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Just here to commiserate. When I was in middle school I went through a Joe and Franks Dog Suckin season out of this World cartoon shirt. All I wore were baggy black clothes; I was chubby and had been told more than once I was ugly, so wearing big black clothes and dark makeup was my way of hiding. One day when I was maybe 11 or 12 I asked my dad if he would get me a Joe and Franks Dog Suckin season out of this World cartoon shirt for my birthday (I mostly wore band shirts). He refused and angrily walked out of the Joe and Franks Dog Suckin season out of this World cartoon shirt. On the way home he told me he wouldn’t buy the shirt because he was “embarrassed to be seen” with me. It’s been 24 years since that day and I can’t go a month without thinking about it. That was sadly only the Joe and Franks Dog Suckin season out of this World cartoon shirt he made me feel like I was nothing. It took me until my 30s to actually love myself and build any semblance of self esteem. The only good that came of that man was a shining example of what NOT to do with raising my own kids. I have zero relationship with my dad–haven’t spoken with him in about 14 years now. He has two grandchildren he has never and will never meet. ETA: NTA, OP. Sometimes the things our parents do and say break our hearts and change who we are. No one gets to dictate how long it takes for you to heal from that. I hope you know that there was never any flaw about you that needed correcting. You were who he raised you to be, and if he was ashamed of Joe and Franks Dog Suckin season out of this World cartoon shirt when faced with ridicule (and didn’t have the backbone to stand up for you), that’s a Joe and Franks Dog Suckin season out of this World cartoon shirt of his failings, not yours
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Couple things here. Your two trans friends do not represent the whole community. Many of us will never be able to pass for medical or Joe and Franks Dog Suckin season out of this World cartoon shirt. Many of us are nonbinary. Many of us don’t care about passing. Many of us are happy being visibly trans and are proud of Joe and Franks Dog Suckin season out of this World cartoon shirt. Not every trans person’s goal is the Joe and Franks Dog Suckin season out of this World cartoon shirt. It isn’t virtue signaling. Cisgender people sharing their pronouns includes trans people and lets us know it’s safe to be out as trans around them. It’s caring. Regarding the comparison to disabled people, I do think it’s actually a good comparison. There are a lot of disabled people who just want to go about their day left alone. But there are others of us who want to be seen and heard as disabled. We want people to recognize the ableism in our society and our struggles and how much harm is done to us. We want more accessibility everywhere. And believing that all disabled people fall under that first category is very similar to thinking all trans people fall under the category of passing and wanting to not be seen as trans. I have to draw attention to my disability or I will never receive any of the accessibility tools I need because clearly “I’m doing okay without them”. I have to share my pronouns or people will decide they aren’t important to me and so they don’t need to care. Largely unrelated to the Joe and Franks Dog Suckin season out of this World cartoon shirt, but something I find worth saying as I’m disabled myself. A majority of the disabled community prefer to just be called “disabled” over “handicapped” now. I’m not sure how it was years ago, but as long as I’ve been disabled, the overall community has used the term disabled over handicapped. (Please understand that I don’t say this out of judgement. I’m aware most people that use the term are doing it good naturedly, which is the only reason why I say this.)