My mother who put makeup on me and dressed me in a girl's Japanese kimono several times at age 3 or4; caught me in my room with one of her slips at age 10. She screamed at me asking what was wrong with me, and did I want her to take me to a "head doctor".
About 6 years later, when I was trying to decide what costume to wear to work at my part-time supermarket job; (We were expected to wear a costume at Halloween) My mother says: "Why don't you dress up like a girl?"WHAT!!??!!
I thought: "Doesn't she remember what she wanted to do with me when it was MY idea to wear girl's clothes!?!?" I didn't follow her advice- there were one or two cute checkout girls at work who I'd been "checking out"; and there was no way I would want them to think I was anything but straight.
As for my mother's original threat- I'm proud to say that it kept me from ever even THINKING about wearing female clothes again! That's right- I don't have to think about it any more- I just DO it!
