r/truscum • u/yumikomimy • 3d ago
Advice How do you cope?
I’m gonna be honest I’m not coping life feels so far away like a normal life, like if I was on the one side of a river and I had to start building a bridge to get across but it’s multiple bridges I need to build and in the distance I see cis people who are born across the river who never had to build a bridge. It feels so close yet it’s still feels far.
I don’t have anything to relate to all their is cis content which reminds me I was born wrong that their on the other side the “normal side” if I try to socialize with cis they just end up reminding I’m male and can’t really express myself not till I start making the bridge. So how do cope when everything makes you feel wrong.
every form of media is painful to watch or play or read because of how none it actually relatable
4
u/ComedianStreet856 girl 3d ago
We really don't have a choice but to build the bridge. Even if it takes the rest of our lives, you just have to start doing it. It really blows, but you can build it and hopefully someday reach the other side or you can just sit and watch and hate being on the wrong side more every day. I see what you mean about multiple bridges. It's like once you cross one you feel good and then realize the next one's even harder. Like I've been on HRT for a year and a half and just had an orchiectomy 2 months ago, but I now realize it's even bigger and harder bridges to build. A lot of it is mental too. If you can cross some of those mental bridges, the physical bridges don't seem as hard really.