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[info]luxemburger
Ughhhhhh.

The one thing that's sucked about all of this gender exploration is that it's led me out of denial about how uncomfortable I am in my body. And not all, or even most, of the discomfort has to do with its "femininity". It's actually just a lot of... general discomfort. Like to the point where I wonder if I'd still be questioning my gender if I hadn't put on as much weight in the last year as I have.

So, like, I haven't really wanted to be touched in a few weeks. In a way that goes beyond just not being in the mood. I've been actively turned off/repulsed by the idea of being touched. And by the idea of doing the touching, too, though not as strongly or consistently.

But the thing that sucks most about it is that there are nights like tonight where I still want beyond belief, and I'm laying here in front of my laptop reading those fucking epic Effy/Emily and Effy/Katie fics that have eaten my brain for the past, like, two months and having the skin of my hands (my entire body) ache to pull someone into me and kiss them, wet and intense like the rain coming down outside the open window, until they were shaky and shaking in my lap. Kiss them until they couldn't sit up, until they had to lay down. Completely lose myself in somebody else's mouth, in the knit of their fingers in the cloth of my shirt.

I can't stop thinking about it, thinking to the point of wanting to cry because it's almost enough to get me there, just thinking about it, but it's far enough away to feel like I'll never get so there again, as silly as it sounds.

having the skin of my hands (my entire body) ache to pull someone into me and kiss them, wet and intense like the rain coming down outside the open window, until they were shaky and shaking in my lap. Kiss them until they couldn't sit up, until they had to lay down. Completely lose myself in somebody else's mouth, in the knit of their fingers in the cloth of my shirt

Yes, yes, yes. So much yes to this.


Hmm, I'd be interested in hearing more about this if you cared to write about it - have you been able to sort through why you haven't wanted to touch (or be touched) in the last few weeks? I could ask more questions - because I'm genuinely curious - but I also don't want to pry, especially if this is still something you're contemplating, you may not feel in the mood to talk about it further.

Um. I have done some sorting, but honestly I think I sound like a very cliche therapy patient when I actually verbalize the various "why"s of it.

First of all I've been trying to shy away from saying that I'm "transitioning" because I feel like that implies there's some kind of end result, and I really don't anticipate that I'll ever "end" up anywhere. But I do identify a lot with the idea of being "trans", as in a state of fairly perpetual fluidity, even while maintaining a particular place on the spectrum or whatever. So. Anyway, that is almost a tangent, but I wanted to clarify that first.

So. Obviously coming out as trans has made me look a lot at my body. And I'm coming up with things I haven't looked too closely at before, like my relationship with food, and my lack of relationship with exercise (and the reasons for both of those), and some of the uglier feelings I have when I think about my sexual development (such as lingering feelings of relating way, way too well to incest survivors and general discomfort with ways I behaved in the past and the subconscious reasons that led me to do so). And it is just sort of overwhelming, really, and I have a lot more sorting to do before I can move past those things without resorting to denial, and I don't really know where to begin.

Too much of a response? I can't tell. You're not prying though. Did I answer your question or just bring up others?

Edited at 2009-07-08 04:39 am (UTC)


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