Abt switch
The Abt switch is a kind of railway switch used on funiculars (inclined cable railways) that doesn't have any moving parts. It allows two cars to pass each other going uphill/downhill while sharing the same tracks. While most train switches rely on physically moving a section of track so the train goes one way or the other, the abt switch doesn't move at all. Instead each carriage has a grooved wheel which makes it turn left or right at a junction by sticking to the track on one side.
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Guy who I encounter like once a month sees me. First thing he says "is your chest large or do you have titties?"
I'm not ready to stop boymodding. I've officially entered the twilight zone. I've wasted too much time doing 0 voice training or practice with makeup/clothes.
I still boymode even when I made an entirely new account whose name implying I would stop
Fr, I don't want to be super fem, I just want to feel comfortable.
First of all that's unhinged as fuck of that guy. I want to believe it's his really dudebro way of asking you your pronouns.
I haven't really voice trained, at least not enough to do my new voice in public on demand. I also dress a lot less femme than I used to most days. Usually cargo pants or jeans, a cami and t-shirt or if I feel like it, just a cami. And it's just really comfy to do so, even in public. I would've put money on never transitioning because I'd never feel ready, just because it's how everything else was going for me at the time. I don't know how I summoned the strength to start HRT while feeling so unprepared, but I'm so thankful to whatever part of me just kept pushing me through it. And everyone who encouraged me.
I don't know what exactly your situation is and if this is viable, but I just kinda started dressing androgynous and sometimes even femme, and coming out to whoever I was most comfortable with at the time one by one.
Yeah he talks like he is an edge lord from 2013.
Unfortunately, it isn't.
I've sort of been doing this as well
Many of my clothes are tattered, I need to buy new ones. A new vial of E is arriving and my boobs have grown bigger.
All the signs are gathering together. But I have a massive complex about wearing girls clothes.
They are a girl's clothes when you own them you know
I dont dress super femme day to day, lots of graphic tee and pants (usually scrub bottoms cause Im working later). I do find women's cuts fit better and I do have a nice hip to waist ratio
... I never even considered this
You have a knack for saying very wise things that seem so simple and dumb in hindsight. Shows you've been there. Thanks for being a wise "elder" <3
being shitty and making this about me
Low key the thing I'm most scared of happening and probably what will happen in another year or so to me. Fuck I hate thinking about that.spoiler
No worries, you aren't being shitty. Adding on your own takes is the point of a comment thread.But yeah, having your stealth be pierced through can be quite scary. Buy everything about this process is scary when one does it with 0 support from other irl people.
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Thank youYea ngl I'm not sure if scary is a strong enough word. I do not want that to happen to me.
Being alone irl sucks bad :meow-hug: spoiler si Low key I think about killing myself to avoid that phase a lot, I just hate the thought of that so much, fuck. :::
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I think it is inevitable. There is a limit to how much I can keep myself in an isolated bubble. How can I call myself a socialist if I don't even socialise
I just wish there was a way for me to unpack my trauma and self-loathing
I know that I can be a pretty cool gal, when I get my rare moments of peace and clarity.
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Yea it is, tbh as it gets closer I am definitely going to be talking about suicide and hating being trans a lot more then I already doReal