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  • My mom did when I was like 3 but never told me xd

    Then I suspected for much of my adult life but put enormous effort into masking it because I didn’t want to accept it

    Then in my time at a therapy group a few years ago, I occasionally described like how my brain works and my thought processes and everyone said I should get tested but in like a nice way that helped me slowly finally accept that part of myself


  • It’s also worth noting that unless your temples are quite receded, it’s actually surprisingly common that cis women have sharp temple corners of their own. Dysphoria doesn’t always care about that though so it’s up to you how you feel about it in the end. I know plenty of trans girls that didn’t and still don’t give a fuck and look amazing (and pass, since that’s something they care about) and I definitely would have also passed just fine without it but my dysphoria just didn’t care and couldn’t accept it as it was.


  • Minoxidil can definitely give a lot of regrowth, especially when you’re on HRT so there’s a lot less DHT in your system to fuck with the regrowth effects of it. However, there are some drawbacks. A big one is that even topical minoxidil frequently causes increased body hair growth which is generally undesirable for trans women. It won’t turn you into a hurry werewolf overnight so you could do it, see how it works for you, then stop. Similarly due to the lack of DHT in your system, the consequences for going off it are significantly less than with a cis man.

    I haven’t personally used minoxidil but that’s the information I’ve gathered over time from people I know and things I’ve read online.

    I have, however, used finasteride and oh boy let me tell you I fuckin love it. I ended up getting hair transplants to fill in my temples anyway but I was seeing regrowth in the corners, just slower than what I wanted for my transition timeline. It was also helpful for some unfortunate density issues I had on my crown but the very best thing it did for me, or at least likely had a part in, was decreased body hair. I used to grow this wiry gross hair on my shoulders and it just stopped entirely after a few months on HRT and finasteride. I know HRT slows body hair growth over time but this was super fast so I generally attribute it to the finasteride.





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    6 months ago

    For the person you’re replying to, lighter hair (such as blonde, gray, or some form of dirty blonde) generally doesn’t work with laser. To deal with those hairs, the option is electrolysis which is slow, painful, and more expensive than laser especially for large areas but also a very high hair kill rate.




  • Because what it actually means is the freedom for them to spew their hate speech without consequences. Freedom of their speech, not others’. They hate being “punished” for their hateful ideologies and view it as censorship. Being able to spread their hateful beliefs to large groups is extremely important in propagating it to other people. Conservative created platforms are inherently limited by the fact that their audience is not only quite small but also everyone there already believes their bullshit. They want and need to place their hate in mainstream places where others will see it and hopefully come to believe it

    There’s also the bonus effect of reducing both the amount and proportion of non-conservative voices.


  • I’ve been using gboard swiping for idk how many years now and I have no issues with it. There are some words that will less common to get right like say as vs ad or weed vs we’d but it’s so quick and easy to press the erase key and then swipe it again. If you do a swipe and then erase it, I’ve found that it never picks that word again no matter how many reswipes until you’ve decided on that word and moved on. So if I did want we’d but got weed earlier, weed goes back into the normal prediction priority or whatever as soon as I’ve moved past we’d.

    Or even if I swipe and it isn’t the right word, the autocorrect/autocomplete/suggestion bar will be words very similar to the swipe motion I did. I find it has the right word in that bar (if I didn’t get the right word in the first place) probably 90% of the time. Similar suggestions by swipe shape also remain for the duration of, eh… that keyboard session for lack of a better term? You lose it if you close the keyboard or switch apps. So if you’re just trucking along doing your swiping and notice later that it picked a word incorrectly, you can still go back to it and have the swipe shape-based recommendations.

    I have no idea if this stuff is how it works out of the box or if it’s because of customization settings I did but it works really well and makes phone typing pretty easy.


  • I’m just shelving online dating entirely for now. In months of obsessive swiping, it didn’t really go anywhere and overall just made me feel worse. At the very least meeting and making friends in person will have positives that online dating or online friending don’t have because dating apps are honestly kind of toxic to actually meeting people even if trying to do it for friends. I just didn’t know what else to try because I didn’t know how else to meet people but I found some options now.


  • I’m slowly learning to be less hard on myself about it. My friends tell me I sabotage myself by trying too hard due to some not great beliefs about myself (that each “failure” in dating then serves to reinforce) so I’m trying to take their advice, scale that back, and just focus on making new friends for now. I’ll have to see how it goes for my mental health and I’m turn ability to not self sabotage over time but it feels like a better approach than my previous obsessively browsing 5 different apps for hours a day desperate for a match at least