For those who didn't experience traditional "signs", how did you accept that you're trans?

Built up til I couldn’t do it anymore. I kept thinking “it can’t be because I was a little girl!” Not all the time, but sometimes, I was a fucking princess.

But it was about my body more than my personality. Puberty sucked. I wore baggy pants and sweatshirts every day. I was jealous of boys. I was so physically dysphoric I knew the second I learned what sex was I was not going to do that which is probably normal for a kid, but I never wavered from that for a second not even at my horniest not even with myself, even through high school and college, which is not normal. But I was about to disregard that and never be happy because I didn’t mind girly things when I was very young. That was just a lot of suffering for no reason.

I can imagine if I’d been born right doing all the same stuff I did, it wouldn’t be so weird. Fucking around with boys on the playground hitting each other with sticks or pretending we’re Pokémon and throwing dirt at each other but then I’d join my cousins playing dolls and my dad would probably be a little stressed lol. Not as much as when I said “I want ribbons so I can be a r I b b o n d a n c e r!” I’m sure it’s not that uncommon to be a bit girly as a little boy.

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