absolutely. i wish that i could've actually taken steps to be more comfortable with myself at that age. i was so lost in self hate that i feel like i completely threw away my childhood pretending to be someone i wasn't.

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I was just internalizing what my parents and society said to me😞

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When I was inducted into tri M the only dress I could find in my size was from Macy’s. I hated the dress. Felt MASSIVE in it. I found the dress after I came home from college a month ago. It’s a beautiful dress that I wouldn’t be able to fit a thigh in now. I was so hard on that little girl for no reason.

15

I feel like I’m really in the minority that I didn’t gaf about what I looked like until high school (but now I’m the most insecure person ever..)

7

Me wondering why anyone would bully 9 year old elementary school me💔

7

This + why tf was I fucking w grown ass men?? And why tf were they fucking w ME??? I was fully developed at 12 but you’d think the acne would’ve given it away (and I always told them my actual age, n half of them didn’t care)

6

YESSSS 100%!!!!!

5

i spent HOURS researching ways to change my body and face when i was just so little

5

this but i really was ugly

4

it’s a cycle, which sucks :/ in middle school, i hated my body. in hs, i looked back on those pictures and thought i looked fine, while at the same time STILL hating my body. now looking back at my hs pictures, i think i look fine. i don’t hate my body now, but i’m not very confident in my appearance. i know that in the future, i’ll look back on pictures now and think i look fine… and so on.

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No

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Yeah, as a trans woman I do kinda wish I had that time back. But at the same time I realize I was just a gender confused kid being bombarded with toxic masculinity and male socialization and edginess. I don’t know how I would have properly discovered myself going thru all of that, but I still wish I had come out sooner.

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