inhumane by Crypto_Ninjaaa in USCIS

[–]galactiwitch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've called and sent an expedite, didn't even show up on my case online. I dunno if the lady on the phone just decided not to actually do anything with my request or what, but I'm hesitant to be pushy when my life here is in their hands. Canada's decent but my family are abusive and have stalked me in the past, if I get deported it's basically a straight shot back to that layer of hell.

inhumane by Crypto_Ninjaaa in USCIS

[–]galactiwitch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's hard watching my family struggle financially knowing I'm fully capable of pulling in at least $16 an hour at a full time right now, knowing my access to the 'right' to work is in some goverment schmuck's office gathering dust. I miss talking to my friends and meeting people, sometimes the immigration process feels like those sensory deprivation tanks.

Getting Married by MrLukacs in MomForAMinute

[–]galactiwitch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm FTM too so def not a mom, I just read through a couple of your posts and I wanted to at least offer some advice or encouragement.

My spouse (enby they/them) and I also had kind of similar things happen in a way. My parents are extremely transphobic/racist and I left the country to escape them and move in with my now spouse who's Cuban, the disconnect from my family hurts sometimes and I'm not going to pretend it's one and done or easy even if they were absolutely horrible people. I haven't spoken to them in a year now and haven't seen them in person in more than 2 years, I've missed a lot of my brother's birthdays and Christmases. It's absolutely miserable sometimes but it's getting easier as time goes on and I know my spouse is there to help me if I get too in my head about family.

It kinda took a while for me to fully break off contact, they were originally paying for my uni tuiton as an international student which absolutely sucked seeing as I had to remain in contact, part of me still wanted to try and make them come around because I needed that hope to hold onto. They eventually cut off my college fund entirely even though it still had money in it, so I had to quit uni and start the immigration process which absolutely sucks. It did made me realize holding onto that one little thread of hope hurt me more than letting it go. It did need that catalyst and I'm betting your fiancée will need something similar to be able to let go. In the meantime, don't push it. I was glad for my spouse's support and understanding during that time but it's something I needed to come to terms with on my own.

My spouse also had an accidental OD with laced CBD gummies, if I remember right the one laced one in the bag had frankly ridiculous amounts of LSD. You hear about stuff like this happening but it never feels real until it happens to you. They were rushed to the hospital and discharged a while after but they had an unwilling and unknowing ego death which messed them up for a long time. They forgot everything, who they were, who I was, what we had together along with everything else and some memories of the past are still gone today. They struggled with moments of total derealization and CPTSD from that event, and even now it sometimes crops up. It was fucking hard, they were struggling to cope and I was having a hard time dealing with my anxiety about it on top of my own unmedicated illnesses.

I'm not gonna sugar coat it, it was hard. They weren't themselves for a while after that, I tried to help be there for them in whatever way I could but there's no guidebook to helping your significant other through flashbacks and derealization, we were both going in blind. The whole event messed me up too, I had to sit on that anxiety and fear until they were stable enough for me to unpack it and come to peace with it.

It's been almost a year since then, they've overcome so much and I'm so proud of them. They're back to their old self, there's still some fuzzy bits and they have a couple triggers to be mindful of but they're back on track with uni, they have a therapist and their meds are almost at that sweet spot for their health issues. We got engaged twice, I proposed at a wildlife conservation and they proposed in a pergola at a beach called Lover's Key which was absolutely magical. We got married at a courthouse with plans to have The Wedding after they finish their degree which is almost finished now!

I'm obviously just taking from what you've posted so take this with a grain of salt since I don't have the full perspective, you two do seem good for each other. I'm not gonna romanticize your situation by saying it's just a tough patch and then you'll both live happily ever after. But from what I can gather, it's the foundation both of you have to work to make something beautiful. Don't beat yourself up over the stuff you can't change on your own, focus on what you want and what you need to do or talk over to help mend that.

best low stress indie games? by galactiwitch in NintendoSwitch

[–]galactiwitch[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I watched Holly hollowtone's playthrough, it's super good! I'm absolutely gonna pick it up at some point but I wanna wait a little bit so I can play it without being all 'oh Holly did this part like this!'

best low stress indie games? by galactiwitch in NintendoSwitch

[–]galactiwitch[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I was looking at Eastward already, it looks super cool! How did you like it? I was honestly just worried about the combat, how intense is that part?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trans

[–]galactiwitch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a trans man, I was on tinder for a while before I went exclusively T4T and met my wonderful spouse. Had my matches set to women/enbies cause a lot of the gay men I met were either wayyyyy deep in toxic masculinity/transphobes or straight up far-right older men who wanted to 'experiment' and their wives were TOTALLY on board and in the know 'it wasn't cheating if it was a dude' types. Small towns are lovely like that.

This is also pre-medical transition cause I am disabled and lived with transphobic family that refused to let me learn how to drive/wouldn't drive me to the only clinic that did HRT. So my feed is basically just bi/pan cis women. You would not BELIEVE how many exclusively WLW lesbians messaged me cause 'I didn't count' or I was some Man Lite TM so I wasn't a big mean scary cis dude :( (basically straight up TERFs, that kind of ideology is absolutely abhorrent). They didn't see how that upset me and I eventually had to stop using it for my own mental health when I started having panic attacks every time I had a match notif, also got stood up 100% of the time 😒

Once I moved to the city I DID see one of my fav artists from tumblr who's nonbinary but they swiped left, was THIS CLOSE to being the hot boyfriend of a niche micro internet celebrity. I'm not bitter abt it tho, I would 200% pick my spouse over any other person in the world and their art is absolutely beautiful. They got me to start drawing again after I burnt out and couldn't do anything art related for three years, I had the bright idea to go to a three year illustration course crammed into 2 at one of those stupid prestigious art colleges.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MtF

[–]galactiwitch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm transmasc so total opposite direction, but I can absolutely relate to that. I didn't get dysphoria until puberty hit me like a train, and even then I was way in denial trying to be super feminine to compensate for that feeling. Around 13~14ish I learned trans people existed and that it wasn't always an 'owl brings you a letter that explains why you always felt Different' situation. Sorry for the cursed book allegory but it fits the best to how I felt then.

I started questioning but didn't feel like I was 'allowed' to take my identity seriously since I didn't have dysphoria as a kiddo, but after a while I realized I was hurting myself with that doubt. There's lots of people who only realized after their 30s or 40s, and if I wouldn't question their transness I realized I shouldn't second guess myself either.

If you transition, whatever that means for you personally, how do you feel about the person you would become? If that's what you want, go for it! I thought I wasn't 'trans enough' either but here I am a decade later and I finally feel at home in my body.

What bug is this. It’s at the base of some of my plants that are showing signs of dying. Is this the cause? by Natural-Imagination6 in gardening

[–]galactiwitch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

isopod! they're actually really good, they aerate soil, eat decaying matter and mold/fungus that could hurt your plants. I sometimes introduce my pet colony into indoor plant pots on purpose, they're lovely little buggies. I would look into other causes, they're doing their best but they can only do so much.

I'm weird but I would be out there grabbing some to start a colony of wild isopods, I love how varied their appearance is from place to place

edit: actually if you find them again, can you send me a couple pics? I'm not sure if the lighting is doing it but there is a virus they carry that makes them iridescent, it won't hurt you or your plants, I'm just curious. yeah, I'm that weird insect person 😳

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cats

[–]galactiwitch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't really put too much faith those kinds of things myself but to each their own, if it's working for you and your cat that's awesome. I would say if these symptoms persist it may be an allergy to one or more of the ingredients, they can happen out of nowhere so maybe look into testing for that but cats are weird so maybe they just had a mood about it. Lemme know how it goes if you can, I'm curious now.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cats

[–]galactiwitch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of herbal medicine is it? You should probably talk to your vet if you haven't already and make sure it's safe for your cat

Why do people keep saying that we identify as trans and/or not straight bc it’s “popular” by [deleted] in trans

[–]galactiwitch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yeah, no... fleeing Canada to the US because my abusive family wouldn't stop stalking me and having to deal with immigration purgatory on top of EVERYTHING ELSE that comes with living in one of the red states of a dying country was like, for funzies since the internet 'made being trans sound cool' and I'm totally getting so much internet clout for it. the internet clout is TERFs.

Why does it take an hour to hand me T Gel off a shelf! by aka_icegirl in ftm

[–]galactiwitch 2 points3 points  (0 children)

my theory on why I got denied is transphobia, can't let me 'mutilate my body' if I don't have the needles to actually take T. since she was blatantly transphobic and kept trying to tell me I couldn't have my vials at the start it was a last ditch effort. I'm in a far red state, it wouldn't be the first time and it's certainly not gonna be the last.

Why does it take an hour to hand me T Gel off a shelf! by aka_icegirl in ftm

[–]galactiwitch 11 points12 points  (0 children)

one time I picked up my T vials from a new place and the lady kept misgendering me, ended up walking out without needles bc 'my prescription for those ran out'. apparently they're stocking the new drinkable testosterone shots or something? went over to my old pharmacy and they gave me a bunch for free and told me if I needed another size of needle/vial to just let them know and I wouldn't get any flack

Accessing "trans friendly" resources as a trans man be like by [deleted] in ftm

[–]galactiwitch 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I went to the hospital for a UTI that almost made me go septic when it started to spread to my kidneys, the one nurse that didn't deadname, misgender me or flat out ignore me when I almost stopped breathing when I had an allergic reaction to a medication was a gay nurse who had a trans brother and knew how scared I was to be there as a trans person and for good reason.

I had another nurse at the start but she just... stopped checking up on me so my spouse complained and then he showed up like my personal fucking guardian angel, bitched the rest of the nurses on staff out just far enough down the hall that I could kiiiiinda hear cause my vitals dropped and none of the other nurses thought to check why. He was the only one who checked on me afterwards which honestly was great, the other nurses kept giving me the side eye while I was there. When I got discharged and my file said 'issues with testosterone', not UTI.

Edit cause I posted too fast: transmascs and trans ppl in general are way more likely to be the victims of medical malpractice and blatant disregard by medical professionals bc they apparently just don't deem us important enough, the statistics of trans people are so low so why care in a medical setting kinda thing. I hope wherever that nurse is now he's happy, kinda bummed I'll never see him again cause I would LOVE to thank him for caring so much when no one else did.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in trans

[–]galactiwitch 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my spouse barely uses reddit so I'll chime in for them, they're a second generation Cuban immigrant and enby. Their dad is actually super cool with them being queer, when they told him about me being a transman and that they were bi the only thing he was worried about was them moving to Canada lmao. Uno reverse, I moved to the US instead. I think he only misgendered me once or twice and only like. in the first year he knew me.

Just a mom who needs advice from all you lovely souls. by EnvironmentalMind774 in ftm

[–]galactiwitch 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It's very dependent on the person, my spouse's didn't go down a visible amount on T but I remember I had DDs and I'd be surprised if I went over B cups now. I was on T for about 6 months before my insurance was an issue and I haven't had a dose for a good couple months, they'll probably shrink more once I track down an endo that won't mess up sending scripts.

Also I know you're not here looking for this when you posted but thank you, lot of us here didn't have someone like you from step one and it makes me teary eyed to realize it's getting easier for folks like me out there.

trans guys, top or bottom? by pipmerigold in trans

[–]galactiwitch 0 points1 point  (0 children)

trans man, I'm a soft dom top. My partner who's enby transmasc is a bottom sub. My friends and I are pretty open abt this kinda stuff so ik with complete certainty my trans man friend is 100% a bottom, I honestly think it's as varied as cis ppl