Alone in the crowd- the loneliness factor

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There are a bunch of reasons that I am always on the forum. A lot of it is to stay sane.

But a lot more of it is that I feel like the only one of my kind.

I should probably find a trans support group locally but there is no time and I don’t trust anyone after the mess that happened in the past.

Not male and not female feels like alone in a crowd. Doesn’t it?

Do you feel this too?

How do you deal with it?

There is something kind of crazy about the way I am all over the board like this. But whatever. Staying alive and keeping your sanity is the first priority of trans isn’t it.

I think the hardest thing we face is that sense of isolation. Of being different. Of not fitting in.

Thank God we are not alone, not truly. Its only distance, in the end, just a little trip half way across the world, or down the turnpike.

Or the distance of a finger tip from a keyboard.

Do feel like this too? Are you ok?

We want to you never be alone…. Not truly alone.

Because there is always someone here that gets it, that understands.

Blessings my dears

Trinity

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You too girl

It matters, doesn't it...
:-)

[Edge]

I also feel like the only one like me. Which, to an extent, everyone is since we are all individuals, but I mean I've always been odd. Not just in terms of gender. However, that doesn't make me feel alone. It has caused me problems with fitting in especially when I was younger, but I think it's not so much that I'm different that makes/made me feel lonely. It was not being seen and accepted for who I am. It's ok that I'm different from my friends because they see me and welcome me for who I am and vice versa.
You're not alone, Trin.

[Sisyphus]

I definitely feel alone. I think I could do being one of many different, but being in the binary makes me feel not one of many, but excluded, especially the the sheer nature of the threat of loss of social supports by not being on of many. I feel less alone when I am with people who understand, but more alone when I am with people who seem to take offense at the sheer potential of the existence of people like me and the change that comes with it (like pronouns or names or not selecting a gender box in all the ways our language and social interactions demand it).