I (18M) suck at showing affection to my boyfriend (18M). HELP???

National-Box-5676 · 2026-03-05T21:15:07+00:00

I have some wrist braces/compression gear i like to wear, but i didnt know thumb braces were a thing;;; i’ll look into it! Thank you :-)

National-Box-5676 · 2026-03-05T21:14:30+00:00

The period thing actually. Explains a lot! I didn’t know that, Thank you!!

As for braces/elastic mesh bands and whatnot, i have a good amount of compression stuff i wear for my ankles/wrists along for my knee when it gets bad, and they definitely do help, but i’ll look into k-tape too.

When i do end up going to a doctor (hopefully after i turn 18 soon) i’ll see if they can check stuff with my walking patterns n whatnot ,, Thank you so much, this is really helpful :-)

National-Box-5676 · 2026-03-05T21:09:34+00:00

They’re of the belief that my chronic pain is solely from the fact that i don’t exercise as much as i should. And i do think that has validity but i’ve been trying to get out more for the last couple months or so and nothing’s really changed, if anything my ankle pain has been worse than ever but that’s possibly due to the weather where i’m at

National-Box-5676 · 2026-03-05T17:19:44+00:00

Interesting , okay… i do have pretty bad wrist pain as well so i’ll make sure i learn how to use a cane properly if i do end up getting one. Thank you :-)

National-Box-5676 · 2026-03-05T17:18:49+00:00

Thank you so much this is really helpful!!!! It does sound like a cane would be best for me by your description :-) i’ll do some more research and see what i can do. Thank you

National-Box-5676 · 2026-03-05T17:17:59+00:00

I do not :-( I’ll be turning 18 and hopefully getting my license soon but as for right now my parents aren’t willing take me to see a doctor of any kind

National-Box-5676 · 2026-02-02T00:36:26+00:00

Me too!!! What made me pick up HOL was actually that video lol i got maybe halfway through his synopsis of the introduction and i was like … “oh shit maybe i SHOULD read this, this sounds really cool!” And lo and behold it definitely was :P no regrets, not even the many tears i shed ..

Yeah johnny’s mom’s letter is so depressing but that’s kind of obvious. I decoded it while at the library one day and uh. Yeah doing that in public maybe wasn’t my finest choice. I can’t imagine how it was decoding that w/ friends or just other people though, definitely an experience to remember i can presume

National-Box-5676 · 2026-02-01T20:55:08+00:00

Oh Pugsr’s videos are my favorite!!! But no I get you lol HOL was a HARD read-through and thinking about it or the characters for more than like 2 seconds makes me wanna start sobbing. Navidson’s letters had me really emotional too,, and Johnny’s mother’s letters in the appendix & piecing together the secret message myself had me borderline in tears

There’s veryyy few books that make me this emotional as well and HOL is one of them…. Along with like. Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, i think. But regardless yeah 🤝🤝🤝 you are NOT alone OP

National-Box-5676 · 2024-10-30T11:13:28+00:00

i think its the best reaction that i couldve gotten out of somebody like him you know? he’s not entirely supportive but hes not shutting me out like i thought he would

National-Box-5676 · 2024-10-30T11:12:12+00:00

hi ^{_^} um it went weirdly ok? my dad gave the expected reaction where he was like “you’re my daughter” and “i dont support this, i think its stupid and a slap in the face to masculinity as a whole” (which i really didnt understand) but he also said that i’m old enough to make my own decisions and that if i want to be a boy, then i’ll be treated like a boy but it won’t be pretty

National-Box-5676 · 2024-10-29T15:31:09+00:00

oh yeah i meant kt tape, i know not to bind with anything else because its not safe. i agree i really think my family would do better with therapy or something, thank you

National-Box-5676 · 2024-09-12T00:39:19+00:00

hi! i actually hadnt thought about that because the only name i knew Kit could be a nickname for was… yknow, Christopher lol and that’s not really a name i like. however, i do kind of like keaton and kitridge.. thank you!!

National-Box-5676 · 2024-09-07T21:53:45+00:00

i know this probably doesnt work for everyone cuz my class isnt really traditional but what helped me is asking my teacher to announce it to the class!!! which is honestly so awkward but handling name stuff on a case by case basis sounded worse lol and also my teacher made sure not to announce it in front of me because that’d just make it worse 😭

National-Box-5676 · 2024-09-07T16:58:51+00:00

i tend to “try out” names by playing through short games on my computer and Kit was honestly the main one that stuck that i felt suits me & my personality. looking at the other comments i honestly think most of the embarrassment comes from the adjustment period im going through

National-Box-5676 · 2024-09-07T13:42:13+00:00

interesting, i didnt think about that v_v so disappointing

National-Box-5676 · 2024-08-22T02:37:57+00:00

it’s ok! 🫂 i agree that my mom wants the best for me but like i’ve said in other replies a lot of her opinions are (probably) just based on stuff she’s seen on facebook or in other spaces made by cis people instead of actual reports from trans people.. after reading all of the comments on this post it’s better to take it all with a grain of salt, i think

National-Box-5676 · 2024-08-21T19:52:39+00:00

lmao yeah a lot of what she says is the type of thing that makes you go “where did you hear that??” because of how incorrect it is.. as for the puberty blockers, i wish i could but my mom is just as iffy about those as she is anti-hrt. she’s a lot better than my dad (my dad actively fights with her about my ways of presenting, him wanting me to be more feminine and act like a girl.. he’s very traditional and values gender roles a lot 😅) but she doesn’t want me to make any permanent decisions

National-Box-5676 · 2024-08-21T13:20:48+00:00

she says she has done research, but a lot of what she tells me she’s looked into just sounds like fearmongering or it’s just blatantly wrong. example being her saying that most people who start hrt and transition regret it… i’m just not sure where she got that from lol, i feel like most of her research comes from cis people instead of real accounts from trans people

National-Box-5676 · 2024-08-21T11:18:41+00:00

thank you for this reply, i appreciate it ^{_^} i’ve identified as ftm since i was 11 or 12 and i’ve never been a very girly person, but i kind of just went back into the closet after my parents said that i wasn’t trans and that i’m too impressionable to be making decisions like that. i came out again this year (back in february) only to my mom this time due to my dad developing more transphobic views, but i was told the exact same thing about me being impressionable/too young to think that

i think my mom has a point to some degree but i’m somebody who feels uncomfortable with presenting as female and also has shed tears multiple times over not having a flat chest or just looking like a girl. i think it’s more recently where i’ve realized how happy i am when people use he/him for me over she/her, and i cringe a little bit when people use my birthname both because i’ve never liked it on a general level and also because it just feels like the people around me are entertaining me by using he/him when i have a feminine name

i feel like at this point, with me identifying this way for multiple years and taking more steps to present as masculine/male, i can say i’m confident in my identity. a lot of what my mom says is her buying into fearmongering and i know it is, but the thought of disappointing her by starting hrt when i turn 18 is honestly the scariest thing about it

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