grysbok
I’m a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy after Rexxit 2023. I’ve had an account on sdf.org since 2009 (under a different username), and so I chose this instance out of a sense of nostalgia. I do all sorts of fiber arts (knitting, cross stitch, sewing) and love dogs.
You don’t have to have dysphoria to be trans. It’s perfectly fine to transition or not transition. Transitioning is scary but can also be pretty empowering if it’s right for you. You didn’t have to transition in all circumstances at the same time–i was out for years with my friends before asking my coworkers to use my new pronouns. It’s ok to transition in your 30s. It’s definitely easier in some ways to let people treat you as your birth-assigned gender, but can mentally/emotionally be harder.
My background: non-binary, figured my crap out at 30, finally changed my name and started using appropriate pronouns at work at almost 40. I haven’t done anything medical because I’m ok with my body as-is and I can’t be arsed to figure out a new system of clothing myself.
(not OP) My only complaint with levers is that I snag my pockets on them. This might be peculiar to my pocket-height. Is there a more accessible door handle style that is less snaggy than levers? I’ll do me a web search.
Also, jerk cats can figure out how to open them. Then again, what sort of monster would try and keep a cat out of somewhere /s
Sidenote: I bought my condo from an elderly lady and I love the accessibility features that were installed for her: night lights all up the stairs and in the upstairs bath, really sturdy grab bars in the bath. I highly recommend bath grab bars.
And sometimes those recommendations get implemented in awful ways in public buildings. And that’s why my office will be hot and humid when I get to work on Monday–the A/C gets turned off over the weekend and it takes forever to catch up on Monday. Never mind that I work in a library and books do not deal well with changing temperature and (especially) high humidity.
I guess my brother has been a NEET most of his adult life. He’s been in jail, rehab, or living at our parents’ almost since he was born. He’s occasionally had a job, but probation made that hard. IIRC he had to call up his probation officer every morning to find out if he had to drive a county over for a random drug screening that day, which would eat 3+ hours. It’s hard to hold down a fast food gig if you can’t plan your hours a day in advance.
Legit. I’m agender, but also accept the non-binary and trans labels. It’s like an Euler diagram of concentric circles for me, though I understand others see the overlaps differently.
I’m not likely to go on hormones or change my gender presentation. I like my body. It’s practical and my clothes fit it. I also hate clothes shopping, so getting a whole new wardrobe for a body whose shape I’m uncertain of sounds like a nightmare. I have enough problems bra shopping.
I am changing my name to be less gendered, and that feels right. I also use they/she at work, and advocate for trans issues when they come up.
MS-DOS 5 or 6. I guess technically I used whatever Apple IIes had, first, but really I just loaded games from disk.