I'm wondering how many others are in a DADT situation, go out in public very little or not at all and would participate more if they didn't feel so intimidated? Love you all but as someone in a DADT living in a more rural setting I can't wrap my mind around crossdressers who feel compelled to dress and present publicly full time. In my mind a crossdresser ought to be able to turn it off long enough to go run errands or run to the hardware store in the middle of a project without stopping to get fully dressed. This forum has been a great place and I have learned a lot but I'm thinking there has be be many who for whatever reason, DADT, or whatever are limited in how often they can dress and have to remain under the radar for family, career or what have you. To be honest about it before I found this forum I thought the vast majority of crossdressers operated in stealth and their default presentation would be drab.
What do others think who are DADT, restricted in what they are able to do or have to refrain from dressing as often as they'd like? As someone who lives under a DADT arrangement I'd feel a lot less intimidated and inadequate here if I saw more who share my circumstances. It seems to me that the crossdresser section is dominated by those who push the line between crossdresser and something more. No offense intended to anyone, I just wish sometimes that I could engage in a discussion with others in similar circumstances who understand and can relate to each other. Seems half the time I'll comment and I get chastised by someone who lives 24/7 en femme for not walking out of a fifty year marriage just so I can sit in the recliner in a dress instead of drab. Seems like there have to be others in a similar predicament on here.