WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

Lots of small paragraphs at least :D Blocks of long text without any paragraphs are scary…

Autistic people tend to infodump as well.

Because you wish you had them, I guess? Idk. I never did it, but it seems like a common meme that eggs often try to hide their bodies without realizing they’re trans.

I was really dense in other ways, so its not really surprising to me other would do things like that.

If it can hide boobs, it can hide the lack of them :)

It’s like “what would I have done if this didn’t exist”?

I got LASIK because of the worry about what I would do if I didn’t have glasses. At least laser hair removal doesn’t require continuous upkeep. Shaving, otoh, is dependent on having the tools to do it. Glad you got over the brainworms!

Making permanent changes seems like something to reasonably get anxious about. I got really excited about HRT, for example, when I first got a prescription, but was fairly anxious about starting when I actually got it. I’d expect laser would be similar.

Sisters accidentally putting time pressure on their sibs to transition. 😠 ❤️ In my case, it was a baby expected in November. I just want to come out before then cause no want to be an uncle. No clue on when they plan to have a wedding yet…

Best of luck!

There’s Guilty Gear Strive with Bridgett. Not sure how much story is actually in-game though and Bridgett is just one of many characters.

There’s animes with trans or gender queer characters, but they almost universally are problematic to an extent (authors sometimes refused to acknowledge they’re trans and some of the fans will deny it, for example). So don’t know if I can give any strong recommendations. If you want to watch them anyways, feel free to ask.

down with cis

50kg would probably be pretty underweight for my height. 🤔 I’d be very happy with being under 80kg (which would put my BMI in the “healthy” range). Doubt I’ve been that light since I was at least within a couple inches of my current height. Haven’t been very good at losing weight and keeping it off…

For me, I wouldn’t say it was the first. Think things like “I don’t identify as a guy, but I’m technically cis” to “I’m not cis, but I’m not trans either” would be earlier cracks.

Wouldn’t make much sense if I keep my name though. And even if I did change names, I still sorta think I’d want my mom (the one which originally named me) to pick it out. 😭 Would be fun to be able to say though.

Any idea what it hurt your throat? Like, are you doing something weird to force it or just not used to it?

I think I’ve spent so many years attempting to mimic the voices in music I listen that the only time I’ve had soreness from doing a specific voice was when I spent like an hour singing along to a very autotuned-sounding album and trying to mimic the electronically-added buzziness. Which falls into the “doing something weird to force it” category. Had to use the lower range of my voice for the next day or two while my vocal cords recovered from that. 🤕

Also was very hoarse after going to a Laura Jane Grace concert, but that seems like a normal and expected outcome.

Hopefully its been improving. Do you plan to get it tested soon?

I’m often confused by whether something I’m experiencing is pain or not - hard to tell often. Never tried laser, so no clue how bad that is. But yeah… no shame in crying. The idea that crying is embarrassing is bad.

Made it to the front page of Most Comments on All!

I wonder if we can get the words “Elon” and “Musk” banned on Xitter if we just keep using them derogatorily.

But if we make it to 1230, it’ll make it into the top 20 lemmy posts of all time I think, which would put it on the first page when sorting by most comments (at least for my instance?)

I was already really uncomfortable using my voice around other people when I’m putting effort into my voice, so a lot of what I have been doing has been squeezing the practice into periods of time where I’m alone

The only thing close to practice I do alone is singing during my commute to/from work. And I’m not good at singing.

OTOH, my work is basically entirely talking to people, so I do at generally try to avoid having that sorta raspy sound (I don’t think raspy is the word I’m looking for, but close enough). Also, I sometimes accidentally slip into a “customer service” sorta voice and that for whatever reason happens to be quite high pitched I think? A child laughed at my voice being “tiny” compared to the deep voice of the person I was reacting to because of that.

Hearing recordings (or feedback in meetings) is far worse than hearing my own voice directly imo.