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Rianna Humble
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Thanks to other "spiritually minded" people, I spent decades believing that who I am was "wrong" so I can sympathise with you on that score. The long-term result of that was depression leading to thoughts of self-harm or self-termination.
When I came to realise that what I do is a result of who I am (not the other way around), I was faced with a choice - accept who I am and find out what that means, or reject who I am with the obvious conclusion.
I might be just picking bones here but thats not what i meant as "wrong" as if my being is "wrong" and "unmoral." what i meant was that the being that i am and all the understanding that has gone with it and all the pushes and pulls and the ups and downs and expressions and repressions has led me to this moment. to where i am now and where i am is in a state where i don't need "dressing" and it has beome empty to a large extent, not by repression but through EXPRESSION.
By "wrong" i meant that all this might somehow still be "wrong" (not morally or spirtually) and that fear only exists for two reasons one is my own impulse and the other because of the philosophy "it always comes back"
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How you view that at thirty will depend on your viewpoint at that age. You may feel that your reasoning was empty, or you may feel that there was truth behind what you wrote but it was only as complete as your life-experience to date. IMNSHO, no-one's life experience is ever complete for as long as they live and if we keep an open mind we can learn from others and from new experiences whether we be 16 or 116 (I am neither of those two ages).
My beliefs at age 54 are different to those I held at age 20. Does that mean that what I believed at age twenty was empty? Or does it mean that I have acquired new life experiences since then that have shed new light on my beliefs? Some things haven't changed fundamentally - such as my belief in the need for fairness, respect for others, and equality of opportunity for all or the fact that the team I support are still the greatest team in the world for me.
i agree about that whole viewpoint thing.
the emptiness is think on different things. It would be empty in my case because whats behind me now is "will" and your (im guessing) was just a view point of life. Im not saying that is empty, just my "will"
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I hope I am wrong, but I feel that you are in danger of trying to make the facts fit the theory rather than examining whether your theory fits the facts.
You are. and what happened on my birthday had nothing to do with crossing ( i think i hadnt dressed for months at that point) it was another incident on realted because i was chasing a fantasy and reality came and hit me pretty hard.
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If you are absolutely positive that "crossing" is only a fantasy, you will have no difficulty in putting it away forever. From what you write, you have tried and failed more than once. Does that not tell you anything other than that the facts don't fit?
But your assuming that a person can't grow. Just because you didnt understand something at 20, 22, 24 doesnt mean your not gonna understand it at 25 or 26 or 54.
Its a fantasy because i only chase the next big thing. And everytime i did that next big thing i got used to and i had to construct another big thing to chase. First it was just panties then i got bored and went clothes and got bored and started to shop and got bored started to dress out but got bored had sex with a guy but got bored. And everytime i went to something bigger it always became empty after a certain time. which is a fantasy because i could never grasp what i was chasing. because what i was chasing was my past, my "self" in disguise.
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This site doesn't hold any philosophy - it is an inanimate thing. The people on this site have a philosophy that allows them to support other people who cross-dress or who are friends/family/significant others of those who do. To say that this support can be harmful betrays either a lack of understanding of what support is or a crass attitude to those who try to help here. I hope that in your case it is the former.
I might have jumped the gun on that one. sorry.
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I believe that you are confusing gender and sexuality. In relation to whether someone is gay or not, the term straight is normally used to mean heterosexual (men or women) and gay to mean homosexual (men). This being so, your proposition that there might be "straight gay guys" and "gay straight guys" makes no sense at all. How can you have a heterosexual homosexual or a homosexual heterosexual?
I believe that you are asking whether some cross-dressers may be hetero and some not. The answer to that is definitely yes there are some of each and also some bisexual cross-dressers, but their gender presentation is totally separate from their sexuality.
Haha no im not. not at all. OKAY! you know how some guys think there straight but with time they find out they are gay. Have you ever wondered is there are some guys who think they are gay and with time they find out they are straight?
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Please take the time to reflect on what is behind your fears. I get the distinct feeling from your posts in this thread that you are trying to reason your way out of accepting yourself for who you are and that part of the cause of this is that from a "spiritual" point of view you believe that to be other than cisgendered is morally wrong. As soon as you try to graft morality onto what for many (if not for all) is a product of their innermost being you begin to put an artificial straight-jacket onto yourself and those you so judge.
You completley misunderstood me. i think its my fault. My spirtuality is not tied to a religion. Not to some church or some belief that my family has held for generations. I dont believe that crossing is immoral or a "sin"... thats just what you have been fed. My spirtuality is about truth. About accepting life as it is. Not MY life but LIFE... as in ALL OF EXISTENCE
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Others have commented on your question about where are the contributions from those who have stopped cross-dressing. There may be some for whom cross-dressing was a phase in their life-experience. I have never met any and I would not expect them to continue contributing to a support site for those who are cross-dressers, transsexuals, friends and loved-ones. There is no judgement intended in that statement.
Don't get me wrong i really appreciate all you guys talking about this. Im here to understand your perspectives/lives/and philosophy. and in order to do that i have to express what i feel and if anybody points out to me that i am some how wrong or running away i want to deal with that head on and express what i have learned and see where that leads.
I will truthfully look at myself with honesty because what im for isnt "safety and security" but the chaos of the "truth"