"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"

I too have bulletin board experience dating back to Usenet. The Alt. hierarchy was simply awful but there wasn't anywhere else...

Fast forward to a couple years ago. I was connecting the dots in my life and then the answer became visible. I was a crossdresser, or something like it anyhow. I went to a couple of search engines and began researching. As others have said, there are quite a few raunchy sites out there. I was getting confused. I don't have the same desires as so many others seem to have. I found a site for CD wives and became really confused. If I wasn't one of the crossdressers I'd read about, then what was I?

Eventually I found this site. It is devoid of the smarmy stuff, there are no flame wars, no trolls, no pop-ups, nothing prurient, just civil discussion among like minded persons.

That's EXACTLY what I was looking for. I lurked for a month or so and signed up.

A VERY BIG part of what makes this forum so good are the moderators. Let's give them a hand.
<pause for applause>
I have had run-ins with moderators a few times, but their often unrecognized work is what makes this place so special.

Best wishes
MsVal

I like to read Stana's femulate, and her site is linked to CD.com I followed the link and here I am and how happy I am to find it as well, it has been a godsend for me
Adelaide

i found this site researching crossdressing for haloween one year

I found this forum years ago. I would lurk on it once and a while. I started having questions about what I do and wanted to find out more on this forum than what I could being a lurker. So I signed up.

Pamela, I knew of the term cross dressing for many years before I found this forum. I had been a closet dresser through both my marriages even though both wives knew and disapproved. When wife #2 passed away I went searching for chat rooms or web sites that addressed my own desires. Crossdressers.com was one of the first sites to pop up on my google search. That was in 2007 and I've been a member ever since.

Like every one else I googled crossdressing a term I learned from two publications named the" TV-TS Tapestry for all those interested in Crossdressing and Transexualism" and Lady Like.I can't remember how I came across those mags but they led me to a support group but it was more for TS's and transitioning not what I was or looking for. It took a long time before I found this site and jumped right in after only a few incidents of "lurking". Learned a lifetime of info and support so now I accept my CDing as a part of me and even take pics and post them something I would never do before now I can't stop. Funny now I'm not alone in this crossdressing thing anymore.

It was by chance . It took a while untill i got the courage to sign up . I had no idea of what to expect. To my surprise i found people who had the same desires as i . It then became something real,I wasnt the only one who enjoyed crossdressing. I was no longer a pervert. There a millions of us out there but only a few will admit it. I enjoy crossdressing ,i am a crossdresser ,and here i can say it ...THANK YOU GIRLS

A string of unpaid parking tickets.... up before the beak and given 200 hours community service and bound over for two years...

"What... ? Like any community...?" I said foolishly....

The rest - as they say - is his story.... :facepalm:

Kidding Katey x

I'm pretty sure I have already talked about this exact question on here before, but maybe not with this much detail...

I discovered the term 'cross-dresser' long before the internet was as ubiquitous as it is today. It was in 1990 when I was playing Leisure Suit Larry III. The term was mentioned in a particular scene, and made me think that if there was a word to describe it, it might be more common than I initially thought. So I can thank Sierra for putting that phrase in my head.

Many years later upon getting (dial-up) internet access, some of my first ever searches online were for crossdressers. That's when my curiosity REALLY exploded. Even then, it took years of scouring the internet and personal websites for me to finally take the plunge and do it for myself. But it wasn't something I just spontaneously decided upon. It took a lot of surfing, browsing, viewing, and reading to convince myself that this was something I wanted to do. Fortunately, I found more than enough material online to help with my decision.

I hope this doesn't hijack this thread, but does anyone remember Pandora dePledge? or Austins Angels? I'm pretty sure that I've seen a few photos on here that looked very much like one of Jamie Austins makeovers. Possibly even photos I can remember looking at on that site... Anyways, I frequented those sites quite regularly. But, coming in at No.1 as my most frequently visited website during my 'years of discovery' phase, was none other than Vicki Rene's Prettiest of the Pretty! Even back then, it had hundreds, and hundreds of linked websites of people from all ranges of TG. For myself, that was a valuable resource when it came to realizing that crossdressing was WAY BIGGER than I had ever imagined.

Around that same time, I found URNA, and mustered up enough courage to make a profile and reach out to local people. Made some friends, hung out with some of them, got out with some of them. This was great fun for a couple of years. Then, what felt like all of a sudden, we just stopped getting out together... I bought a new house, moved out of my parents house, and it was around this time that communication with my three best CD friends seemingly vanished. The odd email would fly around occasionally, but nothing ever materialized. Maybe another year or so went by... Occasionally I would hit up URNA again and see I couldn't find some new local friends.... Nothing ever panned out.

Somewhere around that time, and I don't remember exactly how, but I ended up on this forum. Might have been a google search that landed me here I don't know. But after a few days of lurking around, I decided to join the forum. Made a few posts here and there, and then as quickly as I had found this forum, I forgot about it... Just stopped coming back... Meanwhile, I had started up a Flickr profile and began uploading my favorite pics. That kept me busy for a while, and I still update my profile from time to time. A few years rolled by, and again, just out of nowhere, I remembered that I created a profile on here and came back to see what was up, and what has been going on...

I'm very happy that I did. I really enjoy visiting this forum and reading about others on here. While I don't contribute nearly as much as some, I still visit the forum usually once a day, take a quick look at what's new, and when I find I subject that warrants my opinion or thought, I leave a message.

Like many others it all started with a Google search. I had no idea how many others there were out there until I started reading about other crossdressers on Flickr and URnot Alone. Reading these sites only fueled my curiosity and finally 1 day I happened across this site.

I lurked for a quite a while since I really didn't understand the community yet. After reading for a few months I joined.

After finally realizing what I had been doing for years was, I spent 2 years wandering in the wilderness of porno and hookup sites before finding this one. It has been incredibly helpful, despite some small wounds and one large one inflicted by someone who later became a mod, it has been a positive experience overall

Found this forum while questing for reasons why other CDs CDed; unlike many here I was inexplicably free of the pornography and sexual content associated with cross-dressing. Also, I wanted first hand information from fellow CDs rather than abstract theories and broad blind brushes.

To test the waters of how I reckoned cross-dressing was perceived, I actually put up a post on my high school confessions page over a year before I came to this site. Reactions were largely supportive vis-Ã*-vis my parents and the school discipline committee who considered it 'perverted' for one to CD for the sheer sake of it. So ashamed was my mother that she reprimanded me in Mandarin exclusively so the neighbours wouldn't understand.

Eventually I signed up here to join a network of advice and ruminations; sadly anonymity can only go this far before vulnerability rightfully breaks through. This site was one of the first I stumbled upon in the midst of my daze of catharsis and an irrational fear of being outed and disgraced. Of course, trying to come to terms with my CDing took priority as it never went away despite many hiatuses.

Before the internet I didn't know anything about CDing except that I was doing it! I felt alone, isolated, thought there was something horribly wrong with me. Then, thanks the arrival of the net, my whole world changed. Found out there was nothing wrong with me at all and could leave an ugly period behind.

I only found this forum a short while back but guess that has to do with me being a non-english speaking nationality. But aside from the occasional language barier I find this an awesome place to talk about our passion

Hello Jason! Nice to see you again from back in the old dial up days.
Glad you are well!