Gaw! I'm there!!!

[Anne Bonny]

I think I feel better being able to be who I am, knowing psychiatry tells me there is nothing wrong with me, the sense of myself that colors all of who I am female inside. Dressing much more and just dressing...like in clothes....that are made for who I am and being more open about it really is a good thing...a boost in my confidence so that knowing I am a good person...I am prepared to defend myself! To be positive...and if I desire to dress male...it's alright...it's about being comfortable. Made a new contact through the psychologist...someone who is as I am, about my age and who's wife has Alzheimer's...we have a lot in common and are just alike it is amazing! All the pressure is off and I am comfortable just being able to be who I am without feeling torn or wrong because of it! Being who I am inside after nearly a lifetime is really wonderful.

It feels very nice! Just to be able to live and to simply be who I am. To release feeling it is wrong to be who I am as I have my whole life! To be more open and confident and to stand up for myself... what I wear reflects and is made for exactly who I am inside whatever I am wearing and am comfortable in wearing as I remove the "gender" when I choose what I want to wear...If I am comfortable in something that is considered acceptable because of my body, fine and if it is because of who I am inside and am thrilling to the fact that I am finally wearing what I like because it is and has always been right for me then ...it is like a dream come true.

I am living more openly, I am buying things that I need...for real and am not settling for anything less but for exactly the look that I want! Have new sandals from Greece they are wonderful. Have items coming because while I have a nice full wardrobe it should have in it every item that I should have and will need as a woman! And it is with a very discerning eye as I buy that which will enhance and will work on my body so that I look nice. I am also free to be a man...it is all about being absolutely comfortable as I begin to venture out I am free to go get the mail, take out the garbage, go running, a little skittish about going to the psychiatrist but I have made purchases putting together the outfit I have in mind for that...Sandals or lady topsiders, Bermuda shorts, an open neck blouse with vertical blue and white stripes and a pretty set of beads along with my purse, make up and hair styled...it has some growth to go to get back to the length in my avitar but probably within a month of there. Make up...classy, and fits exactly with what any woman my age would wear going to see her physician as well as being right for me...as a guy it is the female equivalent of that...casual but classy and smart!

[KimberlyS]

Glad it is going well with the psychologist and you are growing in your acceptance of yourself.

kimberlys cd
joe in a skirt

[Anne Bonny]

Thanks. Yeah...I think I am making it this time around ... still a work in progress.

[KimberlyS]

... still a work in progress.

Life is a work in progress. Keep up the good work.

kimberlys

[Anne Bonny]

I am thrilled, happy, relaxed and more confident in who I am and it is much more full time and beginning to feel like my new normal...I am pleased with myself and it is as if something has fallen into place that is as it should be and as it will be now for the rest of my life. I do not kid myself but I am progressing to where I should always have been.