Help? Please

[awanderingsoul.livejournal.com]

Forgive me if posting here like this is totally inappropriate.

I've been a member of this community for a little while and read many (and varied) supportive and helpful postings.....so, I feel comfortable posting here. (If it's not appropriate, by all means cut this.)

In a nutshell...I'm scared....VERY scared...of a number of things. I won't list them all here....but if you want to know just read my journal...I talk about them in there quite extensively.

The pertinant fears to this community....are fear of knowing if you're doing the right thing....if I truely am who I feel that I am.....how do I go farther......what if I end up alone (that's a huge problem for me)

I feel so lost and lonely right now (not meaning to whine, just trying to give an accurate summation of what's going through my mind at the moment).....I have some friends who are truely supportive of me...but it doesn't feel like enough...for I don't want to become a burden on them.....and emotionally, I've been sinking into deeper and darker regions that I never wanted to go to.

I guess....I shouldn't even be writing this here....but I just...I'm scared....and needed to reach out to someone......help....please :(

Eep.

[trinityquasar.livejournal.com]

I've been out as FTM TG to everyone around me for a month now, except two people: My Mum and Dad.

Why? Because I'm hell scared of telling them. Because everyone's coming out stories to their parents seem so negative. That I fear rejection from two of the most tolerant people in my life.

Does anyone have a good coming out story, or some good advice they can drop my way? A collection of this may help me try and talk to my parents.

Also does anyone know a good site for info to parents that I could use to help them so they can help me through this?

Thank you.

Listening

[jaquiregina.livejournal.com]

National Public Radio has a new program about LGBT issues. I am not sure of the title as I cannot find it on their web site, but it was on from 8 PM to 9 PM tonight. One of the three stories they covered was about a father who transitioned to female and her relationship with her daughter, Noelle. I was pleasantly surprised to hear how well the issues were covered, and I was especially appreciative of the interview with the daughter. I was later amazed to find the that daughter was one of three editors of stories written by the children of gay, lesbian, and transgendered parents: Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up With Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents by Noelle Howey (Editor), Ellen Samuels (Editor), Margarethe Cammermeyer, Dan Savage. I will definitely have to add that to my Amazon wish list.