Published on 12, July, 2020
What has helped you?
Age? I'm 26 but I feel older and younger at the same time.
I want to go back to how I was prior to my teenage years. I've internalised a lot of not very nice things. I'm working through it in therapy.
It's weird. I don't care what people think about my (somewhat uncool) interests but I do care what they think about my appearance and personality.
I do want people to like me but I will admit to taking that and running a mile.
Ear defenders. I couldn't care less what people think of me unless they're yelling it at me in the street. Ear defenders, used in combinations with earphones and music, block a lot of that.
Transitioning also reduced the yelling a lot, from several times a day to a couple of times a month since I started to get some facial hair coming in.