Thinking about how at some point after my brother moved out, my mom moved her stuff into the "kid's bathroom" to turn it into the "girl's bathroom" with my sisters and I now had to share a bathroom with my dad in the "boy's bathroom" and how I was sad about that.
#therewerenosigns
One of my formative #therewerenosigns moments in my youth was reading a sci-fi story and blam, a guy gets turned into a centaur girl, and he's happy with it because he was in a wheelchair before.
"I, too, would like to turn into a centaur girl," I thought, though I had no words for why yet.
Memory unlocked: I had pompoms as a kid. #ThereWereNoSigns
When I was a “cis” “man” my character had to wear a dress (oh no!) and run in heels (oh dear!) and the cis women in the cast were immediately surprised at how readily I could run confidently in them.
Anyway lol #ThereWereNoSigns
Posing with my father-in-law and trying to match his manliness... and looking queer af
Posing with some trees I just cut down and trying to show I accomplished something manly... and looking queer af
Posing with toy dragons and a cardboard horned helmet and trying to look some kind of warlord... and looking queer af
I find it freaking hilarious that any time I tried to look manly pre-transition I just came across as queer af #ThereWereNoSigns
When I was a child, my folksy grandfather told me to eat something because it would “put hair on my chest”. I was terrified. I refused to eat.
#therewerenosigns
Thinking back on seeing this moment (for real in the game) 10 years ago and just busting down weeping. But yeah #ThereWereNoSigns
When I was in high school I wrote a short story about a boy who slowly turned into a girl without warning and was studied by doctors who couldn’t explain it. They secretly wanted it to happen but had to pretend they hated it.
I did this for an English class. On purpose.
#therewerenosigns
Good god tho thinking back to creative writing classes. All my fiction was from the perspective of a shitty boy who sucked and didn’t deserve peace and was cruel to everyone around.
#thereWereNoSigns #dysphoriaIsSomethingOtherPeopleHaveNotMe
So the last time I was swimming, the year began with a 19.
I always hated my body. FUNNY THAT. #therewerenosigns
I knew about #trans people as a young teenager (mid-late 90s). I sometimes day-dreamed that I was trans male, which is why I was in the all boys school. But I was gonna let my boobs grow and that's why I was the only one with boobs at this school.
20 years before I transitioned
#ThereWereNoSigns
I always asked for directions, and never felt shame about it.
#therewerenosigns
King for a Day!
#therewerenosigns 😂
My #TransGEM for the week: coming out to two of my friends who were very supportive. But who also were like, “Olympia, we know.”
I thought I was at least somewhat passing as a cis man out in the world!!?
(Affirming and yet somehow concerning?)
#TransJoy #GEM #ThereWereNoSigns
Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a kid.
(I wanted to be a centaur lady from one of these books. #therewerenosigns)
My mom used to scold me for "thinking like a woman" and "being too sweet" and expressing my feelings "like a girl" as much as she did me wanting long hair or ear piercings or wearing pink. #therewerenosigns
😅😆😁🏳️⚧️
If you see this, post your fave character in ALL of #StarTrek.
#therewerenosigns 🏳️⚧️
I so didn’t understand at the time why he wanted to go back to being a guy, it didn’t make sense to me. I had the same issue with Ranma 1/2. #ThereWereNoSigns
PS: [squeaky cat voice] It’s a job. 🤷♀️
Here, have some Siouxie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6nX8qvrY_8
You're welcome.
Gad, she's magnificent. When I was young I found her utterly mesmerising for some reason.
#ThereWereNoSigns
i wonder if my parents ever noticed that instead of hiding like Playboy or Hustler under my mattress, I had a stash of Cosmo and Redbook
#ThereWereNoSigns
Spannend auch: Wie viele Schülerinnen bei mir kommentiert haben dass sie mit mir gut über Männer reden können...
#ThereWereNoSigns
