What was your first expierence with crossdressing?

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Originally Posted by VanessaVW

I'm just wondering if anyone else started because of someone else's influence? A friend, family member, etc.

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[SIZE="2"]I was a self-starter, but I’m self-taught about nearly everything. I had to discover all about crossdressing on my own, one step at a time, and that process continues to this very day. I wish someone had introduced me to this secretive world at a tender age, so I could have tapped into my true self earlier. An imaginative babysitter, a kindly aunt, a playful older sister, or a crossdressing boyfriend would have been just the thing. I daydream about what never happened, but it’s too late to go back…:sad:[/SIZE]

I was a self starter, at 5, then the workd by 8.

Self starter at about 4 years old.

wel i think i started with a game,at night when i was young. MY brother, and my 2 sisters and i were playing in my sisters room. And out of nowhere, my brother forced me to slip on a nightgown of my sister's. they thought it was funny...i didnt. BUt after that, i was naturally drawn back to my sisters clothes.....especially that night, when i slipped into her room to try on that gown again. And of course i was caught! All i could say was "my brother forced me too."

Definitely self-starter!

All by myself

as a child I was totally a self starter-my sister didn't at the time, know that I was wearing her things.

As an adult, my x-wife got me started a second time by inviting me to dress in her things - to live out a lesbian fantasy. After that, I was hooked.

Self starter all the way. No one had to push me.

Self-Starter here!

I am sure I would have ended up dressing in girly things without help. But I got a lot of help from my mother. She made dresses at home and specialised in weddings. A young boy is often about the size of a young adult woman, so my brother and I were frequently used as live manequins.

I think in my youth, with my mother;'s help, I must have worn maybe 30 or 40 wedding dresses and lots of brdesmad dresses. I remember one time wearing a particularly pretty dress and we got a bit silly and dolled me up completely and pretended I was getting married. My mother thought it was pretty cute she often said it was a crying shame I had been born a boy because I'd have made a very pretty girl.

Hannah

To the best of my recollection, my earliest memory of dressing as a girl was being dressed by my sister. She said I was like her "doll". She paraded me outside to show me off. My Mom was outside hanging clothes on the clothesline, saw me and said "get him back inside and take that stuff off him!", which I would say was a little bit disapproving.
In one sense, that would be my "introduction". But did it happen because my sister wanted to play dress-up with a life-sized doll OR did I put myself in that position eagerly and without consciously being aware of what I wanted?
After that earliest memory, I have been totally self-taught. When I would be left home alone, I would dig through my sister's drawers, trying on her stuff. She seemed to always notice (I was not so careful putting things back the same way I found them) so eventually I started using my Mom's stuff (OMG! Those Hanes stockings!!). My Mom would go visit my Grandmother all-day every week or two and I figured out that if I was "sick" on one of those days, I could play dress-up for a long time.
After I graduated from high school I started using make-up and started doing complete transitions.
And since then, I have done nothing but gotten better, all through self-teaching.

I would say that I started all by myself and yes it has been gender confusing at times for me also. I have had struggles with my identity on and off for a long time

I guess I was nudged by my mother. She and one of my Aunts dressed me as a girl for Halloween at an early age. Then again when I was in High School by her and some of her neighbor lady friends. In between those times I had been raiding her closet. She would let me try on new shoes. And gave me some old ones to wear around the house. Maybe that's where my fetish for heels came from. LOL!! It was nice being an only child from that stand point. My Dad didn't say too much, plus he was away alot.

Renee

Self starter at a very early age.

Started all on my own. Don't really remember how old I was, but I'm pretty sure I was in middle school at the time.

started on my own, no sister, eldest boy of three. enquired about 'why can't I wear dresses' to my mum and grandmother at age 3or4. never got one but an old dress my size appeared in a chest of drawers where bedding etc was kept, in my room at some point, also a teen bra(certainly not my mother's) appeared in an airing cupboard. A pair of white satin shoes and a fur coat were kept in my wardrobe too. never discussed anytime by my Mum, and she never knew the extent of my dressing after my marriage.

Was my own decision. I wanted to know what it was like to dressup like a girl. Discovered that it was more fun than I had expected.

Self starter.

Not just a self-starter, at about age 10, but totally alone in my crossdressing activities for decades. There was no internet when I started, and I dared not to discuss my desire with anyone else. So I learned makeup and dressing from magazines, and I was always interested in reading all I could about crossdressing in psychology books.
When I read a post about someone asking for tips about putting on makeup, eyelashes, etc., my tip always includes "practice". I guess that's because everything I know I learned on my own. Not a burden, though. I always enjoyed learning and practicing.

I have a vague recollection of being dressed in girls clothes by my sister as a kind of a live doll at a very early age. I am sure this was the initial seed.

Started dressing again during puberty and even now it is still a sexual rather than a lifestyle thing.

My sister used to dress me up in her Swimming Costume and Nightgowns thats where it all started when she stopped dressing me i used to sneak the clothes from her and my mom.

I'm a self starter though I started out late and as an "admirer". This was all due to discovering a crossdressing magazine at the local ABS. I found myself intrigued and attracted to M2F transgendered. Following years of being a "trannychaser", I finally became intrigued enough to start dressing and have been happily doing it since.

Started all by my lonesome. Didn't seem to need any coaxing in this area.

Self initiated activity from day one.

this crossdressing thing started all on my own with no introduction to
or provocation by anyone else.It is a manifestation of my own curiosity
and puberty gone mad.But what a thrill ride it has been..........dana.