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Confession time for ./cgl/.

I have to get it out of my chest gulls it's killing me everyday and i can't stand it anymore i'm so tired of crying myself to sleep like an idiot every night.
Let me explain (if it bothers you to read i put a tldr at the end)
I was born a girl, and love lolita fashion and cutesy stuff, i used to wear it but felt even more ugly wearing it and compared myself to all the kawaii girls online and felt even worse (i have body dysmorphia and all i see is a man face a ugly average size body, a potato nose and huge dark circles/bags/eyefolds/... due to all this mental ilness crap making me mentally tired, i can drink as much water and sleep as much as i want they won't disappear, but will get better only if i am truly feeling happy and well on rare days) So I quitted it all and
putted on a "kawaii uke" persona and also got confused about my own gender (now just says i'm queer and i have no pronouns or anything but it sounds so "annoying tumblrina" i rarely ever says it). I still feel ugly and like shit but less, i even tried wearing makeup but i just feel even more shit with it for some unknown reason like it's all flaky.I take a huge care of my skin, i am obsessed with my appearance and even cry over my reflection in the mirror, i am currently getting help. But i can't help but feel incredibly jealous when i look at you all and all those "ulzzang" and "popular tumblr girls" or even pretty guys, everyone seems to be pretty in real life and cute with a nice faceshape, even without the shoop they look nice and "better than me". I just feel like shit all the time and i can't deal with it anymore, i want to dare to be more feminine too i am so scared to be feminine again because i feel even more ugly and i compare myself even more.
>tldr: i feel like total shit and am stuck into that "kawaii uke persona" from fear of being a cute frilly girl since i feel even more shit as a girl and compare myself all the time

>> No.8109332

4chan is an 18+ website

>> No.8109336

>>8109332
shut the fuck up I highly doubt you're 18 bitch

>> No.8109337

>>8109332
OP here sorry if it bothers you but i have no one to talk to since i broke up with my stupid abusive boyfriend (thanks to seagulls telling me to do it because i was too dumb to do it) and i just needed to wind i'm sorry

>> No.8109340

>>8109336
>being this mad

>> No.8109369

Get the fuck over yourself OP.
Like, nothing anyone is going to say is going to make you feel better. You need to get your head out of your ass and stop giving a fuck about what other people look like or might think of you.
And 4chan is definitely the worst place to be when you have self-esteem issues, get the fuck out.

>> No.8109375

>>8109327
>i have body dysmorphia
it sounds more like you have low self esteem OP. go to a therapist.

>> No.8109380

>>8109327
You should seek out a physiatrist, or take this to /adv/

>> No.8109383

>>8109327
You know what's wild? I went through the same exact thing. I loved cute and feminine things since a young age but I felt too ugly for them. In highschool I started feeling like I was a boy inside. When I was a sophomore I found out it was a thing, being trans. I started identifying as male. I cut my hair short, dressed like a boy, and wanted top surgery (never got it because I have small boobs and I was too afraid, but I did bind). For a good 6 years I thought/dressed/acted like a boy. I assumed that kawaii uke persona you described to still feel cute despite my hideous man face (which hay, at least my style matched now) and inability to be a girly girl. Once I became 22, I started wanting to look more feminine because deep down I always wanted to be girly, I just felt too ugly for it. So I did, in little steps. I started wearing more colors, shorts with patterned leggings (no dresses or skirts yet), jewelry. Then I began easing into lolita, fairy kei, and mori girl. I found styles I felt pretty in and I found hair styles and makeup techniques I felt pretty in, all in a feminine way. Now, at 26, I can safely say I understand that it was my own insecurity and how I compared myself to the "right" way of being feminine that made me put myself through all of that. It's hard when a lot of the girls, especially those who get attention, have things like cute faces and feminine bodies. Girls all over the world compare themselves to one another, but it is especially intense in hobbies that involve looking a certain level of cute. Honestly... just fuck it. If you want to get plastic surgery, do it. If not, keep searching for ways that you feel cute and attractive, and don't worry about having a gender identity. If you REALLY want to be a girl, don't let your appearance and confidence stop you. You already know who you are and how you want to be, you just have to keep trying to let it out and find a way you can make it happen. I sincerely wish you luck.

>> No.8109389

>>8109383
Also, growing up and figuring out "you" is hard enough without the influence of the internet and hobbies like jfashion which can make you feel like shit if you are sensitive in such a way. It's easier to just run away and go oh well, I'll just start looking like what suits me and obtain an identity that makes sense with all of that. Trust me, there is a way to look how you want in a way that suits you, it just takes a lot of work.

>> No.8109392

I think if you learned to read and posted this in the feels thread instead you would have gotten better reception

>> No.8109393

>>8109383
>>8109389
Thanks anon you are a cutie patootie oh god

>> No.8109397

>>8109392
I'm really sorry i'm retarded and couldn''t decide whetther to start a confession thread and whine about it there or just whine in the feels thread.

Also to answer the other anon yes i should not spend too much time on 4chan because i'm a sensitive idiot that feels bad for even just one anon mean comment. But i have to get my shit together and try not to let it affect me so badly.

>> No.8109399

>>8109397
Also stop comparing myself and crying about not being another anzuujamu/pastelbat/fetsu/... "kawaii tumblr girl type"
T-They're overrated anyway right?

>> No.8109400

The key to doing that is realizing that in the real, grown-up world, people don't give a shit about you. My overall life quality has improved so much ever since I did.

>> No.8109403

>>8109400
I really should anon. I really really should.
Also you guys are free to submit your own confessions and ventings obviously this thread isn't about me and my first world problems only, i'll try to help if you feel sad or insecure too

>> No.8109407

>>8109327
are you me? jfc this is uncanny
if you wanna chat you can add my skype: naokikero

>> No.8109419

>>8109407
I'll add you as soon as i'm home and not dying of allergy anon i feel so much less alone now

>> No.8109420

I feel a lot like you when dealing with appearance issues. I am not the prettiest, and I will never be. I will also never be as pretty as the popular internet girls and boys. But that's okay, I just need to work with what I have. I feel better when I have makeup on and when I dress up. I will never be as pretty as those other girls, but I am me and I am taking care of myself. Just find what works best for you. Take care of yourself, dress how you feel like. Sometimes you may want to put on makeup and frilly stuff, sometimes you may want to dress up boyish. And that's okay! You don't need to stick to something, just do whatever you feel like.
I know it's easier said than done. But try to accept yourself and accept that there are prettier people, while keeping in mind that it shouldn't even matter to you, because you're you and you're great

>> No.8109422

>>8109327
I have to agree with other anons, keep searching for things that make You feel feminine and cute and just focus on that without comparing yourself to others. You could even try making your own feminine/cute things, like crafts, drawing, sewing, etc. It might make you feel better that you accomplished something and made something unique that none of the other girls have. It could possibly take your mind off of your insecurities and build some confidence in yourself

>> No.8109423

>>8109420
That's so sweet anon it made me feel a lot better.

>> No.8109453

>>8109327
OP
venting on 4chan isn't going to help you at all, in fact it will most likely make you feel worse, if it hasn't already
i highly recommend instead looking into therapy and medication. as someone who has taken advantage of both for my own issues, trust me, they're worth it
if you really must vent like this, though, keep it to the feels thread. that's what it's there for so you don't have to embarrass yourself making your own post like this

>> No.8109685

>>8109399
pastelbat is undeniably ugly, especially without makeup, and anzuujamu looks like she's having a stroke or is pooping in every single picture. fetsu isn't naturally cute either. all of those girls are only cute and popular because they pile makeup and clothing and wigs onto their plainness.

>> No.8109707

So... can we turn this into a legit confession thread?

I really hate this girl who's joined my cosplay group. She hates me too (she's explicitly said that to me and to others, I'm not being paranoid or something). Every time I get interested in a series and post about it, she's suddenly interested in it too. She cosplays as all the same characters I do, and I'm fairly sure she just does it to try and one-up me.

When I saw she'd been invited to my group (who already know inviting her would cause drama) I briefly wished that she would just die in some horrible accident so that she'd leave me and my friends alone forever.

I've never wished anything that terrible on anyone, seagulls. If something does happen to her now I think I'd feel responsible.

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>>8109327
I feel like I'm the opposite of you OP. I grew up a huge tomboy, had short hair, looked like a shota most of my life, did boyish things, and my body was under developed so it just felt right to look like a guy because I was doing "traditionally guy things." Except I'm a girl, and my mom harassed me my entire life about dressing and acting more feminine.
All of my friends growing up were guys, so I just never really cared about makeup or frilly things because I was fine with being one of the guys. And it was easier for me to fall into the background, because I hated my school and I had anxiety.
Then I got to college and wham, puberty hit me. Suddenly I have breasts, suddenly my face is really pretty and girly clothes started to feel more right ot me. So I gradually made the transition into having a more feminine closet and it gave me more self confidence.
Except now I have a face full of cystic acne out of the blue, and I haven't left my house in months. I stopped doing all of my hobbies and the things that made me happy and I'm currently in this awful limbo where my whole life is on hold.

So don't worry anon, you're not the only one who's going through a rough patch. But I do suggest you seek out psychiatric help.

>> No.8109809

>>8109712
You need a dermatologist as much as OP needs a therapist.

>> No.8109916

>>8109809
I do go to the dermatologist. I'm on an antibiotic routine, but this shit doesn't just work over night. Apparently there's something wrong wtih my immune system which is causing my acne. Go figure

>> No.8110052

A lot of my shows are bandwagons, but I consider myself vastly superior to the rest of the fandom because I'm not over-saturated with the show and crammed so far up Tumblr's ass that I can't separate fanfic from reality.

I don't mingle with or even talk to anyone in the fandom unless they were my friend prior.

>> No.8110059

>>8109707
confront her and deal with drama, or stop posting what you're going to cosplay in places she can see.

>> No.8110097

I'd like to confess that I am a fat

>> No.8110262

>>8110059
That's what I do, but the fact is that it's ruining my cosplay reputation. I can't plan groups with anyone because they get excited and post our plans where she can see. I can't post progress pics on my tumblr or fb, because she can see those too. Aside from all of that, I plain don't want to be acting like I'm on the run from the FBI whenever I'm planning a fun costume to wear.

I've tried confronting her, multiple times, as have my friends. All I get is 'well you can't stop me cosplaying what I want!' which... is true. If I thought her interest in cosplaying the exact same things I do, all of the time, then I wouldn't mind but she's made it pretty clear that she's doing this to rile me up.

She can't actually be enjoying this shit, that's the sad part. I genuinely want her to go and enjoy the hobby by herself, instead of butting in on everything I do because she has some crazy grudge.

>> No.8110267

>>8110097
My doctor told me I'm underweight the other day and said 'congratulations'.

My confession is that I want to be chubby and cute. Even if I was only a size 10 (which in this country is not that fat at all) and a little curvier, I'd be happier than I am now.

>> No.8110282

I'm worried I may be slipping back into some of my old anorexic tendencies, and I think my renewed interest in lolita might have something to do with it.

>> No.8110299

>>8110262
Then ignore her. Honestly who cares if she cosplays the same characters, just laugh at her and stay away.
>>8110282
Well you're not going to fit into very much brand very nicely if you over do it, and lolita hides weight for the most part.
Go to a counselor anon

>> No.8110477

>>8110052
This is probably one of the most stupid things I've read in the past week. I cannot comprehend elitism among communities of people who like nerdy subjects. "Look at me, I'm the REAL nerd in this room. You guys are just posers." How old are you? You are cosplaying characters from anime. Anime. You may make better cosplays than other people, but that does not make you better than them. As for this line:
>I'm not over-saturated with the show and crammed so far up Tumblr's ass that I can't separate fanfic from reality.

I have no idea what this means. But realize how pathetic, edgy, and elitist your tone is. Live and let live.

>> No.8110503

You can't just identify as genderqueer because it's convenient for you. Oh my god. Fuck off. That's what tumblr is actually. A lot of people identifing as queer of some kind because they feel insecure. You are literally contributing to the transtrender population. Realize it now so you back the fuck away.

>> No.8110506

>>8109332
best first response

>> No.8110520

>>8110503
but anon, genderqueer is the ultimate in gender-convenience!

hey anon! are you a special snowflake? do you like skirts and pants? how about football and sewing? do you mistakenly believe that gender roles are the only things that make up what gender is? ever wish you could be -like- trans, without all that messy dysmorphia? well now you can, with ~genderqueer!

no longer do you have to feel insecure about your personal interests, fuck all those people telling you that you can like anything you want without it affecting your gender. you're weird and you know it and it's time to show it!

that's right, parade around your super special traits with awesome things like; making up pronouns that change daily, pointing out the fact that you're so totally not hetero-normative to everyone around you, bitch at people mislabeling you as trans, you're not trans! dysmorphia is so 80s, not satisfied with 2 genders, that's okay, you can make up more, this is all bullshit anyways~

express your yooniqueness the way you like it with genderqueer!

>> No.8110590

>>8110267
What a shitty doctor.

>> No.8110980

>>8110267
Same as you.
I'm severely underweight and all i wish is to gain some weight. everyone tells me they are envious of me and so on, but i cant even find clothes that fit me. I have to resort to buying children clothes. It hurts. All i wish is to gain some weight and wear clothes normally.

>> No.8111001

>>8110052
>>8110477

I think I get what she means. I think she means she's better because she doesn't have the plague of locust, bandwagon mentality?

I'm in both the Hetalia and SnK fandoms and the vast majority of people I encounter are weeaboos with this mentality (mostly in SnK). They start watching the show simply because it's on their dashboard, not because it's a good show or they like the characters. Then they craft their live around it. Their room becomes a shrine to just the one show or even the one character, they cosplay in public, defend their pairings to the death, and claim otherkin so the can BE that character. SnK is all they talk about. It's all they can talk about until the next bandwagon comes along they start to devour it. I think Tokyo Ghoul is slowly becoming infested next.

I get where the feeling of "better" comes from. It's hard when I'm cosplaying France and I say, "so Versailles right" and the other Frances are "so do you fuck England from behind or up against the wall?" The "better" comes from being a decent human being who knows how to talk about other things and not relate everything back to the fandom. It's not so much quality of cosplay as it is quality of behavior.

>> No.8111002

>>8111001
Oh by the way my confession is that I think yaoi is really over-rated.

If it's canon then aight cool whatever. But boys passive-aggressively fucking each other shouldn't be the driving force of the fandom.

>> No.8111017

>>8110262
Just ignore her. If she tries to make it a thing with you again, tell her you've stopped caring and just want to enjoy the hobby, she can do what she wants. This is only drama if you let it be drama.

>> No.8111040

>>8110520
Under-rated post

>> No.8111045

>tfw be transman
>dysphoria and all that shit, an undeniable feeling of "wrong" through my life
>liked girly shit growing up
>wore skirts whilst presenting as female because fuck yeah
>pink fucking everywhere
>finally work out what the fuck was wrong with me
>come out
>still like makeup and fashion and ultimately lolita, ouji and j-fashion even though im presenting as male
>try very hard to hit a balance between the feminine things i like and passing as male
>succeed 70:40

>father is extremely confused when i pick up menswear in "girly" colours (read: anything pink, purple or multi-coloured)
>some relatives refuse to accept this
>somtimes have to wear skater shorts and ultra baggy t shirts ala 16 year old boys
>cosplay a man with pink hair for half a day
>apparently this means im not a tran and as such get booted out from treatment after over two years of appointments despite terrible dysphoria

>feel like im failing at being trans by liking the cute pink frilly clothes and prince outfits
>people like paselbat and all the fakeboiz who dont even try to look male are making this shit worse
>tumblr tells me to be deminan0gurrl-self instead of a gross icky boy ewwww anon why would you choose that uwuwuwuuwu
>tfw

>> No.8111046

>>8111001
My roommate is leaping onto the Tokyo Ghoul thing now. I mean, it looks neat and all, but within the last three days she's become terrifyingly obsessed. If y'all hear of a cannibalism case out of Vermont in the next few days, assume it's me

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>>8111045
fuck man that got long
sorry guys

>> No.8111060

>>8111045
You people are so complicated...
Why just not wear what the fuck you want.

Why is passing as a man so important to you.

I don't try to sound intolerant, but it's something I just don't understand.
If I were to wake up as a man overnight, I wouldn't care. And I'm equally fine with being a woman. Gender is not an important notion to me. At all.

Also women can wear all the shit they want no matter how girly or tomboyish without getting luch negative judgement, but it's not true for men. Men aren't that free when it comes to socially acceptable fashion.

You just disciver one of the downside of being one.

>> No.8111070

>>8111060
>Gender is not an important notion to me. At all.
good for you
funnily enough, theres this thing called dysphoria. being called by female pronouns reminds me that my body is not right to what my brain thinks it is. "passing" is also tied to what i see in the mirror, for the aforementioned reason.

maybe once ive finally been "manly" enough to get put on T for a few years, i might possibly wear full on loli

>If I were to wake up as a man overnight, I wouldn't care. And I'm equally fine with being a woman.

somehow i doubt that

>tl;dr please go and fucking stay go

>> No.8111080

>>8111060
I have this, but I'd never say gender is not important. I can't know what it feels like to be born in the wrong gender but I understand that it's important to some people. And that it can be detrimental to them.

I don't care about my gender either, but you sound really ignorant.

Please go away.

>>8111070
Sorry for this idiot, I hope things get better for you. Try getting a new treatment since it seems yours is really intolerant of people being different. Please don't think badly of gender neutral people, it's just this moron over there.

>> No.8111085

>>8111001
I actually lost a friend because of SnK. I was excited for it when it first came out and tried to get my friends to watch it, but as usual no one fucking bothers until it gets popular on tumblr. Then one of my friends can't handle stress from finals and how competetive my school is, and she just goes off the deep end, starts hanging out with this one girl who's a really bad influence, and becomes obsessed with SnK. And it wasn't even tumblr shitposting, her and her other friends who got into it were spamming facebook with characters in flowercrowns, would hide in the communal TV room and marathon it, and then get really dismissive and awkward when other people asked what they were doing or if they wanted to go out for drinks or dinner. She became so outrageously tumblr obnoxious about SnK out of the blue that she lost most of her friends.

It's cool to be into fandoms but people really need to chill out about it, there's other things to life.

>> No.8111096

>>8111001
I think the Naruto fandom on tumblr is cancer. Not a single character is allowed to be fit, pale, or the gender they're born with. I get that Naruto is shit, but why are you making Hinata fat, she's a ninja she kind of has to be fit so she doesn't die. Exception is Chouji. Then the genderqueer stuff is taken to insane levels, not one single character is allowed to be straight because cis scum. It's the most frustratingly tumblr fandom I have come across in a while.

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>>8111080
yeah i know a few cool gender neutral people, but unfortunately in this case its the vocal majority that suck

i feel like the people treating me before just didnt like me. they didnt think i was "serious" because of the femininity and the fact i still live in my parents house (i'm 20 and have no real reason to shell out a shit ton of cash to move out yet), but my options are
>go back to people being shits to me who, likely deliberately, left their dismissal letter including what i need to change to get hormones VERY ambiguous
>change to charing cross which has a waiting list for appointments of up to or over a year

according to the first guys im not an independent adult for really dumb reasons. i've ranted about this before elsewhere, so i wont clog up the thread with it unless someone asks.

>at least my burando loves me

>> No.8111098

>>8110503
Lol trasntrender? You are acting like it's appealing to be trans.

>> No.8111123

>>8111060
I used to feel the same until I did some reading and watched programs pre-tumblr era, and from what I loosely understand dysphoria isn't a problem with society's definition of gender roles, which is what you're getting at.

To you, it doesn't matter if what you like and do is gendered male/female in society, be it clothes, activities, behaviours, whatever. But dysphoria is a total disconnect between your brain and the physical body. Like the stories you hear about children attempting to cut off/stab their genitals, it's extreme psychological unease with the physical reality of your body. And that's why all the transtrender shit is really frustrating for real trans people with gender identity disorder. I'm sure there's something to be said about transtrenders just having extreme low self-esteem/body dysmorphic disorder and confusing that with dysphoria.

Humans brains are complicated and I'm sure a lot of trans people don't understand it any more than you do, except that if deeply affects their perception of themselves and their ability to keep going in day to day life.

(apologies if this was totally uneducated, I tried)

>> No.8111142

>>8111123
you hit it pretty spot on anon, dont worry

>> No.8111158

>>8111045
Hey friend. Sorry you got kicked out of treatment. Did your family force you into dropping it or did your doctors go NAH PINK HAIR FUCK THAT SHIT? (I'm confused as to how half a day with pink hair got you kicked out.)

My bff had the same problem with getting his paperwork in order--cuz he's fluffy as hell--but ended up toning things down and going RAHHHHH MANLY-MAN GRAWRRRGH until he got all his stuff sorted out. As much as it's shitty and counterproductive and whatever, sometimes you just have to tell people what they want to hear to achieve the ends you need for yourself--transition/hormones/surgery in your case, I'm assuming. Then once all the intense medical gatekeeper scrutiny is out of your life, go back to being your fluffy frilly self.

Now bff lives the flamboyant emo boy life he always imagined and just refills his prescriptions and sees his doctors occasionally and there are no bitchy therapists being like NAH SON PINK HAIR MAKES YOU GIRLY to get in his way anymore. Life is good.

>> No.8111165

>>8111123
thank u based anon

it's so frustrating when my friends tell me "WELL GENDER DOESN'T *MATTER*!! YOU SHOULD BE ABOVE THAT!!" because apparently I can just make my dysphoria go away if I refuse to believe in gender roles.

>i don't believe in gender roles i just want my body to turn itself inside out so i don't have to be scared of it anymore

>> No.8111166

Lately I've noticed that my interest in Cosplay and anime is drifting due to the amount of shitbags in the community. Nowadays I just want to major in criminal justice, arrest all of these psychotic people and wear frills... But I'm sensitive and always have been. How do I get over it so I can handle my major?

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>>8111158
I spent barely half a day as that character with pink hair for a photoshoot. The rest of the time i was dressed as a soldier. (unfortunately i made a compilation photo to post on social media and it was all i had on my phone to show them - if id had a choice i wouldnt have)

i shit you not, they said to me almost verbatim

>hmmmmm well..... pink hair isnt really saying manly to me
>me: well i mean he's a male character, even though he has pink hair. i was recognisably a man.
>well yessss buuuuuutttt from my standpoint, you look like a girl

the only nice thing from this is that one therapist was a fuddy-duddy fatass late middle-aged woman and the other was a total hon. its assholish, but man. i feel so much better when i think of how blatantly trans she looks.

i likely cant go back to them going all "GRR MAN MAN MAN BUTCH TESTOSTERONE SMASH ANGER" unless i get different therapists because they'll know its a farce. they also said my outlook on life is too grim ("where do you see yourself in ten years?" literally nothing unless i get treatment then maybe i can see myself having a future :^) "anon thats very dark we're not sure youre ready for treatment")

>a-at least i know what not to do now
>tfw could have been on t since mid last year if i hadnt opened my heart to my therapists
>literally every other healthcare provider agrees my therapists were fucking retards and dont see the reason to keep me away from treatment

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I always thought that the '/cgl/ is the new tumblr' posts were just /r9k/ strawmanning. What the fuck is this thread? You need to be 18 to post here.

>> No.8111295

>>8111183
I know it's not super easy to get new therapists, but get new therapists.

Tell them nothing except what they want to hear--conventional trans narrative (do not question yourself or ever bring up if you may have questioned yourself), tone down how sad you are ("oh I'm just sad because I'm not the man I want to be, in 10 years I can see myself married to a beautiful woman in a great job with a mortgage and maybe adopting kids or lots of puppies and being really creative and wonderful"), you're excited to start treatment so you can get this medical issue fixed and then get on with your life. You're just one of the guys!! You just need their help because your birth body causes you so much UNMANLY SADNESS!! etc.

Once my bff got a new therapist and played along he had his approval letter in like 6 mos or something and then he got the fuck outta there.

>fuck those shitty therapy dudes i am so sorry

>> No.8111330

>>8109327
Perhaps you should see a therapist and see if you fit the criteria for Body Dysmorphic Disorder. I wish you luck OP with battling those demons, low self-esteem and feeling ugly sucks.

My own confession? I am at what should be one of the happiest points in my life but I feel down in the dumps. I'm really successful at university (recently got a full scholarship to study at one of my dream universities abroad), I've achieved some of my life dreams, and my cosplay hobby is going ok. I've been working like a maniac for all of this for as long as I can remember and it's finally paying off, but in the process I burned myself out. I woke up one day and I couldn't get out of bed. Thankfully enough I still have a few months before studies at my new university starts so I’ve been spending time at my parent’s house trying to get back on track.

I'm seeing a therapist but the way back feels like a mountain. Just doing two three things a day wears me out and I tend to stay in bed a lot, I also gained weight because I have no energy to exercise which makes me feel like a failure.

I’m terrified that I won’t be able to handle university and that I will have to drop out. (My therapist is trying to tone down my need to overachieve at everything but my self-esteem is nada without it so it’s hard to feel that I am worth anything if I’m not successful at everything.) All of my friends seem to have so much fun with cosplay and I don’t have any energy or passion to deal with it at all. So making it CGL related I guess I just don’t find cosplay fun right now and it makes me really sad since it’s such a big part of my life.

I’ve been open to my family and friends about my situation but I also get acquaintances talking about how jealous they are of me and I find it a little comical in light of my plight.

TLDR; I’m burnt out, everyone is happy for me because I achieved some really nice things and I’m just feeling awful and down in the dumps.

>> No.8111332

>>8111330
>>8109327
And I missed your small "i am getting help", sorry for that. Glad you are getting help in any case.

>> No.8111499

>>8109327
Find ugly friends

>> No.8111515

>>8111218
The youth of tomorrow, today!

>> No.8111542

>>8111295
>>8111183
>>8111158
>lying to therapists
This is the most retarded fakeboi shit I've read on 4chan to this day. You don't fucking lie to trained professionals who are there to evaluate you so you don't make a mistake getting treatment for something you don't have. You don't just "get new therapists" because they told you that you don't have a medical condition. That's just about as stupid as storming out of a doctor's office and finding a new doctor because the first one told you that you don't have cancer. The people who lie to their gender therapists are always the ones who ended up detransitioning/regretting their sex changes later in life.

Dysphoric anon is obviously confused and the therapists must have added up several different traits of hers to ultimately decide she wasn't trans. They wouldn't kick you out after two years of treatment for wearing a pink wig unless there were other factors contributing to that decision. Take it as a blessing. Being transgender by default is a very difficult and stressful life to live because most people think of you as a freak of nature, add in being a man who wears frilly dresses and pink every day and you're guaranteed to live one hell of a miserable life.

Also going to quote >>8109332
>4chan is an 18+ website
Most fitting post ITT. Now get out.

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>>8111542

>> No.8111554

>>8111548
Not that anon, but what is edgy about this?

>> No.8111559

>>8111554
Common sense.

>> No.8111561

>>8111559
Guess this is really tumblr. No wonder moot left us.

>> No.8111572

>>8111548

I'm hoping you're a troll and not for real, but what the fuck do I know this site is beyond saving from the cancer now.

>> No.8111581

>>8111098
Have you ever been on tumblr?

>> No.8111604

>>8111542
Bless the post! I straight up admitted to my therapist that one of my favorite pastimes is knitting blankets and I still got my letter. You don't have to be a Hulk Hogan clone to get access to hormones, you just have to meet the diagnostic criteria.

Therapists are there to help you, not demoralize you. You have to be truthful when talking about your problems so they can do their best to aid you. Lying to them is defeating the purpose completely.

Holy shit what is wrong with you people?

>> No.8112931

>>8109327
Now I want to imagine how would this thread look if OP was male and typing about their experiences from opposite direction.

>> No.8113287

>>8111166
lol

>> No.8114582

>>8112931
Probably not as bad. /cgl/ always gets their panties in a twist over fakebois, they'd probably just say "lol what a dumbass" and move on if it were a guy.

>> No.8114734

>>8109327
>quitted

>> No.8114799

>>8114582

yeah, but /cgl/ also gets their panties in a twist over sissy fetishists and "guy here, tfw no gf" comments too, so who knows.

>> No.8114931

>>8114582
That's the problem. Thanks to trap fetish no one is serious about guys.

>> No.8115139

>>8110520
Best post

>> No.8115425

>>8114582
It's cuz /cgl is mainly made of fakebois.

>> No.8115532

>>8114799
Yeah but whenever a guy says he wishes he were a girl or claims to be mtf, no one seems to give half of a shit. It's mostly when girls say they wish they were men or claim to be ftm/genderqueer there's at least 2-3 people who jump on their case.

>>8115425
There was a fakeboi thread not long ago and I counted 18 different anons who claimed they were ftm, no joke. More than half of them were probably just confused girls who think, "well I like to crossplay so that must mean I'm a boy!" (and believe me, I've met so-called "ftms" IRL who think that way).

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I avoid buying replicas.
Forgive me, Mana-sama, but holy shit, it's gorgeous and I need it.

>> No.8119908

>>8115532
Everyone and their dog is ftm now. And that's not just exclusive to Tumblr, 4chan is full of transtrenders too. No wonder people think being trans is a joke.

>> No.8119916

>>8115532
Your first point addresses your second. I run a fandom blog on tumblr and virtually every follower I look into under 16 or so is sporting a five-paragraph gender identity and a set of neopronouns. Half of them are 'otherkin', too. I feel sorry for transpeople getting thrown under the bus for this shit.

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>>8110520
you made my day anon.

>> No.8124363

>>8118038
Those are AP's images...I doubt the replica will actually look that good.

>> No.8124507

>be 18
>first meetup
>make friend (codename Alex), become close friends
>start having sleepovers together
>start to share accessories, blouses, etc.
>one day Alex wants to borrow my AP dress
>ok.jpg
>gives dress back next day, it' a replica
>dis bitch
>next sleepover, Alex goes to shower
>take back my dress out of her wardrobe
>takes 2 other brand dresses
>holy shit this is so illegal
>don't care because i'm a petty motherfucker
>sell replica dress
>com was already far away, never talk to them again
>free dresses