Out of the deck

Hello everyone. I hope you're all having a stress-free, pleasant month so far. My name is Alexis, or Lex, either's fine. This is just my introduction post, I don't really have anything important to say. I guess I'll tell you lot about my coming out stories. Okay, so I've always been a little obvious about my aversion to romance/sex and discussion about it.

I can't recall exact dates because my memory is terrible due to something that happened in my childhood, but I remember the times vaguely. It was sometime in 2013 that my oldest sister came across the word 'asexual' and we had a long talk about it. I looked up more about it later and eventually I came to use it for myself, but I still occasionally struggle with the knowledge that I'm not straight like I thought.

It was much later that I started questioning my romantic orientation and gender identity. In the beginning of 2015, I hesitantly began using 'biromantic' to describe myself, but a bit later, I discovered 'quoiromantic', and thought that fit, because I was unsure of my orientation. Eventually I just gave up and decided to call myself queer/gay. Around July of 2015, I learned the term 'genderfluid' and I thought this was what I was, because I began openly dressing in my brother's hand-me-downs and I imagined I was him while I wore his clothes, but people were still calling me she and her, and I thought that's how it was supposed to be. For a month, I used it, because I was always scared to label myself trans. I thought I had no right to use it. August of 2015 came around and I said, 'fuck it, I'm using transman'.

It was in September that I came out to my siblings. November-January, to my friends (it was a slow process because I have anxiety and kept talking myself out of it and making up worst possible scenarios in my head). Yesterday, I emailed a new professor I'm going to have. The next step is my extended family. When that will be, I've no idea.

Well, more about me I guess! I'm about to enter my second semester, still my first year, of community college, studying psychology. I'm an atheist. I'm obsessed with Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Steven Universe. I like using tumblr. I like to play Skyrim, Dragon Age, and Grand Theft Auto Five. My favorite color is green. I was born with asthma. I'm near-sighted and wear glasses. I can't do basic math. My favorite subject in school was history. I like listening to Halsey and Twenty One Pilots. Wolves are my favorite animals.

Thank you for reading my long-winded post; I didn't intend for it to be that long. I hope I can make some friends on here.

 

Thank you everyone for all your warm welcomes! Nate, that's pretty rad we share similar interests! Thanks Riz for saying I'm nice, lol. Not a lot of people tell me that. xD