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I am the youngest of three boys and my mother told me that her pregnancy with me was different she carried me high in the womb and my brothers were carried low and at the doctors they told her that I was a girl cause my heart beat was that if a female so they expected a girl.
She doesn?t know about my cross dressing now.
I was supposed to be a boy….only had a boy name picked out…..James Edward .
Surprise
My mother wanted girls, everyone knew it, I have 3 siblings, all girls.
My mother wanted a girl. She even had a girl's name picked out for me but no boy's name.
When my father was dying, he would tell me things he usually would not talk about. I showed him a picture of my daughter and asked my dad if he knew who it was. He replied it was me in a dress.
He told me several times that until I reached preschool age mom would dress me and treat me as a girl. Mom told me she always wanted a girl, told me the name she picked out for a girl, said that people mistook me for a girl and that she was upset when they had to cut my hair.
I am the third of four boys. Mom wanted a girl so badly. I too was told that I was supposed to be a girl. Our neighbor brought out the needle and thread to do an old wives tale of how the needle would spin. She was so hopeful. Then my kid brother came a few year later. He too was supposed to be the "chosen" one. Ooops mom another boy. She once offered to dress me as a gilr for halloween as I didn't have any other thing for the event. I went balistic saying that was so aweful. I guess she never knew why I blew up at her the way I did. I guess it hit too close to home for me and I regret not taking the opportunity to do so.
I have an older brother nearly 11 years older than me, when i was young i walked on my tip toes and my mother often said i should have been a girl. Little did she know?
All these answers make me think................... hmmm. Oh well too late to ask and to care too much. My mom was great.
Similar story here. My parents were 100% sure they were having a girl. My mom said her entire pregnancy was way more like when she had my older sister than for any of my brothers (I was #5). They were so sure, they had no male names picked out for me. My mom stayed in the hospital for almost a week after I was born. A nurse finally suggested my name to could complete my birth certificate so they could take me home. I won't say that's why I crossdress but the circumstances may have contributed.
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Originally Posted by Jane G
My mom also wanted a girl. Her first child was a girl, and she wanted another; she herself was the eldest of three girls, no boys, and she didn't really know what to do with a boy. Plus, she and dad had a free apartment (landlord took my father as a sort of superintendent of the small 4 family house, already knew my dad, plus dad was the custodian of the public school across the street) so having another girl would have fit with their living arrangement well.
When very young,in order to save money, mom dressed me in my older sister's hand me down clothes, too. Even sewed some nice red and blue thread into her old underpants to make them resemble my dad's Fruit of the Loom briefs, but I knew what they were. She stopped eventually, and never said a word about it again.
But I later found out more once I was older, and spoke with my aunt about a lot of the unusual things I had learned about mom over the years.
Not all mothers are good ones.