When you keep expecting an irritable mood swing to hit you at any time.
Autistic, Trans, Gay, What Else You Got?
When you keep expecting an irritable mood swing to hit you at any time.
When it had been the case, with your birth name, that people want to call you by a nickname. Doesn’t matter how often you introduce…
When you try hiding from the inevitable 2am bout of hunger.
When you’re still getting used to your ever-deepening voice, and you have a moment of “Who the hell just hit THAT pitch?”
When your gut officially decides that it’s no longer a fan of candy or the super-sweet, but you gotta have SOMETHING for dessert. So you…
When it’s evident your voice is still higher in pitch on the phone due to repeated “she’s” in reference to you, and now two instances…
When you feel official walking into the courthouse to hand in your name-change petition form.
When your voice is progressively getting lower, but your head is still more used to a higher pitch, so you catch yourself a few times…
When you officially schedule your top surgery for July 30th, a hair sooner than your ballpark guess of August, and this pleases you.
When you try hitting a high note you know you’ve sung before, and literally NO SOUND comes out of your mouth.