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- From: w2lee@argo.acs.oakland.edu (Lorraine Lee)
- Subject: Re: is it the body or the brain?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.021908.19497@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
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- Organization: Oakland University, Rochester, MI
- References: <1993Jan5.215349.2539@fuug.fi>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 02:19:08 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan5.215349.2539@fuug.fi>, an2967@anon.penet.fi (Tierney Dhewitrei) writes:
-
- >I notice that most of us speak about being in the wrong body.
-
- I'm in the wrong body.
-
- >For me this is difficult to handle. What seems to be more
- >plausable is that I'm in the correct body, my brain is just
- >confused. I guess it's easier to think it is environment
- >rather then a mistake God made.
-
- This issue is a real struggle for me.
-
- Now this is the view of a
- >CDer that has been CDing for 30+ years and has never attempted
- >to discuss it with a professional (psychologist or otherwize).
- >So what's the answer? I know, if we knew that we would all be
- >either 'healed' or (what I would prefer) running around in our
- >favorite blouse and skirt when and where we please. So, am I
- >the only one that feels this way, or are there others that
- >think that maybe it is a psychological problem and not a
- >physical one.
-
- Welllll, I'm open to the possibility that maybe it is a psychological
- "phenomenon" and not the physical problem of being possessed of an unwanted
- appendage. I'm in the market for a "solution" to the physical problem, but not
- for the psychological one.
-
- Am I reducing beyond the lowest common
- >denominator?
- >
- >Smile, you know you're wearing pink panties and they don't.
-
- I'll try to. I'll _really_ smile when I know I'm wearing a Y chromosome and
- "they" don't. :)
-
- >hugs
- >Tierney
-
- hugs,
- Lorraine
-