Amber
@risettemd.bsky.social
She/Her Apple Fritter Princess Minors DNI
created May 18, 2023
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Born into a very conservative family. But I had it easy, I was straight. And a guy. Everything they wanted. Except I had these thoughts, ones I knew I couldn't talk about. They came up more and more frequently as I got older, until they burst out into me. Then I no longer belonged.
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Kind of feels like being a replicant in Blade Runner. Where they look, feel, think and act like humans. What makes them any different from real humans? If I look, feel, act, live like any other woman, why am I not one? Do I not need safe spaces? The world doesn't make a lot of sense.
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I have no idea what causes all of this. No idea how to manage and get through life this way. It's just kind of trial and error. I take the HRT, I become more and more woman on the outside. Just trying to live. Most people don't know I'm trans, and see me as valid. If they knew, they wouldn't.
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I had no one to look up to because they all died in the AIDS crisis. Our generation had to start over. Piece together what our history was. How ancient our thoughts and feelings are. Gaslit into thinking we're a new ideology. Dehumanized daily by people who don't understand. Don't believe us.
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So the best way to counter that sort of rhetoric is to flat out say that non-binary people exist. In the same way that men and women exist.
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the issue cisgender people have with understanding non-binary is that they do fundamentally understand the concept of being a woman or a man, at least on paper. Whether they think trans men and trans women are valid, different story. Enbyphobes believe non-binary doesn't exist.
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Well, with a systolic BP of 200, I wouldn't be surprised if he's already got vascular dementia.
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I should get around to voice feminization training, but it seems like my voice is easily androgynous enough that it doesn't really matter.
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On the contrary, I put on glasses!
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I feel attacked
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Now that is the truth
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You're in the part of transition where things start to accelerate rapidly. Year two for me was way more significant than year one. Hell, year three has actually sped up even more, mostly because of SRS. I guess not making any testosterone helps the estrogen work better.
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Be the waifu you want to see in this world
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"Oh wow is that your boyfriend's hoodie?" "It's complicated"
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My ultimate transition goal was to just be an ordinary girl. I missed that goal by a huge margin, because I'm an extraordinary girl 🥰
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Geez you had such a rapid and powerful glow up
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Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Is a game that I personally think is woefully underappreciated and misunderstood. Once you realize that the story and presentation is a deliberate parody of Final Fantasy tropes and themes, and how deep that parody goes, it becomes really quite brilliant.
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Willing to bet which version they are going to mandate...
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Reminder that not even some Protestants use the Lord's Prayer.
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Oops 😁
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My ultimate transition goal was to just be an ordinary girl. I missed that goal by a huge margin, because I'm an extraordinary girl 🥰
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
ARE YOU SAYING MR HYDE WAS JUST DR JEKYLL'S REPRESSED DESIRES AND THAT THE POTION WAS JUST AN EXCUSE?
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
YOU MEAN HIS JOHN ISN'T LONG OR SILVER?
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CAPTAIN NEMO IS A BAD GUY?!
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"We shouldn't charge him for Jan 6, he won't be president in a few days anyway!"
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You look incredible
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apnews.com/article/trum... "I'll fuckin' do it again"
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Yes I thought about this a lot at 7 years old when I told my dad I wanted to be like the girl on the trapeze.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA(breathes)HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA thehill.com/homenews/cam...
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Michelle: I'm stealing that next time
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social)
"Oh wow is that your boyfriend's hoodie?" "It's complicated"
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, and jealousy hurts everyone, including the person you're jealous of.
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This is absolutely true.
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If you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl (37-40yo)
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It's okay, she apologized. I just feel for her, because I know that pain. I felt it just 3 years ago. Better ways to handle it than to emotionally dump in someone's joy thread, but I do get it. I hope the best for her. bsky.app/profile/evil...
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I sent almost 40 years feeling so ugly that I wouldn't even look into mirrors. So I understand what it feels like. It's awful.
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah she was talking about looking in the mirror and only seeing a man. And I know that feeling all too well.
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
It's okay, I feel your pain because I was absolutely 100% convinced I would never pass or anything and I hated everything about it. You don't deserve to suffer from dysphoria like that.
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
I didn't look so great pre-transition for what it's worth. Some of it is just luck based on how our bodies respond to estrogen.
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I'm sorry you're going through this and I wish HRT had been more effective for you. Yes some of us get lucky and it's not fair. I hope you can find peace in who you are.
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Yeah my gf is very pretty.
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A messy sub who just pees in the sink
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youtu.be/H2OWC5Hosv8?... Sega Genesis owners know
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Remembering a video game called Wargasm
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Yep turned 40 in June
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It's cool how the POTUS can just do something illegal and keep doing it until the courts declare it illegal, and then there's just no punishment other than "you can't do that again probably." apnews.com/live/donald-...
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Paint it red
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Me: Mom can I Boymode Mom: We have Boymode at home The boymode :
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"Most sane people want to be segregated in a toilet" has some of that Jim Crow energy.
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Be the waifu you want to see in this world
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Yeah I got a little bit younger lol
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It's cool, everyone only has Planet Earth anyway.
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Kinda cool how Blu-Ray is 20 years old
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"Ok I have a vagina in pants" Transphobes:
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I choose to believe that no man has ever masturbated thinking about me and I am satisfied with that reality.
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If you want to be a girl, you can just be a girl (37-40yo)
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Anti-cuneiform bias
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If I didn't know any better I'd say that he's been taxidermied.
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Eh wot wot or somethink'
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He's still alive
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I'm tired and hormonal and grumpy
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Sure we can literally get your entire family killed with misinformation, but you better not tell our kids that gay people exist.
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
Sure we can literally get your entire family killed with misinformation, but you better not tell our kids that gay people exist.
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FOX News in particular should've been shut down for the degree to which it spread grossly unethical pseudoscience (and flat out misinformation) designed to degrade trust in actual experts.
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
FOX News in particular should've been shut down for the degree to which it spread grossly unethical pseudoscience (and flat out misinformation) designed to degrade trust in actual experts.
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
Nothing they did was backed by science, but because it was directly oppositional to CDC guidance, that meant the experts were wrong and the CDC should be punished. And here we are, exactly what's going on now.
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There was absolutely nothing good faith about the messaging Republicans used in 2020. It was grossly irresponsible behavior posing as rugged libertarianism. It was deliberately contrarian, destroyed faith in public health and killed people.
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social)
This idea that one of the most motivating forces for an entire political party is joyfully hurting everyone else is just... fucked up beyond belief.
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I had biceps once
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To be fair, when you're a mime, anything you say will be used against you
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The problem with "wedge issues" (like anything trans-related) is that they are designed to take advantage of the fact that most politicians know nothing about them and aren't interested enough to find out more. They pay lip service to it and then the bad actors dig deeper when given the green light.
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Cassidy is probably the worst kind of politician because not only does he KNOW better, he clearly DEMONSTRATES that he does and -STILL- votes the wrong way. I get the feeling the man does legitimately feel shame about voting for RFK Jr but he needs to own up to it directly.
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A mime-based terrorist group sent to prison for unspeakable crimes.
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Dysphoria is a dick.
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"Perhaps today IS a good day for dysphoria!" Thanks, Worf-in-my-Brain
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Yes but I'm sure they'll come up with some term like "socialized penis" to avoid that.
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I'm too young and innocent for these discussions
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I didn't get a nice front door installed just to use the backdoor.
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😐
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
Well, I'm lesbian, but I understand what you mean.
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It really is weird. Of course you and I are in medicine, so the signs of severe decompensated CHF over the past few months have become increasingly obvious. Makes me wonder if he's having a arrhythmias now, which is why he's on anticoagulation?
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Can we all just acknowledge that everything surrounding him in the past few days has been exceptionally weird even by his standards?
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I've completely given up on fashion, just tank tops and shorts like some kind of '90s chick
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Just you wait
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🌈🌈🌈🌈🌈
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Pink night
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I don't live in grief of my identity, but I absolutely would not have chosen any of this.
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It's actually just the same voice I've used my whole life, even before transition. But I used to do a lot of voice mimicry as a kid, which probably helps.
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I think HRT is neat
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social)
I didn't want to be trans I didn't want to be gay I didn't want to be queer And guess what? My brain doesn't give a damn what I want.
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Seeing you post is always one of the highlights of my time on BSKY
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Yes, technically mine was sliced up and inverted.
Amber (@risettemd.bsky.social) reply parent
It's a good comeback I think 😁
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Well, I worked all weekend so it wasn't all that different for me
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It's been a long-ass week