WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]

I intentionally got an E prescription, but by the time the prescription was filled, dissociation made me feel like I was just a different person again and I was numb to the idea of taking them, so I was just taking it because the previous me thought I should. So I took it absentmindedly for a little bit (but that was only like days, not months).

Anyways, its 4chan, so obviously its fake and gay™.

Are you here?

I think I personally have an aversion to live-action partly because trying to avoid looking at people because of self-denial. IRL, that’s easy to avoid, but you can’t really watch a show without watching it. Can’t say I’ve heard others express similar reasons though, but I supposed there’s a reason why “I want to be a cute anime girl” is such a popular webtoon (relevant panel).

Seems like that would be pretty hard to do? Guess I could try doing that next week though? Not in my skin of course. I’m terrified of the needle, but that’s not a concern that seems realistic without some extreme circumstance, like a car suddenly busting though the wall and hitting you mid-injection.

Congrats on the first one! I wish you many more successful stabbings! Or slow pushing needle through skin if that’s more your style.

That’s just how it is? Someone else mentioned DIY, but that’s how it works via prescription as well.

Also, as someone whose done injections of an unrelated medication (not insulin either) in a hardware store bathroom without alcohol wipes, there are far shadier places to be doing injections.

How so? Seems less dangerous than auto injectors people use for other medicines. Autoinjectors are less pleasant for self-use (but more pleasant when using on others - granted I never tried using a syringe on someone else, but I don’t know if I even could outside a serious emergency).

The point is, therapy and behavioral changes are good. But they have limits. Don’t rule out medication, just trust the doctor to know their shit. Also advocate for yourself if the doctor is too cautious. Mine was worried about stimulants and my blood pressure at my age and (lack of) cardiovascular health. It hasn’t been a problem at all

I haven’t talked to a doctor. Scheduling an appointment is the first obstacle, but I intend to try to get medicine soon™. My blood pressure and HR are generally low, so I’m not too worried about stimulants.

eta: •dude is officially a gender neutral term btw

Putting this disclaimer generally comes across as much more combative and much more like intentional misgendering than simply using words like “dude” and “guy” in gender neutral ways.

While that’s not really an option for such surgeries since its tissues are used generally, some people do get dildos that are replicas of their dicks before getting the surgery, so that’s a viable option!

Sending invoices sucks 😞

Ita been known I saw ADHD since I was a like a toddler, but never have tried any medicines for it because my mom was strongly against such (and the doctor was wrong with their prediction that I would struggle in school). But invoices are a thing over the past couple years that have been making me want to try…

I learned from the best at being in denial! Still would prefer people being in denial like this and get the treatment they want even if they have to justify it in weird ways. Its easier to think something like “I want to switch hormones” than it is to answer abstract questions like “what is a gender and what is mine if I have one?”

Step 1 is really hard sometimes. Going ahead to step 2 can be helpful for finishing step 1. Also, just because you’re trans doesn’t mean you want to be a woman. So you can finish step 1 and admit you are some flavor of trans, but still not know what your end-goals are or if HRT will help you get there and choose to start HRT as a way of figuring out.

Someone taking it who is benefiting from taking it results in you thinking we need to increase restrictions in the clear market?

As an ace-spec thing that has bled more often than I probably should have (not periods or self-harm), cuts aren’t something that really get my attention. Like, blood isn’t even flowing.

I assumed the shoulder-angels tend to reflect one’s inner-self, so I was thinking this is more appropriate for someone who is bigender than bisexual.

Adderall deployment proved that tit wasn’t a type after all.

Was at a gay leather bar recently that had Halloween decor and it included a pumpkin with a peculiarly sized hole. One of the people I went with of course had to make a joke about it to me. I wonder if the people who set that up know about the trans meme…

Non-electric

I have like 4 sets so I can do a full load while still having some on my bed. Have two little cubes to separate flat and fitted sheets.

Granted, I also generally take off the old ones in the morning to force me to put new ones on in the evening. Only like 10-20% of the time do I end up just putting a flat sheet or blanket down to lay on instead.

Doesn’t everyone keep clothes around just in case of sudden TS?

Federation is less friction imo. If you want to message someone who has a signal account, you have the friction of making yet another account to message them. If you then want to message someone who uses whatsapp, you need to make yet another account to message them. Etc, etc. That seems far worse than the awkwardness of trying to interact with microblog activitypub platforms within threadiverse activitypub platforms. Granted, you still have multiple federation standards (ie: email, activitypub, matrix) that don’t directly interact at all (although that might be for the best).

With federated platforms, you can message anyone using the same federation standard. Unfortunately, there’s more than one, so you need an email address to message anyone else who uses email regardless of whether they’re icloud or google or aol or self-host. But you can’t email someone using activitypub or matrix directly. And even within activitypub, its far from seamless to interact between different parts (piefed/mbin/lemmy all work pretty well together, but interactions between more different parts because more awkward).