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- Jun 13, 2020
About a month ago I looked up my old best friend from high school, and was very sad to see she jumped on the troon train.
I'm happily engaged now, but back then I had the biggest crush on her, which adds another level of mindfuckery.
I tried reconnecting with her on twitter but the distance is too vast now after all that time. I know she doesnt want to hear from me anymore, for good reason (I had ghosted due to personal issues) but fuck, man.
I want to shake her and ask her what the hell is going on. She always was ambiguous with her presentation, why did she dive off the deep end? Was it that she went to college, and I hadn't? Is that where the gulf between our views opened up? I'm still rather young and therefore naive, so for some reason in my mind I thought the person I once knew so well would still mostly be there. I never expected this level of insecurity from her.
I never expected the self assured, intelligent, sly person I had always looked up to was dealing with the same demons that fuck ups like me hung around. Or did she pick them up somewhere after I was gone? Or, dreadfully, was it from me? And me running away left her all alone with the bullcrap I spouted back then?
It feels like another game like the ones she used to play classmates with. She managed to convince someone for about a full day that it's normal to sleep with your eyelids open, for example.
I simply can't wrap my head around it. From the perspective I had of her as a teen, it always appeared like she had everything. Loving parents and family, no financial worries, talent and skill. I'm just an outsider now, however it looks to me she is poised there with a lit match labelled he/they, ready to burn it all down.
But, really, who am I to say anything? I haven't been a friend in years, and clearly the person I knew is gone. My gripes are worthless and not needed.
Out of all of this, I'm sat here weighing the consequences of my decisions. Where would we be if I continued onward as who I was back then, and maintained friendship? Instead of the choice I had made to cut it all off, run away and start from 'what I needed' rather than 'what I wanted'- if I could have been mindful enough to consider not just what I needed, but also what my friends needed? To share the experiences that opened my own eyes, the ones that prompted me to clean house with my prior idealogies?
All these considerations from finding an old and distant friend is trans. The amazing strength of those of you here sharing your stories of near and dear loved ones heading down this path is only more pertinent.
I'm happily engaged now, but back then I had the biggest crush on her, which adds another level of mindfuckery.
I tried reconnecting with her on twitter but the distance is too vast now after all that time. I know she doesnt want to hear from me anymore, for good reason (I had ghosted due to personal issues) but fuck, man.
I want to shake her and ask her what the hell is going on. She always was ambiguous with her presentation, why did she dive off the deep end? Was it that she went to college, and I hadn't? Is that where the gulf between our views opened up? I'm still rather young and therefore naive, so for some reason in my mind I thought the person I once knew so well would still mostly be there. I never expected this level of insecurity from her.
I never expected the self assured, intelligent, sly person I had always looked up to was dealing with the same demons that fuck ups like me hung around. Or did she pick them up somewhere after I was gone? Or, dreadfully, was it from me? And me running away left her all alone with the bullcrap I spouted back then?
It feels like another game like the ones she used to play classmates with. She managed to convince someone for about a full day that it's normal to sleep with your eyelids open, for example.
I simply can't wrap my head around it. From the perspective I had of her as a teen, it always appeared like she had everything. Loving parents and family, no financial worries, talent and skill. I'm just an outsider now, however it looks to me she is poised there with a lit match labelled he/they, ready to burn it all down.
But, really, who am I to say anything? I haven't been a friend in years, and clearly the person I knew is gone. My gripes are worthless and not needed.
Out of all of this, I'm sat here weighing the consequences of my decisions. Where would we be if I continued onward as who I was back then, and maintained friendship? Instead of the choice I had made to cut it all off, run away and start from 'what I needed' rather than 'what I wanted'- if I could have been mindful enough to consider not just what I needed, but also what my friends needed? To share the experiences that opened my own eyes, the ones that prompted me to clean house with my prior idealogies?
All these considerations from finding an old and distant friend is trans. The amazing strength of those of you here sharing your stories of near and dear loved ones heading down this path is only more pertinent.