I haven't been through the process myself and it's going to be really different with different clinicians. Several of my close friends have been through it and we've talked a lot about it but I wouldn't know how to advise you.
I've taken every test on EmbrancingAutism.com a bunch of times but I've never seen a clinician about it so even though I score pretty high so I'm kindof on the dark about interpretation.
If I can give you a joke answer, I'd suggest that you print your top 10 longest comments on this platform and show it to them when they start asking about whether you have deep knowledge about special interests 🫠.
I hope you get what you want out of your neuropsyche assessment. It can feel pathologising sometimes, but it's good to understand yourself better. Wishing you the best.
I was exactly where you are now not very long ago at all. I'm 38. It's terrifying and beautiful. I will never go back.
It's good that you're reaching out to community. You're welcome here. You're not alone and everything you're going through is something many of us will have gone through too.
I wear wigs. I feel very very sad about not being able to have lovely natural hair, but wigs have been a massively helpful thing for me. I currently have a bunch of cheap ones that I bought so I could find a style I liked, one day I will save up for a good one.
I wore my cheap-ass wig to trans pride yesterday and loads of people complimented me on my hair. So far in my experience, cis men have no fucking clue it's a wig, and the women that have noticed have just gone "hey girl nice wig" and talked about their hair extensions or whatever.
I'd recommend you buy a bunch of cheap ones first, experiment before you commit to an expensive one, then you can go to proper place and have an appointment with a stylist and ask for exactly what you want.
Finally got a break in my blood test hunt. A local drug harm prevention group have set up a HRT blood testing clinic for those of us on DIY or otherwise too broke to monitor ourselves. They're gonna give me the tests I need to be able to start HRT with Imago. It was going to be just too expensive for me otherwise so I'm so happy.
I have been talking a lot about this in therapy recently. How all my previous hobbies were extremely dissociative. Video games being a major one, but really anything that let me forget I was an embodied human being.
Since cracking I'm really not feeling the urge to dissociate at all. I'm still waiting on hormones to start but I hope it continues honestly.
I appreciate you saying it's happened to lots of people, i thought i was just really dumb for not knowing how risky it is to leave it in too long. The packet did not warn me with sufficient enthusiasm!
I'll take anything i can get! It's easy to look at your peers and think they've all got it together so well, but i know I'm comparing my private experience to others' public one and that's never a fair comparison.
Also I adore dorky early transition fashion, it's always so cute to see people finding themselves!
I haven't been through the process myself and it's going to be really different with different clinicians. Several of my close friends have been through it and we've talked a lot about it but I wouldn't know how to advise you.
I've taken every test on EmbrancingAutism.com a bunch of times but I've never seen a clinician about it so even though I score pretty high so I'm kindof on the dark about interpretation.
If I can give you a joke answer, I'd suggest that you print your top 10 longest comments on this platform and show it to them when they start asking about whether you have deep knowledge about special interests 🫠.