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Coming out

To come out, as your true authentic expression in the world, is more challenging than I could imagine.
It feels like, the ideas within my head, of what is expected, are so stiff and creating a whole self that isn't ME.
I posted a picture in my social media. A picture where I'm feeling the shift in me. I know I am shifting, I experience it. And I get the comments of my previous support system of friends and elders. And I feel trapped again there. As if they're perpetuating the past.

It's so hard to let loose, especially of those. I can understand they come from a place of compassion.
But I don't want compassion anymore, I don't want to be supported anymore, I want to be loved and this means, to be heard, and this requires from me, to finally become able to speak.

I want to come out in my fullness, in all of my craziness and authenticity, I've been shrinking, people pleasing and silent for so long.
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WillaKissing56-60
Oh, how I feel your angst though I may not know your experiences or what you wished to come out as other than "craziness and authenticity" which my friends and family already know me as, and I support and wish you the best of luck with it. I can tell you it is very self-rewarding once you do.

What I would love to come out as on social media to my friends and family is as the Heterosexual cross dresser that I am, but that I cannot and will not do for the sheer loss of friends and family that would not support me if I did.

So, I feel/share your angst! 馃
elafina36-40, F
@WillaKissing isn't not so much angst as an overflowing energy that has to pour out...
WillaKissing56-60
@elafina I was not sure from your post message, but I understand what you meant now!

Let it flow and love being who you are meant to be!
elafina36-40, F
@WillaKissing and you, walk towards your truth. They ought to love you for your wholeness...