Want to know some of the weird and wrong things you believed back then. I used to believe a lot of dumb things, some of them were dumb in a funny way, others in a hurtful right wing way, but many of those things were wrong and pretty dumb looking back.

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[–] lwhjp@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

The main misconception that stopped my egg cracking was that trans people "always knew" they had the wrong body, whereas I, clearly male (look, I've got a dick and everything) merely wanted really badly to be a girl. Totally different, ah well.

Also I was really strongly opposed to cosmetic stuff: surgeries, tattoos, piercings etc. Like, easily deal-breaker level. I always thought it was kind of a weird hangup and I should talk to someone about it, but I'd get panic attacks whenever I thought too hard about it so kind of let it be. Turns out the reason I was so obsessed with body modification was because I wanted to change mine and I was jealous of anyone else who could.

And just the general misogyny that comes from growing up in an almost exclusively male environment.

[–] dipshit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 12 hours ago

I had that too, I also just didn't know just how badly I wanted to be a girl until I met a really good friend who I learned was trans (and was also in the right state of mind not to immediately push her away), questioned my own gender, then experimented with she/her pronouns on myself and learned yup totally want to be a girl, really badly too. I also doubted myself a bit since I'd heard that you need dysphoria, but that didn't last long because I realized my chest dysphoria very soon after that.