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did anyone else as a kid feel like they were the wrong gender? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 17 hours ago by classybattery@sh.itjust.works to c/ftm@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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when i was around 7 or 8, i was convinced i was actually born a boy and my family was lying to me. i wanted short hair too. i didn’t like to wear dresses or stereotypically girly stuff and i wanted to wear men’s clothes. i wanted to hang out with the other boys and it always seemed like the “boy world” was more my thing at that age than the girl world i was expected to enter.

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[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 17 hours ago (9 children)

Absolutely. As a toddler I became adamant that I was previously a boy named something similar to John and lived in the Middle East. I described my life and death in detail. I still remember snippets clearly. I'm not a particularly spiritual person, but have always wondered if it was echos of a past life.

I leaned into this so hard that I refused to wear girl's clothing, and wanted nothing to do with girly things. I think my parents must have figured I'd grow out of it, but the masculine streak stuck with me.

[–] zomboy@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Ahh, I think i'm experiencing something of past life glimpses myself, i believe of a young man who killed himself in the early 2000s. do you ever get really tired and see these "flashes" or get like deja vu that you said something and you feel like your past life had said it?

[–] Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 16 hours ago

Not exactly, but often times I feel very guided in my actions, and things always seem to work out when I lean into it, and conversely go bad when I stray from it. Whether that's wisdom from past lives, genetic coding, ancestors looking down on me, angels, God, aliens, or just powers of subconscious observation - I couldn't even begin to guess.

For example, I always drive the same route home from work, but once felt an overwhelming desire to take a different way. I found out later that there was an accident on my usual route. Coincidences like that seem to happen a lot.

I know that's only loosely tied to what you were getting at but thought it was interesting enough to share.

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