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  • gaystyleJoker [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    hello gang, once again here to ask if anyone wants to sign up to make the mega and also claim my spot at the top of the comment pile

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    13 days ago

    I’m going to wear a skirt tomorrow, i’m going to do it. I’m gonna do it. I’m going to wear one and go into town and look at books. I’m going to browse at the thrift store and buy nothing. I’m going to wile away the day existing in the real world and not from behind the screen.

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    16 days ago

    Got casually she/her’d for the first and second time in the last few days, very exciting, also seems like B/C cups overrides being really tall (thank you padded sports bra)

  • PartysPuppyGirl [pup/pup's, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    16 days ago

    catgirl-flop if this is too much tell me and I’ll delete it, or mods just delete it. Know it doesn’t bode well that I’m venting here instead of getting help IRL, and yet here I am.

    SI, past suicide attempt, heavy depressing shit

    Realizing I only ever come to this site at my lowest with my no social support. Like I made this account to get advice about how to talk to friends about me trying to overdose the day before. Petty bourgeois parents won’t do shit to help, they hold my livelihood in their hands. If they decide to stop paying for my housing and insurance I’m fucked, too mentally fucked to hold a job, and even more fucked up without my depression meds that barley help. Just feels like I’ve wasted my life. Have had opportunities I never deserved given to me, and yet I couldnt handle a light course load in college, and amshattered mentally where I can barley stay alive mentally even with having my bills paid off. And even more fun, day after I tried to kill myself, parents randomly fly in and invite themselves to my days acting happy to see me and seemingly unaware of the tightrope I have to walk to make sure they think I’m happy and not depressed, instead of finding out my reality of deep depression and then cutting me off. Just don’t know what to do anymore

    • sodium_nitride [she/her, any]@hexbear.net
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      16 days ago

      virtual hug initiated

      You don’t need to worry about your “accomplishments”. They only mean something if they bring you happiness. If not having them gives you sadness, then forget about them.

      Don’t let college become a ghost in your head that you chase after. That’s what I did and it killed parts of me. Now I can brag to employers about how exploitable I am cause I’m in debt and have no friends.

      I know many people who come to college to waste their time and party. They are the ones really wasting their life. You are instead taking care of your life, you just need more effort for it than others.

    • lilypad [it/its, pup/pup's]@hexbear.net
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      16 days ago

      spoiler

      That tightrope walk is so hard… I hope theres some respite for you soon, even if its just some icecream and cuddling a plushie. Im sorry i have no advice (if i did i would be taking it doggirl-cry) but, well, youre heard and like i know what its like and it sucks. I keep applying for jobs but even if i get hired ill probably lose it to another mental health episode…

      Its tough out there, im glad you at least have here to vent to meow-hug

  • EstraDoll [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    17 days ago

    TRANSITION MILESTONE ACHIEVED:

    - RANDOM GUY IN PUBLIC STARTS FLIRTING WITH YOU -

    still kind of shook because it was so unexpected but uhh… now i know how the other girls feel when it happens. Blend of euphoria and ewphoria but i’m going with 85% euphoria and 15% ewphoria here

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    19 days ago

    Sometimes I see people joke about “genetically encoded cup size” but this is completely ignoring reaction norm. Your breasts are not genetically fated! They are historically contingent. It’s dialectical you see…

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        17 days ago

        What color you thinking of, way long ago when I had short hair I remember dying it blue but then afterward just having some streaks of blonde that looked cool. Honestly if it didn’t make me miserable I would have liked how my beard had streaks of red in it.

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      17 days ago

      millennials are a visually weird generation because some of us still have baby faces into our 30s but also some of us have graying hair before 30, and there’s a decent amount of overlap between the groups

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        17 days ago

        I know my nephew has it worse at 22 with way more streaks of white hair, idk how I’d describe my own face but I have been trying to lose weight and take care of my skin better. My face has been getting more angular recently but then I see a video of myself and go damn guess not.

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      16 days ago

      My mom was freaked out when she spotted my white hairs. I have a few, no streaks. They dont bother me but they really bothered her! I think to her the idea of her kid being old enough to have a few white hairs kinda put time into a different perspective.

      They’ve never bothered me though, Ive been asked at salons if I want them touched up. I could pluck em I guess at home. But I feel no emotional content towards them good or bad

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        18 days ago

        Yes, but this can be very difficult to do when you’ve never experienced love. Like, I’m still struggling with this myself, no matter how many times my girlfriend says she loves me, because I’m not used to this new feeling.

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        18 days ago

        yeah. i want to flirt with people but literally anything i do feels like i’m going too far. there is no “safe” area, i might as well be sexally harassing someone. this means i basically can’t flirt with anyone because anything is a bridge too far and idk what to do

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          18 days ago

          I dunno if your city has a gay bar or some trans t4t style event but usually people go to those to be flirted with.

          Do you feel locked up by anxiety and fear of rejection? Or is it a fear that you dont deserve to come on to someone because you think trans people shouldn’t because of some possibly internalized transphobia? If you’re worried about coming across as creepy, the fact that you care how you come across puts you way ahead of creeps

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            18 days ago

            I fear that anything I say is going to be followed with a “stop talking to me creep” and is too far, unwarranted, and just creepy. So the only time I ever say anything “flirty” it just comes off as 100% friendly and only slightly plausibly flirting

    • Wmill [they/them, fae/faer]@hexbear.net
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      18 days ago

      why the fuck does every form of flirting feel like sexual harassment

      Big mood, I think a lot of it is just testing boundaries and backing off if you get a no or maybe. I think all my crushes went nowhere mostly because I kept people at arms length by being polite vs warm. A good way to get started is probably bullshitting with friends not necessarily flirting but more ripping on each other like good friends do, if you go too far with a friend you apologize and talk through it.