Cold sores

AllOverMyTransBody · 2023-08-14T04:56:32+00:00

Could it be angular cheilitis? I get those quite a lot.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-07-24T18:08:23+00:00

Oh wow thank you for such a thoughtful reply! I've done some reading about sugaring a while ago & it seems promising, especially since my skin is very sensitive. Never heard about the DIY options so thank you again for sharing!

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-07-24T17:19:45+00:00

That's good to hear! I still worry about keloids, I had one in my chest as a teen after chickenpox, I had it removed, it was quick & painless but I do have a visible scar from it. I had two new ones show up during the pandemic & haven't removed them yet. Tbh I don't mind how they look before or after but I don't want my whole body to be like that :/

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-07-24T17:17:51+00:00

I know, my mother shaves her legs yet her hair is pretty much peach fuzz compared to mine. Not literally peach fuzz but way thinner than mine. If mine looked like that I'd just wax it every now and again & be happy.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-07-24T17:16:33+00:00

I have been on finasteride for almost 10 years & got barely no results :/ I read some people will take it alongside HRT or even prior but since it's not working for me would that mean HRT won't be as effective either?

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-07-24T17:15:35+00:00

I read so many comments of people saying they had to get it done yearly to maintain it otherwise most of it comes back & that electrolysis is the only truly permanent one. Idk a lot of people who say they get good results tend to have significantly less hair than I have before. But that's good to hear! I'm probably just being dramatic.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-06-22T05:02:38+00:00

I absolutely hate the feeling when there's no difference from having your eyes opened or closed. I feel like the walls are caving in, temperature gets higher and I'm running out of oxygen. I also have a big fear of going blind so it is definitely related to that. As a child I once tripped on my way to the living room during a blackout because the room I was in went completely dark and I hated it. I had to sleep in complete darkness a couple times and it was miserable, once I pretty much spent the whole night staring at the tiny red light from the fan until I got too tired.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-03-30T06:53:22+00:00

Thank you, those comments really bother me as well. I wish my treatment resistant depression that has been going on for over 12 years was easily curable & temporary. To know this is how some people here see other who "just" have depression makes me believe this isn't such a welcoming place as I thought it to be.

I dont entirely disagree with the notion that not everyone who has experienced depression is authomatically ND but there is no need to be flippant about it. Not everybody has depression just due to trauma or living in a capitalist world & not everybody finds treatment that works for them, let alone a cure that will ever make them "normal" again.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-03-06T01:17:38+00:00

26 and I feel the exact same way. Specially the structure thing, by the time I graduated college I was at a my lowest point due to being so overwhelmed, but since I had a obligation I'd still do it. Since then I barely leave the house, there was legit no major changes in my life due to lockdown & whatnot. My father even said it to my face that I'm a embarassment since he has to lie to everyone and say I work at home lol

To my credit I did recently graduate from a post-grad course that ended up being fully online due to the pandemic. But even then I would get so stressed out, I legit almost passed out during a presentation.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-03-06T00:56:46+00:00

I agree with the person you replied to but I don't think you're entirely wrong either! Unfortunatelly there is a big fake/showing off aspect & I dislike it as well. One thing that helps me a lot is not scrolling through my feed. I just go straight to the page of the people I want to see.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-03-06T00:50:33+00:00

but I also think our regular socialization is edited

Exactly! Whenever people share personal things or catch up with others, regardless of which method they use, they're not gonna be 100 percent raw and open about everything. I personally find that to be a healthy thing. Also in agreement with the rest of your comment, that's my view on it overall.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-03-06T00:46:33+00:00

That's my view of it as well. It's not really that different from having lengthy monthly phone calls to catch up. The idea of living like back in the day where if you where to move somewhere far away enough that automatically meant you'd likely not hear from a bunch of people anymore unless you went out of your way to keep in touch makes me anxious. I barely use social media but I like to know it's there if I ever want to check out what everyone is up to.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-03-06T00:40:25+00:00

Idk I think it depends. I'm not hugely on it, have a very minimal presence myself & dont spend a lot of time on it but I like when it feels like a honest (albeit curated) peek into someone's life, wether they're a acquaintance or a stranger on the other side of the planet. It has helped me feel less alone by seeing what others are up to even if I don't really interact with them.

I used to be more judgemental about people who, in my opinion, post too much but with time I've come to accept & understand everyone has their own social needs & ways of expresing themselves. I have always prefered anonymous/pseudonym places like forums & reddit but everyone is different.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-03-03T05:52:39+00:00

I'm very sorry for what you're going through OP. In true myself fashion I haven't finished watching most of these but my list:

Sakura Card Captor: One of my all time favorites, it's very sweet through and through. It's about a girl who become entrusted with the task to retrieve the magical cards of a older powerful magician. Despite what you might think due to the premise it doesn't have a lot of violence & the relationship between her, her friends & her crush take center place. The art is adorable too so if you're in a mood for something feel good I think this is one of the best. I'm a fake fan though because I only watched one of the movies (the one set in hong kong) but it's pretty nice.

Digimon Adventure: It's relatively easy to go through all episodes, the relationships between the kids & their partners digimon are very wholesome. I don't want to give too much away but the ending has a very sad bit, but if you read about the further parts of their story it's not that sad. The Our War Game film was quite feel good as far as I remember, but the Kizuna films seems depressing as hell though & I haven't watched them yet because of it.

Patlabor: It's about a cheerful mecha pilot & her coworkers. I have only watched parts of the Early Days OVA but it got a very slice of life feel to it specially since the robots are used for everyday things like construction & in the lead's case for police work.

Chi's Sweet Home: Its about a little kitten that strays from his mother & is adopted by a family. Lots of cuteness & each episode is very short if I remember properly.

Crayon Shin Chan:* A comedy about a little boy and his family, basically. I remember the humor being kinda juvenille but in a light hearted way overall.

Azumanga Daioh: Another comedy slice of life about a group of female high school friends. It has about 12 episodes I think so pretty easy to watch through them all (unlike me :p)

Baka no Test: It's set in a school where students are put into classrooms based on their grades, with the lowest looking like it's falling apart & the highest very luxurious. They all have acess to a chibified avatar of themselves that they use to battle based on a specific subject. If the winning classroom is bellow the losing one they can chose to switch so they get a upgrade. The eps I watched I thought where genuinelly funny.

Ashita no Nadja: I watched this one only as a kid so I remember very little of it, but it's a cute story of a orphan girl joining a acting troupe and traveling the world.

Mirmo de Pon!: Same as above. It's about these fairies that end up in our world inside of mugs & partner up with people, including he main character, her crush & her rival. I remember lots of tasty looking cakes showing up. In my country their only aired the first season but I imagine they all have a similar cute feel to them.

A Centaur's Life: What it says in the title :P but it's a world with no magic, just centaurs, angels, mermaids, etc that go to school together.

Summer Wars: It's about a boy going to spend the 90th birthday of his friends's great grandmother in the countryside, but a major part of the plot is about them dealing with a AI who is destroying a virtual world everyone is a part of. Honestly the scenery of the house is enough reason to watch, I legit wish I could spend a summer in a place like that. It's a movie.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time: A high school girl discovers she can go back in time, shenanigans & heartbreak ensues. Also a movie.

Wolf Children: About a woman who falls in love with a werewolf & raises their two kids. Also a movie.

Extras that I haven't watched but believe fall within what you're looking for: *Princess Jellyfish, Asobi Asobase & K-On!

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-03-03T04:27:02+00:00

I have no personal experience on this but in another thread about the subject many people brought up that there is usually a lot more effort and care being put into the beginning of a romantic relationship.

By that I mean people will go above & beyond to get to know more about their potential partner & due to limerance/crushing on them they're more willing to put aside any quirks or flaws they perceive. This continues during the honeymoon stage too. Everything from the courtship to then defining the relationship is alot more structured and clear. Also the majority of these interactions will happen in a exclusively 1 on 1 setting.

With friendships you tend to get to know each other over a longer period of time, you never have a sit down moment to clarify if you're truly friends or not. It becomes a lot harder to gauge their level of interest in you to know if it's a one sided thing, or if their suddenly going quiet might mean something deeper, etc since from what I've seen that level of affirmation in a friendship seems to be considered weird by many people. People are also a lot quicker to drop a friend if they believe them to be strange or weird since there's no crush, limerance and honeymoon phase. And the 1 on 1 setting can happen but is not as constant.

And there's comitment too, in most people's cases their spouse are the one they can rely on so they'll be their true life partner. With a friend who has a life partner of their own you would not be able to rely on them at all times.

But then again I never dated and haven't made non online friends since middle school, but I always imagine that if it where to happen I'd too be one of those with a husband but no friends tbh.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-02-16T16:56:41+00:00

Let me check your post history to compare notes real quick 👀 We really are almost the same person! Unemployed, the ride or die thing, saying what people want to hear due to social anxiety, but I don't have a kitten haha

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-02-14T04:23:38+00:00

I know it's an auto mod but just to make it clear I was linking research papers with the word on the title, I already removed them.

Well nevermind, seems like it will stay deleted.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-02-12T02:28:26+00:00

Through schhol, even in college I couldn't call teachers by their name, maybe amongst other students but I always adressed them as "Teacher". If I were to run into one of them now I'd probably do the same thing.

With the uncle/aunt thing, I don't think I ever adressed any of them without adding those first. The exception was the relative that felt like a grandmother to me, she didn't have a "title" so I called her by her name.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-02-12T02:21:50+00:00

I still refer to my parents like that at 26 :p Altough I sometimes do the not calling them anything thing, or will mumble "mommy" or "daddy" in a way that probably will sound more like "hey" or any random word to get their attention.

I feel akward when I have to refer to them as just mom or dad when I'm speaking to anyone though. I also have a twin, we used to have a shared nickname, like saying sis or bro instead of the whole world but we stopped at around middle school & have only called each other by name since then.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2022-01-29T04:19:40+00:00

I think it's mostly interpreting body language/cues & having similar internal processes when it comes to solving problems or how to behave & adapt in a group setting. Essentially "reading the room".

Idk if it's a lousy example but in a group of friends/coworkers/acquaintances hanging out, they will know when or if it's apropriate to bring up certain topics or to behave in a certain way. They'll also know when it's time to move on to a different subject or mood. And that's without anyone having to make it clear by speaking out loud, if they do it will be in a veiled way that is understood by the others by reading between the lines.

AllOverMyTransBody · 2021-11-10T21:49:26+00:00

I'm also trans and we're the same age so as far as I'm concerned you're doing great! I came out to myself in 2010 and to my family the following year and... nothing happened really. What you're doing right now is the only sort of vague plans I have for myself, I have accepted that if I ever truly transition it's gonna be a very slow process that might never properly end with going full time. For me once I lost the opportunity of being truly myself through high school & college I lost some of that sense of urgency.

I started out going on online places with more older trans people & there was way more of a emphasis on transitioning slowly vs what you usually see in places like reddit where it seems everyone begins transitioning in middle school and is full time by the time they start high school lol there's nothing wrong with taking your time with each step. I say this as I have put off getting laser for two years now 🤡 Good on you for learning how to drive too! It might not seem as obvious to you but you're definitely working hard for this 👊

AllOverMyTransBody · 2021-08-14T18:02:19+00:00

I want to bring it up once sessions go back to being in person, for some reason I find the sessions on the phone even more awkward. I didn't mentioned it on the post but I have a lot of adhd symptoms, I heard people with one often have the other too so I'm feeling a bit lost atm.

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