Happy 4/20 everyone! I recently started drinking coffee in the last year after never really liking it. Growing up I would try my mom's coffee every once in a while but it always tasted burnt and bitter. Looking back I realize that I didn't like that coffee due to my mom usually steeping it in a French press for 15-20 minutes.
I got into coffee in the last year due to my roommate who worked as a barista making me some and it being actually flavorful. But we were using a drip coffee machine and it wasn't strong enough for my liking. Before I actually started drinking coffee I liked to watch coffee gadget reviews cause I thought they were interesting? Which is how I found out about the aeropress which is my way I make my coffee in the morning.
The aeropress is kind of a three one thing cause it's a pour over, French press and manual espresso machine all in one, in addition I use a hand crank burr grinder to grind my beans and typically only add a bit of creamer as I want to taste the coffee as much as possible I also usually use medium roast beans.
How do you take your coffee/tea?
Transphobia
My mom outta nowhere asked me in person if I still wanted transition and thanked me when I told her no.
She also started asking me when I was going to cut my hair and said that I couldn't run away from the question by hanging up the phone cause I am here in person
I came to these people to rest and so I could fucking sleep for once.
mood
shit was a nightmare pre coming out, I'm so sorry you have to deal with this
same
It's so fucked. I will say though that the goalposts did shift favorably when I came out and in no uncertain terms insisted I was going to transition. All of a sudden my mom says "can't you just be a feminine man?" after she had given me problems about doing femme coded things like shaving my arms and legs. At that point she's more worried about me wearing dresses and taking HRT than she is about the hair anywhere on my body.Idk if this will work for you, but for my parents I learned that taking the extreme option is best. The harassment hasn't fully stopped, but even when it was in full swing at least it shifted away from some of the more mundane things.
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Sorry for taking a while to respond. While what you're saying will probably work (cause it was the only way my parents ever "allowed" me to do things), I can't really do it with transitioning. They will never really accept me (trans, poly and bi? Lmao) and I don't want to compromise or argue about who I am.