Updating my former life
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transI was just updating my friends reunited entry today. It's well out of date, but I felt it was time to start going through my former life that genetics forced me to live as some-one else and own up to the world what I have really been going through. It's kind of liberating to be able to come clean to the world; it lifts a great weight from my shoulders.
I have no idea what they'll make of it, or whether they will care, or even bother to read it to find out. I guess there's a handfull of people who already knew because I've 'come out' to them over the last year as I've made the big decisions. But for others, including ex-girlfriends I suspect it would come as quite a shock. Well, some of them frankly deserve to be shocked because of their backward and opinionated views at the time. Others - it was nothing personal. I suppose it was just too big a thing to admit to until I'd realised that I wasn't alone in this world.
To save me having to admit what his name was for you to go looking, here's the entry for the benefit of LJ readers:
"The last 12 months have been the scarriest I have ever been through. For those of you who knew me especially well it will come as no suprise to learn that I have finally come clean to the world about who I really am. I've had to make many big decisions with regard to my life, and have finally taken the last step in a chain I have been secretly following since late 1997. In the unlikely event you wish to know more, the best port of call is my website or Live Journal (my LJ user is JennyEmily).
To those of you I never told; don't take it personally. It wasn't you, it was more likely my own fear of the unknown that stopped me being honest."
I toyed with changing the name in my entry to my name, but decided against it in the end as how would any of my former schoolfriends know that the person they used to know was me.
It's a tricky business tying up the loose ends of my former life. Take banking for example: perhaps I should get a joint account between me and him. Can I do that? Given that technically he and I are the same person. Perhaps I should marry him for the tax breaks ;)
I have no idea what they'll make of it, or whether they will care, or even bother to read it to find out. I guess there's a handfull of people who already knew because I've 'come out' to them over the last year as I've made the big decisions. But for others, including ex-girlfriends I suspect it would come as quite a shock. Well, some of them frankly deserve to be shocked because of their backward and opinionated views at the time. Others - it was nothing personal. I suppose it was just too big a thing to admit to until I'd realised that I wasn't alone in this world.
To save me having to admit what his name was for you to go looking, here's the entry for the benefit of LJ readers:
"The last 12 months have been the scarriest I have ever been through. For those of you who knew me especially well it will come as no suprise to learn that I have finally come clean to the world about who I really am. I've had to make many big decisions with regard to my life, and have finally taken the last step in a chain I have been secretly following since late 1997. In the unlikely event you wish to know more, the best port of call is my website or Live Journal (my LJ user is JennyEmily).
To those of you I never told; don't take it personally. It wasn't you, it was more likely my own fear of the unknown that stopped me being honest."
I toyed with changing the name in my entry to my name, but decided against it in the end as how would any of my former schoolfriends know that the person they used to know was me.
It's a tricky business tying up the loose ends of my former life. Take banking for example: perhaps I should get a joint account between me and him. Can I do that? Given that technically he and I are the same person. Perhaps I should marry him for the tax breaks ;)