Originally Posted by
Star01
This thread and others like it leave me questioning where crossdressing leaves off and transgender begins. I ask this out of curiosity and the need to understand myself better.
Prior to finding this forum I thought of crossdressing as something part time and separate from my day to day life. Kind of an escape to put it another way.
I have done car maintenance, summer long remodeling projects and pretty much everything imaginable inside the house. Clothing was always jeans or shorts and a pocket t-shirt and the jobs were often things that could potentially run clothes like sealing the asphalt driveway for example.
By my way of reasoning my main goal was getting the work done, keeping my hair and sweat out of my eyes and trying not to ruin my work clothes. Think crawling under a car to replace a starter or tearing off decking on a 95 degree humid day.
Wearing a wig under a vehicle and accidently dragging it through wet oil dry would ruin the wig instantly. In my case in a dadt I don't have a big selection of clothing and have limited storage space. Why would I want to risk ruining the things I have on an oil change.
While I admit to having dysphoria when that can be pretty overwhelming at times it is not so bad that I would ruin good femme clothes. I can understand the desire to get dressed and go out all prettied up but I don't understand working in the grime and grease and ruining good clothes. When I do those things I wear the old drab clothes with the holes and stains. That way if I make them worse I can throw them away. What am I missing here?