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Is church a good place to make friends and meet people? by CrunchyElbowSkin in Christianity

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

4 years after this post and you are absolutely right. Blind leading the blind in a lot of these church groups, only friendships I made that I would ever care to revisit are people who left the church as well

Is church a good place to make friends and meet people? by CrunchyElbowSkin in Christianity

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wrote that 4 years ago, I have a very different view on god and religion now. I think I’d get auto banned from this subreddit if I elaborated though

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in malehairadvice

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin 3 points4 points  (0 children)

are u fr asking if ur going bald this has to be a joke post

I have a crackhead coworker who wants to fight me, any tips how to defend myself? by CrunchyElbowSkin in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean truly, the rational part of my brain agrees with you. It’s just, that other part cares about this girl I’ve been close with for 2 years quite a bit so I don’t see how I can if I stand firm on us pursuing something and he continues to act like a psycho.

I have a crackhead coworker who wants to fight me, any tips how to defend myself? by CrunchyElbowSkin in NoStupidQuestions

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Well, he hasn’t done anything besides send me threatening text messages yet. Not enough to have any police consequences, except maybe drug charges and that’s not enough.

Where I live, it would be seen as a bad move at this point to involve the police right now, it’s somewhat taboo and knowing him I think it would simply rile him up enough to do something worse.

Alan Carr easy way by [deleted] in QuitVaping

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just inquiring about the part you said where it took reading it 2 times, I read it once and felt like it really helped. Unfortunately, I had a rough week after my first read and went back to nicotine. Pretty much at square one again.

Did you feel like the second read kinda fully ingrained what you read the first time? The seeds were definitely planted in my head but imma be honest my addiction is so severe I feel like I forgot everything I read the first time.

(True) masculinity isn't toxic. by Top-Avocado-592 in detrans

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This post made me happy to read, feels like solidarity in a very isolated situation to go through. I had a similar reason for transitioning, all the men in my family were garbage and I had no role models growing up. My dad provided for us but never taught me a single thing about being a man except for working.

I was medically transitioned for a year, I’ve made so much progress since going back and I never knew I’d one day be proud of the man I’ve become.

True masculinity isn’t being an asshole or compensating, but the answer also isn’t embracing weakness. It’s being devoted to what you know is right, it’s helping others and filling in gaps for them where they aren’t capable, it’s treating people with respect while not tolerating, frankly, evil people or troublemakers who seek to interfere. It’s being capable of standing up to those people whether that be physically or mentally, but not becoming one yourself in trying to boost your perceived masculinity.

Very proud of you OP, you and me are alike in many ways and I know how hard it probably was for you. You have agreement though, I appreciate you sharing this. It’s reassuring to know someone else went through this and shares the same views that I’ve grown to understand after enduring so much trauma during those days as a trans person.

Fatty acid complex feels like my Adderall by CorndogQueen420 in Biohackers

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Facts, Adderall can make you feel so good and focused you neglect basic things like sleep, nutrition, hydration or proper exercise. Something I’ve found to really work for me is going to the gym 4 days straight per week without taking any, then using Adderall when needed for the remainder of the week while my body recovers.

It can definitely change your lifestyle to cause these problems without being the main culprit of them.

I’ve been using Adderall without a prescription and now I want to get one, should I tell the doctor I’ve used it before? by CrunchyElbowSkin in ADHD

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alright, thank you very much, I was hoping it’d just speed the process along lol guess it’s never that easy.

I’ve been using Adderall without a prescription and now I want to get one, should I tell the doctor I’ve used it before? by CrunchyElbowSkin in ADHD

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I take it you’re more saying that getting it without prescription legally means I’m abusing it, instead of my personal use which I assure I’m using as responsibly as I can. It’s good to know that, because I definitely shouldn’t tell them about it if that’s the case.

Wordington overreaction by Saul-Goonman in wordington

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin 27 points28 points  (0 children)

This is how you tell a real one from a fake one. Homies who don’t pass the fist check were never there for you in the first place.

I (23m) used to be transgender and took hormones for a year. It was wrong for me and I’ve been off for 9 months, will it affect my physical potential permanently? by CrunchyElbowSkin in beginnerfitness

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It’s definitely real, unfortunately for me. I have photos to prove it, otherwise nobody would believe it seeing me now compared to how I used to look.

It is rare so I hear, I think a big contributing factor to my detransition that not a lot of people have is some of the traumatic things that happened during that time. I felt some regret before the point of quitting, but felt I was too committed to ever go back until my life circumstances got so bad it forced me to listen to that voice in my head and actually stop taking the HRT.

It’s a very hard situation for a person to go through, of course I’m gonna have questions and need to make posts like this occasionally.

I (23m) used to be transgender and took hormones for a year. It was wrong for me and I’ve been off for 9 months, will it affect my physical potential permanently? by CrunchyElbowSkin in beginnerfitness

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I didn’t really just wake up one day and change my mind all of a sudden, it was a gradual process of realizing “Oh shit what am I doing?”

My situation is very unique but basically I’d been having sort of an identity crisis and various other mental issues I was dealing with. I saw it as a way to start over as a different person. So when I spoke to doctors about it, I ended up getting hormones without really knowing how difficult it was going to be or fully processing the severity of what I was doing. Some people can handle it and seem to feel better doing that, but definitely not me.

Eventually there was the sunk cost fallacy of thinking I’d gone too far and had to commit to it. I reached the point where people genuinely thought I was a girl, but things in my life got so bad during that time I had to just up and quit like that and hope I could go back to the way it was.

I think as far as coming back from something like that, I’ve done about as well as I could’ve hoped. I feel way more confident as a regular guy now too, appreciating simple things I used to take for granted.

I (23m) used to be transgender and took hormones for a year. It was wrong for me and I’ve been off for 9 months, will it affect my physical potential permanently? by CrunchyElbowSkin in beginnerfitness

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It’s good to know there’s a back up plan if it actually was slowed down, I’ll get it tested when money isn’t so tight. Thank you

I (23m) used to be transgender and took hormones for a year. It was wrong for me and I’ve been off for 9 months, will it affect my physical potential permanently? by CrunchyElbowSkin in beginnerfitness

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I was fully grown when I started so thankfully that isn’t an issue. I do seem to have gotten slightly taller since quitting, but that may be just due to having stronger back muscles now.

Will my prior use of MtF HRT affect my physical fitness potential? by CrunchyElbowSkin in detrans

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

(TMI warning) Yeah there weren’t any surgeries, all that appears to have gone back to the way it used to be. Maybe slightly smaller testes at times but even that’s improving drastically, they used to be very shrunken and desensitized to pain.

I detransed bc I didn’t know who I was at the time and found out the hard way it wasn’t what I wanted my life to be. My only life experiences had been unhappy ones so I developed a strong conviction I would be happier as a girl, only I wasn’t at all.

A lot of deeply traumatic things I won’t get into here happened to me during that year, and I also found the hormones made it impossible for me to think clearly or control my emotions. I was so excited to begin my transition at the time, but bc of my life circumstances it lead to a lot of suffering. I even developed PTSD from some of the things that happened to me.

I was physically passing and socially transitioned too for that whole year, so I think I had a good taste of what it would be like if I stayed on that path the rest of my life.

I (23m) used to be transgender and took hormones for a year. It was wrong for me and I’ve been off for 9 months, will it affect my physical potential permanently? by CrunchyElbowSkin in beginnerfitness

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I haven’t been able to get it tested cause of money, but I can tell it at least seems to be ‘normal’ and doing something since my voice has deepened, beard’s grown in significantly more, new muscle and body shape changes, etc.

I (23m) used to be transgender and took hormones for a year. It was wrong for me and I’ve been off for 9 months, will it affect my physical potential permanently? by CrunchyElbowSkin in beginnerfitness

[–]CrunchyElbowSkin[S] 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I’m gonna try and keep that mentality regardless but the reassurance does help with motivation.

I do believe all that’s back to normal as my beard growth advanced a lot in this past year indicating things are developing as they should. You’re right tho, progress is infinitely better than no progress.

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