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Ones mental image of oneself (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by edg@lemmy.world to c/trans@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Does anyone else have or had a problem creating and maintaining a female self image in your mind? I can barely do it if at all, and it can be a little distressing. I can only see myself as the overly masculine body that I currently have.

I'm not on HRT nor presenting as a woman in public. Maybe if I was my self image would change?

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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

that's so sweet of you- I have so much more to say about this topic, and what I wrote was an embarrassing mind dump rather than an organized piece of prose.

I actually have poetry I wrote I could share, sometimes I feel they say more for me than my prose can.

If you have any questions anytime my inbox is open, btw - I'm a pretty open book and like thinking things through, so ask me anything, really.

EDIT: here is some of my shitty poetry, it's meant to convey the idea, it's meant to be practical that way rather than primarily good poetry.

I am some kind of woman
the aspirational kind

How does estrogen feel
like a crackling TV fuzz bubble wrap 
circling your breasts and hips 
more a kind of awareness 
than a sensation 
a spotlight
an irrational happiness 
a full-body smile

"Gender identity"

Hidden from the senses
Inferred shadows 
Constraining, defining, shaping
Without a trace
Like water wondering about the shape of a bowl

Gender

A story of you
Told by others
Repeated and retold to yourself 
Weaving fact and fiction 
Ever changing and immutable

Womanhood

A lie concealing 
The sublime

Trans woman
A disciple of womanhood

Woman in their eyes
Why not mine
Gender outside me
Trying to find the door
To let it inside

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago

I think you underestimate your "eye" for poetry.

How does estrogen feel like a crackling TV fuzz bubble wrap circling your breasts and hips more a kind of awareness than a sensation a spotlight an irrational happiness a full-body smile

That one in particular, that's some good shit right there. Evocative, descriptive, emotionally honest. I'd be proud of that one if I had written it. It paints and feeling with words and that is what poetry does best.

I personally dig simple, short poetry anyway. It's harder to pull off, but when it works, it hits harder. Yours work, at least that's these do.