Hi I'm Jack. I saw your comment on the FTM list and I wanted your advice on something. My wife and I are fostering to adopt a sibling group of 4 kids ages 7, 5(as of tomorrow), 3 and 2. I worked for a short time with Austistic kids(very low functioning) a long time ago in California and I see similar signs of autism-like, somewhere on the spectrum, behavior in our 5 year old. As with many foster kids the younger ones all have degrees of developmental delays but Aly's behavior really strikes a chord in me as what I saw in some of the kids from long ago. She's very high functioning either way. She's due for a psych eval (as with most foster kid new placements) soon and it's important I impart to the professional what I see....I'm just not sure how to word it. I don't want them discounting it as just a delay as I think it's more than that due to what I saw in CA. Any thoughts or advice?
Oh, and feel free to check out my journal now I will have friended you in a moment. Turns out more of it is being friends only than I had anticipated- I'm still hoping to keep this side of my identity in a controlled set of places for now. A lot of people that I know from a lot of different other places still don't know about it yet. With the exception of a few I haven't had the chance or way to talk to yet, most of my close friends know how I feel and who I am, and now I'm going by a different name but it's at a different college than the one I went to the first time, and of course not having anything get out in my (by which I more mean my family's) religious community, etc- I'm sure by now you understand. I'm not rediculously closeted, but rather so at this point. We'll see how much longer that takes to change. Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading about your adventures.
Trust me I understand about the relatives. My father disowned me and lets not talk about what happened to memepr0gramme I look forward to reading your entries when you friend me back. :)
Oh don't worry about those two. It isn't your fault. I have to deal with idiots like those two every day of my life. Most of which seem to come from the lesbian community and who hate ftms. :( I get more respect as a man from the religious fundamentalists who surround me. I understand how we can be "weird" if you aren't used to us. I'm sure I take my knowledge about ftm culture for granted.
All that really matters is that I try to educate one person at a time. If I can get you closer to understanding, then... well.. my work is done. It's my duty as an anthropologist or what still passes for one.
Maybe if more people were aware of trans issues, well maybe then things will be better for everyone involved. *sigh*
By the way, did you see that one of the two people said none of my opinions on anything mattered because I'm trans and thus had a diseased mind? I'm so glad I invested so much time as a scientist for my findings to be inaccurate. She ended by talking about transsexual vampires and if they would die because they are in love with themselves or if they would die when the sun turned into a red giant?
I think she forgets that not long ago homosexuality was considered only to be the product of diseased minds. (Unfortunately I think a few people still think such things!) What is disturbing is that in some cases a sex change was performed as treatment. How oddly ironic that transsexuality goes from cure to disease.
I have so much work left to do. Thank you for your well wishes!
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Anyway, I'm looking forward to reading about your adventures.
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I don't have too many adventures. I just "am". :)
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I remember you from either gradstudents or academics_anon. You are at... Penn State? I think?
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Penn State had told me that they were going to be recruiting me for that biology/astrobiology program but they changed their minds. :(
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I'm not a fan or Dirt of Dikiea because of their intolerance, and stopped interacting with them years ago.
I'm sorry that my genuine confusion and interest has caused that mess to happen.
Kit
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Oh don't worry about those two. It isn't your fault. I have to deal with idiots like those two every day of my life. Most of which seem to come from the lesbian community and who hate ftms. :( I get more respect as a man from the religious fundamentalists who surround me. I understand how we can be "weird" if you aren't used to us. I'm sure I take my knowledge about ftm culture for granted.
All that really matters is that I try to educate one person at a time. If I can get you closer to understanding, then... well.. my work is done. It's my duty as an anthropologist or what still passes for one.
Maybe if more people were aware of trans issues, well maybe then things will be better for everyone involved. *sigh*
Wish me luck in educating the world.
~Mel
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By the way, did you see that one of the two people said none of my opinions on anything mattered because I'm trans and thus had a diseased mind? I'm so glad I invested so much time as a scientist for my findings to be inaccurate. She ended by talking about transsexual vampires and if they would die because they are in love with themselves or if they would die when the sun turned into a red giant?
I think she forgets that not long ago homosexuality was considered only to be the product of diseased minds. (Unfortunately I think a few people still think such things!) What is disturbing is that in some cases a sex change was performed as treatment. How oddly ironic that transsexuality goes from cure to disease.
I have so much work left to do. Thank you for your well wishes!
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