, or would like to do if it were more mainstream. And it sure beats reruns of CSI. Billie

[lowlavalentine]

I guess great minds think alike Cathy.. lol. Very similar themes.

[Billijo49504]

Welcome to the family. This place is much like a family...BJ

[Amanda Jane]

family really? / want to loan me money, pick me up at the airport and let me sleep at your house / didn't think so

family is blood / ask anyone who is jewish or italian / this is for the most part a fantasy / a dream world / the only place where some can feel this way

to the degree that the net has encouraged people to go out / and in that way more people meet more tg people / its good

to the degree that it replaces life / or that you feel that being here is like being out / it is bad

[marie354]

Even though I had been told that there were others like me, I never realized how many there were untill I came here.
Before the internet... I felt a bit lonely and odd.
After... A whole lot better, especially with sites like this.
I've logged into a few others, but I spend most of my online time here.
I do have some friends on Yahoo/IM that have cams and microphones and I think that's fun too.
Still a bit new to the internet, I used to only just do E-Mail and news.
:hugs:

[Kate Simmons]

I was pretty much on my own. I'd still be CDing as always but wouldn't be "sharing" with my friends as I've been doing since I came here.:happy: Ericka

[Amy Hepker]

This website has really helped me. I was able to find a group in my area, and I feel better knowing I am not alone as you are not alone. We have a lot of friends here. I have grown to know a few in the short time I have been on this forum. They are all great people.

[Dee Model]

Before the internet I was alone. I denied. I purged. I hated that side of me, periodically. Now I know that she's the best girl I've ever had and I cannot live without her.

I've learned to love the person/s I am. I prefer Dee to my drab side now. She's 'out there'. The male side is underlying. It's complicated. Dee's gonna change my life...make it infinately better. 'Normality',whatever that is, sucks!

[CDTiffany]

The Web, Does nothing but connect us (people) I am not saying that the web is the greatest thing on the planet, but for people, seeking people (like them selves, US) it is a good thing!
Tiffany.

[marie354]

'Normality',whatever that is, sucks![/COLOR]

I believe that everyone here is normal. Normality? What is normal for one isn't for another. I concider myself normal. So should you.
:hugs:

[cemab4y]

I have been involved with this aspect of my life for many years, long before the internet. I have researched the phenomenon, and seen several TV documentaries,etc. I even went to a CD support group meeting once. I must say, that I thoroughly enjoy these boards (there are several, and more popping up all the time). I have started corresponding with other sisters around the country, as well.

[Sweet Susan]

I've been a tg all my life, and for most of it I have been in hiding, no one but me knew how feminine I felt, and desired to be. Since the advent of the internet and finding sites like this and others that provide advice and support, I feel a whole lot better about myself!

I was wondering what effect the internet has had on others of our group???

oh, and where would you be in your crossdressing activity if the internet didn't exist?

Well, it has certainly cut down on stamps and renting retail mailboxes. I remember when I used to have to advertise in magazines. I'd have to pay two bucks for every person I wanted to write a letter to and share pictures with. The internet has changed all of that. Things are much, much better. I would have to say that if the internet were around when I first began to take this thing seriously, I would have probably gone much farther with it. Much farther meaning changing my entire life. I really wonder where I would have ended up.

[Terry]

Hi;

I feel the same as all the other girls, The internet as open up hole new WORLD for me and with this I learn to live and enjoy more of the finder things we all may have miss. I also have been more or less going it alone until now.


Terry

[Fallen Angel]

the internet has been good to me ive found alot o people that share the same interest and common bonds and just not from the states but across the world.

[SusanTL]

Hi.

I have found the net to be a very wonderful and enjoyable place. I have also found it can be a very dangerous place if one is to carfull and smart.

I have made many wonderful new friends.

Just be carfull in its use.

Susan

[Trinni]

This site gave me the courage to go to the store and buy some make-up, a thong, bra, slip and stockings. Before I just wore my SO's items. When I gat a chance I want to go out and add some clothes to put on top of those items and some shoes to go with it.

[stlmichelle]

The internet has had a profound effect on me. I would still me thinking shameful thoughts about my crossdressing, still hiding in the closet or worse. Thanks to sites like this, and the one that really taught me I was not alone, the old leggs forum, I have accepted this, and come to enjoy this aspect of my life. I no longer feel shame, or hide, although I also don't advertise. There are many who do not realize that I cd, but many who do, and I am comfortable the way things are.

[suzy]

In a socially unaccepting world, I feel better about myself, knowing that there are LOTS of others out there in the world like me... Yes...Just like me! That have the same feelings as I do, and the same fears...the same dreams and the same desires!

I didn't get involved in CD'ing until a few years ago and the Internet was widely used then....so I can't compare before and after, but I know that it would have been nearly impossible for me to be involved in CDing at all if not for the Internet and my FAMILY here in this forum!

I am forever thankful for this group and all of the other groups, that work to make our lives easier.:love:

[Kate Simmons]

And we are all glad you are here as well Suzy. Congratulations on your 1000 posts BTW.:hugs:

[Cathy_NJ]

I just wanted to thank all who responded, I feel that the net has been very beneficial to us all. Like many of you who responded, I too thought I was the only person in the world who felt this way, and was very relieved and encouraged when I learned that I wasn't! Cathy

[donna h]

I found this site over a year ago, and it has helped me immensely.As others have said I know Im not alone,the younger dressers are blessed that they have sources of support and info that many of us wish we had available when we were younger. Ive found courage to do things I never thought I could because of reading the posts here and reading the stories of others who are like me.

[Tammietoo]

I have to agree with most of the previous posts that the internet has provided a place to met and share this side of me with like-minded folks. It really is nice to have a place where people understand what you are going through, not judging you, and where you can just be yourself. There is a huge spectrum of crossdressers and transgender folks out there and it is a relief to know you aren't the only one.

As far as shopping...omg. Living in a tiny town and having the access to everything I could want is simply amazing.

I really wonder where'd I'd be at this point, had the internet been around when I was in my twenties. Anyway, good luck and happiness to all of you here! :D

[MJ]

I've been a tg all my life, and for most of it I have been in hiding, no one but me knew how feminine I felt, and desired to be. Since the advent of the internet and finding sites like this and others that provide advice and support, I feel a whole lot better about myself!


I was wondering what effect the internet has had on others of our group???

oh, and where would you be in your crossdressing activity if the internet didn't exist?

well it has help me to know that i am not alone. that there are others who are just like me
and i have met some from here and i am thankful to CD.com for that what a great bunch of people and the advice and wisdom thank god i am not alone
my cross dressing would be the same i live full time have many gg friends it would not change

[Eugenie]

I'd probably be in a partial closet, by that I mean that even before the internet advent my wife knew and I had also come out to a GG friend which I would visit and then dress at her home. But otherwise I was only dressing in my own home.

I would still feel the guilt I used to feel before I met all of the great people on this and other CD forums.

So thank you all for making me a free person. Well, almost :D
:hugs:
Eugenie

[Butterfly Bill]

I came out over a span that extended from 1988 to 1994, and I did not start posting on the internet until 1997. The internet has made me do a lot more writing than I had ever done before. And the computer word processor was almost enabling technology for the handicapped to me. I was (and still am) a very erratic typist, but now I can correct stuff easily and instantly. And I am motivated more now because i know there will be other people reading what i write.

[GINA-CD]

I just read a few posts from other girls, but I decided to stop reading and speak my mind......

I've Cded for a long time, wearing my sisters', my aunts' and my mother's clothes... once I thought I was sick and perverted, but the first time I had internet on my hands I looked for "transvestite", "transgendered" and some other words the world lets you hear about... to my surprise there were more than 1500 results.... I was amazed and from that day on I spent a lot of time in the office after working hours just reading and relieving my soul.... Those of you who felt the same will understand what I'm talking about.

Today I say Gina lives in cyberspace, and i truly believe that. Gina has friends here (in the cyberworld) and talks to them and shares experiences and posts pics and receives feedback and sometimes is flattered and sometimes feels sad and all of that is channelized through the fabulous WWW.

if I hadn't discovered internet and other girls like me, I'd probably be "more incomplete" (if there's a definition for that).

My life certainly changed with internet and places like this.

I'm still in the closet, but at least I know other girls have had the courage to come out and face what it takes to feel complete. Today I don't know if I want to come out to my SO and other friends and relatives, but I'm sure I enjoy Gina and she enjoys the partial life we share.

Internet is something wonderful for Gina and you girls, are part of this feeling.

Thanks a lot for your comments and support.

Love,
Gina

[Michelle 51]

I found that the internet has been a big help.I knew that there were there were tgs ts' drag queen's but i knew that that didn't fit me and i'm not being neg about those forms of CDing but with the net i found tri-ess sites and what a relief for here were CDer's like me who were hetro. happily married, children grandchildren and it was an eye opener.I like this site because it put's all of us CDer's together and helps us to understand all the different form's of CDing and that has been a good thing i think.

[Dee Model]

I believe that everyone here is normal. Normality? What is normal for one isn't for another. I concider myself normal. So should you.
:hugs:
I do! Perhaps when I intimated the theme of 'normality' I meant the 'conventional'. I think most people are repressed and aspire religiously to what society perceives as 'the norm' eg a man is a man and he don't do girly fings...like dressing up etc. Maybe if everyone just let loose and lightened up a bit there would be so much shit in the world.

Generally thou, people are narrow minded and stupid...sorry, but it is true.

Freedom is self-acceptance and open-mindedness. The world may never be free, but at least the world we got here...is.

[dods460]

I think the internet helped me to understand what transvestite really is. You see my thing is make up, I freaking love the stuff I wear it all the time different styles colours you name it, I just love it. I figured I was just freak until I was searching "men-make up" or something like that I think and discovered info on transvesitism(sp). I feel that without it I may not have come out due to my state of confusion. That being said I'm still kind of confused and am glad to have you girls here to help me, so thanks:love:

[KelleyTGirl]

Where to start.
I haven't been able to dress in rl for over 20 years because of family responsibilities. When I did dress before that, there was a lot of guilt.

When I first got on the internet, I was amazed at how many others there were like me. Chatrooms were my first foray into becoming more Kelley and less the old poop who lives in the same body as I do. In chatroom I could really BE Kelley. For the last few years, I haven't used chatrooms much, just sites like this. I mentally get into my Kelley mode, even if I can't really dress, and become completely her.

I know that you girls who have the opportunity to dress sometimes look down on those of us who can't. Just don't judge until you know our circumstances. Anyway, the internet has allowe Kelley to be who she is. I know this is confusing, but it makes total sense to me. lol

[Michelle_NY]

I have found that with the internet , I can be who I really am. A crossdresser who is starting to get more open about it( even though wife hates it) This group has been a great help to me and i know most of the others out here just like myself. I just recently figured oiut how to post my pics in the group. I really enjoy talking to you girls and really wish I found a few of you from NY or NJ out here who feel like I do. TY Michelle

[Cheryl GG]

Has helped me as I had no where else to research and to learn coping skills and understanding...I love him and I was willing to do what it took and still am and will till my dying day....and I have used the internet since I had a computer with connection at work and then finally could afford to bring one in my house (geesh that was back when computers were over a grand for a crappy crappy one - yall remember them days huh ???).....internet is a savior for me....xoxoC/

[Gary]

This site in particular has been a great help and support...esp for the support my wife was able to find here...this site and the internet has been great for my cding...gary

[diane59]

If this forum was available in the early 70's, who knows, I may have transformed completely. I never had anyone I could confide in with my desires and this is such a wonderful tool to communicate with others that most likely feel as I do. I have been reading posts now for several weeks to make sure it was real before I signed up. Now I genuinely feel that there are "Sisters" out there and have a place to let loose and feel "the woman inside"
xxxxoooo