Do you ever feel like your a freak show

[Christina Horton]

No NEVER Why? :canada:

[Kerrie Sifton]

Well if you are seeing them on each aisle and they are obviously noticing you... how about direct action... a friendly hello and how are you three doing today...
maybe they thought you might have been the girls father and were just checking you out? lol

[LeslieBird]

I get that sometimes, and hate it. Other times I feel accepted completely -- maybe passing or maybe people don't care. But the thing is I can never tell what reaction I will get.

[AliceJaneInNewcastle]

The very first time I went out dressed in the daytime, I felt paranoid. I was sure that everybody saw me as a freak. Then I stepped back into the closet, rethought my passability, worked very hard on my presentation and then started again.

When I started going out again, I still felt paranoid but within the first couple of dozen outings, I realised that almost nobody took any notice at all.

I subsequently realised that I'm more uncomfortable shopping for femme things while in boy mode. That's now when I feel like I'm being looked at as a freak.

The overall result is that I'm now far more comfortable going out shopping dressed than in boy mode.

Alice

[foxxigirlxoxo]

I'm a young cd that has been working very hard on my wardrobe after several purges, and still don't have a decent wig. Tonight I was driving around and said what the hell, I'm going out. I pulled into a rest-stop/market that is open 24 hours and just got out of my car and smoked a cigarette. I passed a few people that surprisingly didn't even give me a second look. then when sitting on a bench wearing knee high boots, a denim skirt, and a cute little top, I was startled by a man in his late 20's and I instantly panicked that he was going to beat me to a pulp because I looked like a freak. He hit on me! and not a creapy come on either! it was incredible. So I guess my point is even when you think people are looking at you like a freak, you can be very surprised....

After that I decided to get really "ballsy" and put on my halloween costume which is a very sexy Snow White with a corseted top, short short skirt and 5" knee high red patent boots and went in to buy a drink... luckily it's 2 days after Mardi Gras and people actually didn't look too shocked by my outfit. Sorry for the novel, it was just amazing and I have no one to tell since I'm hidden way back in the closet. So I posted.

[SammyCD]

Hi everyone..you will have to excuse any Forum Rules that I break as I am still a newbie to posting on forums -

It makes me so angry that we are made fun of, laughed , ridculed, sometimes almost treated like medeival lepers !! just because we look different.

A girl can wear a guys track suit, sweatshirt, suit etc and no-one cares in fact quite the opposite...''The latest thing from Paris'' - a boiler suit!


Just because we want to dress ''different'' wear something nice, comfortable, that feels good and not the usual heavy clothes, thick jumpers, t-shirts etc

We are supposed to be a modern society???? Look at the change in attitude to lesbian and gay people?????

We are supposed to be a diverse world where everyone is equal and treated on equal terms.

So why cant I go to my local ASDA/WALMART store without being stared at??

Why cant I go into La Senza and ask to be measured without sniggers from the teenage staff??

''Look that Guy over there is wearing womens fitness pants and trainers (sneakers) and a vest top '' I am wearing them because they are comforatable, cheaper and the sneakers are mens Sketchers that look like a womens shoe and its 80 degress outside !!!

WE ARE HUMAN AND HAVE FEELINGS !!!!!!!

[tamarav]

[SIZE=4]Sorry for your encounter with such rude people.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=4]Many years ago I met a Drag Queen who carried a magic marker and some 8x10 photos of herself. when she go confronted by people like that she just whipped out a picture, autographed it, and handed it to the open-mouthed gawker.[/SIZE]
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[SIZE=4]She told me to always act like the star, people were privledged to see me. To this day, I just smile and nod or wave and go on. Haven't gotten to the point of carrying photos and autographing them yet....[/SIZE]

[SammyCD]

Welcome to the site, Sammy.

I think I've spotted your mistake -- you're dressing like a girl from Yorkshire who shops at Wallmart. Now, try dressing like a girl from London who shops at Dior. Then if people do stare at you, you'll know it's because you're gorgeous.

I cant always wear Dior...sometimes just need chill out:D

[KateSpade83]

Be careful! There are "possessed" people out there who can always sense a man in drag, even if you are the most beautiful crossdresser!

[Tina B.]

Sorry Sammy, but where I come from even a gay person will get stared at if he/she is not dressed like the rest of the people around them, Or teen boys with purple Mohawks, or over weight girls with to much skin showing. Life can get drab and boring when every things the same, so anything different is fun and exciting, to look at, or talk about, that's just life.
If you are going out, you just have to get tough enough to say I don't care, because a man in a dress is different, and somebody is going to notice. The only control you have is how you react to it.
Tina
Being the sensitive type, I choose to be a house plant, and stay indoors!

[AKAMichelle]

Being different always attracts attention. I still feel uncomfortable when young children are around. I never want to cause a problem for them.