Family Pretty Much Done
So I just got the last phone call from the main people to whom I sent my letters. Reactions have been as follows:
Mom: Disappointed she didn't get her own letter. Feeling kinda bad about that but I just didn't know what to put in one to her since I already told her in May. Having trouble with what to call me and is just using "baby" a lot since that is pretty non-specific.
Brother: Wished his letter was longer but thinks life is too short to be feeling uncomfortable all the time. I should do what makes me comfortable in life. Doesn't really want to call me Ryan though, because that's his middle name. He is going to try to start using Avery which I'm good with.
Pops: Told me many times over that he loves me and that I am very intelligent so if this is something I want to do it must be right. Let me know that he feels like I've been under a lot of stress for a long time and wanted to call me as soon as possible so I wouldn't have to worry about him and what he thinks.
Dad: Let me know that he loves me and is always behind me. He is worried about me being eligible for insurance after I get top surgery and that some people want understand. Apparently he called my brother and had a 20-30 minute conversation with him about it, which I do believe is about 6 times as long as the longest conversation either of us have ever had with him on the phone. He apparently just wants both of his kids to be happy. And to have health insurance. Oh and apparently he knew I was gay when I was 12. And this whole time I thought he was the last to know when really he was one of the first.
Gran: She called today and asked me to come see her over Thanksgiving. No discussion or even recognition that she got the letter. She is going to refuse to use my name I do believe but after I've been on T for a year its just going to be weird for her to use my old name and female pronouns.
I still haven't heard from various aunts and uncles but I don't know if they will call at all. I'm not terribly close to my extended family. Everything has gone about as I expected and I must say I am completely lucky. I think I will feel a lot better when I go home from now on. And this has gotten my various family members to actually talk to each other, which is good too.
Other news: I'm going to be getting on my mom's insurance soon and she when she was reading her new policy she swears it said it covered transgendered stuff. I really hope she is right. If I could get my surgery covered, oh the joy! And Sarah helped me figure out a good position for self injecting. I hope it works. I'll be trying on Tuesday. I promise to put up pictures soon. I have to take the one-month photos next weekend.
Mom: Disappointed she didn't get her own letter. Feeling kinda bad about that but I just didn't know what to put in one to her since I already told her in May. Having trouble with what to call me and is just using "baby" a lot since that is pretty non-specific.
Brother: Wished his letter was longer but thinks life is too short to be feeling uncomfortable all the time. I should do what makes me comfortable in life. Doesn't really want to call me Ryan though, because that's his middle name. He is going to try to start using Avery which I'm good with.
Pops: Told me many times over that he loves me and that I am very intelligent so if this is something I want to do it must be right. Let me know that he feels like I've been under a lot of stress for a long time and wanted to call me as soon as possible so I wouldn't have to worry about him and what he thinks.
Dad: Let me know that he loves me and is always behind me. He is worried about me being eligible for insurance after I get top surgery and that some people want understand. Apparently he called my brother and had a 20-30 minute conversation with him about it, which I do believe is about 6 times as long as the longest conversation either of us have ever had with him on the phone. He apparently just wants both of his kids to be happy. And to have health insurance. Oh and apparently he knew I was gay when I was 12. And this whole time I thought he was the last to know when really he was one of the first.
Gran: She called today and asked me to come see her over Thanksgiving. No discussion or even recognition that she got the letter. She is going to refuse to use my name I do believe but after I've been on T for a year its just going to be weird for her to use my old name and female pronouns.
I still haven't heard from various aunts and uncles but I don't know if they will call at all. I'm not terribly close to my extended family. Everything has gone about as I expected and I must say I am completely lucky. I think I will feel a lot better when I go home from now on. And this has gotten my various family members to actually talk to each other, which is good too.
Other news: I'm going to be getting on my mom's insurance soon and she when she was reading her new policy she swears it said it covered transgendered stuff. I really hope she is right. If I could get my surgery covered, oh the joy! And Sarah helped me figure out a good position for self injecting. I hope it works. I'll be trying on Tuesday. I promise to put up pictures soon. I have to take the one-month photos next weekend.