• Diva (she/her)@lemmy.ml
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      It was extremely silly, I went and had a nice day at the beach after I stopped checking that thread pineapple-surf

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          It was great! I went with a few friends and it was first time I’d been swimming around other people since I started HRT so that was nice to rock a swimsuit in public.

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            Hell yeah! That’s still a goal I need to achieve. Bottom dysphoria is the main issue for me in that regard, and a discouraging thing when I think about swimsuits. I overcame my aversion to shopping for bras, now I need to overcome my aversion to swimsuit shopping.

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              The biggest hurdle for me it was mostly wanting to deal with all my body hair, getting a course of full body laser has felt life changing when it comes to being out in public.

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            I can only imagine how great that must have felt. As a kid I didn’t like the beach at all, I found the sand annoying (anakin-padme-1) and it felt like a body show, which felt awkward and made me feel worse over how pale and skinny I am. And that’s without any gender anxiety.

            But in recent years I have nurtured a wish that my life and self-esteem improves to the point that I can have an experience like this too. It’s become a kind of final proof of how much I would have grown as a person.