Started up a thank you image for one of the few family members that has not only been accepting and supportive, but also encouraging of the validity of my identity. 🏳️⚧️
I haven't even bothered to check if this is a common thing in the trans community, but I've never liked my birthdate, and have come to ignore it in lieu of celebrating a date that holds more meaning and significance to me.
My actual birthdate is in a shit month, during a time of year that leaves me physically isolated from literally anyone else because I often get stranded on the farm during/after a snow storm.
I don't celebrate it.
I /do/ celebrate my 'egg cracking' day, which is conveniently NOV.4. I don't expect anybody else to celebrate it and I don't push it on them to do so. I usually mention it in a post and go on about my life. Yesterday I got something in the mail from my aunt. She sent me a very thoughtful gift, a handwritten letter, and some cash money that is..that has arrived with impeccable timing because despite working myself to exhaustion every single day, I still struggle and fail to stay out of debt from medical bills (I wish I could say that 'my illness is chronic and my tits are iconic,' but literally this is only as a result of routine appointments, and the occasional bloodwork and prescriptions).
My aunt was never able to conceive, and in some way, I'm sure, she uses me as a proxy to fill that parental role she never got to enjoy. But we /get/ each other. I love her and wish that geography didn't keep us from seeing each other more frequently.
Kingfishers are one of her favorite birds, and she herself really enjoys camping, fishing, and being outdoors as her literal getaway from working triage in an ER in a major US city. Some of the only core memories i look back on fondly are of times she brought me on some of her trips.
I had already procrastinated on making a 'bird pic' of her own like I had done in the past for a few other people. It's past time I show her how much I appreciate everything she's done for me. </purse dumping>
I haven't even bothered to check if this is a common thing in the trans community, but I've never liked my birthdate, and have come to ignore it in lieu of celebrating a date that holds more meaning and significance to me.
My actual birthdate is in a shit month, during a time of year that leaves me physically isolated from literally anyone else because I often get stranded on the farm during/after a snow storm.
I don't celebrate it.
I /do/ celebrate my 'egg cracking' day, which is conveniently NOV.4. I don't expect anybody else to celebrate it and I don't push it on them to do so. I usually mention it in a post and go on about my life. Yesterday I got something in the mail from my aunt. She sent me a very thoughtful gift, a handwritten letter, and some cash money that is..that has arrived with impeccable timing because despite working myself to exhaustion every single day, I still struggle and fail to stay out of debt from medical bills (I wish I could say that 'my illness is chronic and my tits are iconic,' but literally this is only as a result of routine appointments, and the occasional bloodwork and prescriptions).
My aunt was never able to conceive, and in some way, I'm sure, she uses me as a proxy to fill that parental role she never got to enjoy. But we /get/ each other. I love her and wish that geography didn't keep us from seeing each other more frequently.
Kingfishers are one of her favorite birds, and she herself really enjoys camping, fishing, and being outdoors as her literal getaway from working triage in an ER in a major US city. Some of the only core memories i look back on fondly are of times she brought me on some of her trips.
I had already procrastinated on making a 'bird pic' of her own like I had done in the past for a few other people. It's past time I show her how much I appreciate everything she's done for me. </purse dumping>
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