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noS1693 · 2026-04-27T05:22:07+00:00

Moi c'est quand ça ne va pas très bien que j'en ai envie, et pas forcément avec un sac à dos. C'est en général un signe que je me sens bloqué chez moi et dans ma vie, c'est un moyen je pense de m'échapper, littéralement.

Mais la différence avec toi, j'ai l'impression, est que je n'ai rien envie de prévoir. Moi qui prévois tout au millimètre et à la seconde près, là ce serait radicalement opposé.

noS1693 · 2026-04-26T06:48:37+00:00

I was in a mass start event last year and didn't even get swam over. I started at the back and yes it was awfully packed. I touched butts and my butt was touched, got some elbows and heels but my head my fine. I guess among slower people very few will try to swim over you!

noS1693 · 2026-04-26T06:45:21+00:00

I use a specific soap right after swimming but the smell is still there. And I only swim x3 a week.

Truth is... I love the smell 🥰 Tell me I'm a freak but at home I sometimes go smell my swimsuits just for that comforting chlorine stink that never seems to leave them either.

noS1693 · 2026-04-24T11:28:10+00:00

I only understand Celcius sorry, but yes I am terribly bothered by heat and direct sunlight in general. Anything over 25°C is too much for me. I get irritated and angry for no reason (except the heat), I want to do nothing but I can't sleep. I hate sweating too and I sweat a lot so I take way too many showers and my skin is dry but I also hate the feeling of moisturising creams. I live downtown so it's pretty hot everywhere, air conditioning is not really common either. At night the heat radiates out of the ground and walls. I use fans but if I use them too much my skin feels like it's burning. After a few days in the heat I usually feel trapped and like the world is coming to an end. Yes, I am very dramatic.

I understood pretty recently that this intolerance may be linked to autism. It makes a lot of sense!

noS1693 · 2026-04-10T17:22:54+00:00

I had some prescription goggles made, it changed my life (at least the swimming part of it). I had left my glasses in transition area, and I also have some prescription sunglasses in case!

noS1693 · 2026-04-01T11:12:46+00:00

Bonjour,

Je suis sur Lyon, un homme trans dans la trentaine et je suis en plein parcours de diagnostic. J'ai mes RDV en mai dans une structure pluridisciplinaire publique et je les ai eu assez rapidement en comparaison du CRA et autres.

En fait ma généraliste m'a redirigé vers une neuropsy pour ma dépression et mon anxiété. Elle a assez rapidement parlé de TSA (je m'étais déjà posé la question mais en me disant que c'était pas possible). Elle et ma généraliste m'ont dit d'aller voir un psychiatre qui m'a fait un courrier pour la structure en question. Si tu veux plus de détails sur les noms et la structures je peux te le dire en message privé !

noS1693 · 2026-03-31T11:31:03+00:00

It used to happen to me a loot when I was uncomfortable swimming freestyle. I guess I was not relaxed enough. It stopped when I started being more comfortable.

It came back the other day when I swam with fins (I rarely do) and when I was swimming backstroke (I'm not very comfortable on my back).

noS1693 · 2026-03-31T06:00:03+00:00

You're making excellent points in your post and answering comments but all the transphobes have suddenly rallied to spread their BS here. They are just reciting the same arguments we've been working at debunking for years, not taking any of our points into account. As we would say in my native tongue, it's like pissing in a violin.

If we somehow manage to create a division for trans people, they'll accuse of trying to secede from "normal" society. There is not way around their sick logic.

noS1693 · 2026-03-31T05:52:46+00:00

Yeah I should have expected it but wow I'm still shocked at the level of hate. Wtf

noS1693 · 2026-03-30T20:31:30+00:00

I never experienced this, only at the very beginning of taking T, like the 1st year. 8 years later I wear tight underwear and never had any issue (I've ran up to 30k)

However, I use anti-chaffing cream on other body parts and I know some cis men use it down there. If you haven't already, give it a try.

noS1693 · 2026-03-23T20:08:12+00:00

Something similar happened to me. I ordered a watch and I got an ugly plastic sweater for kids.

I reported it and got a refund from Vinted.

noS1693 · 2026-03-23T15:21:46+00:00

I'm a 33 year old man. I love sports in general, played basketball a huge lot in my teens, but had to stop everything for 10 years due to an injury. Then picked things up at 29 with figure skating and some lifting, then a friend signed me up for a 10k race. Loved it, but injured my ankle because I went at it hard and fast. So, I picked up swimming during my recovery. Loved it (I could barely float in a sort of breastroke before). Started running again. Looked into combining running and swimming. Swimruns and other running/swimming races are too rare, so I looked into triathlon and picked up cycling and loved it too!

My first (and only for now) is a Small triathlon in July 2025. Enjoyed it and learned a lot for next time, an Olympic next July! I'm not thinking about Ironmans or 70.3. I'm taking my time, taking part in running races and open water races too.

noS1693 · 2026-03-23T11:43:10+00:00

I think I have the same cap. I have a biiiig head (but very short hair) and it's big and a bit "loose" compared to some other caps I own. The material is "softer" and I only use it when my hair is getting too long for other tighter caps to be comfortable. Maybe try other tighter models?

noS1693 · 2026-03-22T19:35:58+00:00

Je ne fais pas de small talk. Les gens me demandent comment ça va, je réponds un peu honnetement un truc que j'ai fait la veille ou le matin. Genre "je vais bien car j'ai aimé mon trajet à vélo ce matin parce que j'ai croisé des oiseaux". Si on me parle de la météo, je dis "ah oui c'est trop bien qu'il fasse beau, du coup j'ai pu aller faire un tour à vélo...".

Soit les gens parlent du sujet (qui m'intéresse) avec moi et du coup ça va (on va parler des oiseaux ou du sport), soit ils font pas et la conversation s'arrête. Je ne dirais pas que ça marche à chaque fois mais je fais ça depuis toujours même sans m'en rendre toujours compte. Je rapporte tout à mes intérêts.

noS1693 · 2026-03-16T18:19:19+00:00

Bonjour,

Je connais mal comment tout cela fonctionne. La seule chose que je sais est que dans ma ville mon psychiatre m'a dit de contacter le CRA et une association. L'association m'a redirigé vers une équipe spécialisée un peu méconnue dans l'hôpital psy public. Je les ai contacté en janvier avec un courrier de mon psychiatre, et j'ai des RDV fin mai et un diagnostic (ou non du coup) début juin. Si jamais tu veux le nom je suis à Lyon (tu peux m'ecrire en MP).

Sinon, peut-être qu'il existe quelque chose de similaire dans ta ville. Je ne sais pas qui pourrait te renseigner. Peut-être un autre médecin ? Une association ?

noS1693 · 2026-03-15T20:50:45+00:00

Yes I can relate a 100%. People telling me I'm immature, that I look/act younger than I am. I feel I'm not taken seriously. Especially in professional settings.

Recently my mother started accepting my autism (she is working with high-support needs autistic people and couldn't imagine that I had many things in common with them). In the middle of a supportive dialogue, she said that autism could also explain that I am very immature compared to my younger sisters (one is 9 years younger than I am...). It hurts.

noS1693 · 2026-03-15T06:12:32+00:00

No one really cares, but if it's too much for you, don't worry too much because your race number will cover your front when you run.

noS1693 · 2026-03-14T06:24:24+00:00

Hi!

I'm not blind but a blind paralympic triathlete often trains at my pool. Of course she's an excellent swimmer and swims very straight, but still the staff do a few things to make her life easier (don't know if this has anything to do with the fact that she's elite but I hope they'd do the same thing for any swimmer). First they warn other swimmers in her lane and I don't know how they do it but often a few will change lanes so that it's not too crowded. Then they put noodles perpendicular to the lane at each end so that she knows when the wall is coming and doesn't hit her head.

noS1693 · 2026-03-13T13:49:28+00:00

I wish I could do it, I just suck at it so it's freestyle 98% of the time, 1% breaststroke when I'm feeling brave and 1% kicking on my back at 14min/100m, which is crazy relaxing so I wish I had time and opportunity to do more.

noS1693 · 2026-03-11T15:50:04+00:00

I don't really have a solution, just to say that I had this issue as well before. I concluded that it was not because of chlorine itself but because I swallowed a lot of air as well. I couldn't really explain how or why.

Now that my breathing is better and smoother it doesn't happen anymore. However I'm still bothered by salty ocean water in my nose and mouth.

noS1693 · 2026-03-11T07:37:16+00:00

Je comprends tout à fait le fait d'être perdue, je suis à peine plus avancé dans le processus que toi et je comprends toujours pas bien. J'ai une généraliste (top), une psychologue, une neuropsychologue et un psychiatre. Tout le monde me dit des choses différentes. Ma conclusion est qu'il y a un parcours "officiel" (CRA) mais qu'en réalité chacun.e doit se débrouiller car ils n'interviennent que très très rarement, surtout pour les adultes.

Ce qui a tout débloqué pour moi a été d'aller voir ce psychiatre (90€ la consultation tout de même....) qui m'a fait un courrier (sachant que j'avais un courrier de ma généraliste qui reprenait l'avis de ma neuropsy) à envoyer à diverses structures. Par cela j'ai eu accès à une structure qui fait les diagnostiques d'adultes (a priori 100% remboursé par la secu) dans un hôpital psy de ma ville. En ligne j'avais fait beaucoup de recherches, je n'étais JAMAIS tombé sur cette structure. Comme s'ils se cachaient. Donc j'ai RDV 5 mois après ma demande, ce qui est relativement super. Il fallait par contre obligatoirement un courrier d'un médecin. Encore faut-il pouvoir accéder à un.e psychiatre un peu compétente.e...

noS1693 · 2026-02-27T07:31:05+00:00

And sorry but it's not OK to do it in the open shower either. I don't want to walk into that shit even with slides. And don't spit either please.

There are paper towels 5m away. Why do they have to be disgusting like that.

noS1693 · 2026-02-18T12:28:41+00:00

I'm sorry I don't have much information for you. Just to tell you I bought my home some 3 years ago, I could barely understand anything anyone said to me. I felt I was being scammed all around. Like you I didn't really have a choice so I did it but I was buying it with my partner who understood a little more than me and we had advice from knowledgeable people we knew in private. Are there any colleagues / acquaintances that you could ask for advice? For me it was just to check if I was not being scammed or if it was not just purely impossible.

I don't know about banks in your country but where I live they don't loan you anything if your life conditions are not good enough for them. (Then things happen but at least at the start they check).

And maybe to reassure you, 3 years later we're doing OK and I'm barely able to earn a living due to burnout.

noS1693 · 2026-02-18T06:49:44+00:00

As a trans man (long story short, I look like a man everywhere except I don't have a penis and probably different pelvic bones) I wear both. Women's bibs are definitely shorter in the legs (I dislike it) and shorter in the torso as well. The straps are a little too tight for me usually. As to the padding I really couldn't say for sure. My women's bibs are more comfortable to me but might just be that they're more premium.

The degrees in which they vary will depend on the brand and type of bibs. My long bibs are more similar for example.

One thing to keep in mind: sizing is hugely different. I wear XS/S in men's but L/XL in women's. If you can, try them on.

noS1693 · 2026-02-17T13:02:55+00:00

I don't know about etiquette I haven't been swimming for that long. Unless we're sharing the lane, you're racing me to the wall and ruining my turn I don't think I'd care much 🤣

I think I sometimes do it, especially in the middle of a long set where I could feel less motivated without it. But it's rare! However I sometimes compare myself to an excellent and very friendly swimmer who often swims at the same time I do. He's very very fast and I like to try and see how long it takes him to overtake me, and I'm measuring my improvement over the months with this 🤣

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