04-02-2014, 02:55 AM
Right from its beginning, I thought about posting here my own account of my gender odyssey, but one way or another I've already posted much of it in bits and pieces, and I am now far too humbled by the accounts that people have posted here and the truly harrowing difficulties they have endured. By comparison I feel that I have been very lucky, and even when things have looked impossibly bad, help has always eventually emerged, sometimes from very unexpected quarters. Not least of my good fortune was finding this site. What with my stiff upper lip upbringing and other factors, I've always had difficulty in expressing emotional support in a demonstrative way, but believe me, I do feel deeply for all of you who have suffered not only from your gender issues but abuse and misfortune of various other kinds, and please imagine that feeling translated into at least cyber-hugs. 
And thank you Clara and Sammie for doing so well what I can't do at all well. Clara, when I first welcomed you here I had no idea of the insight you would bring to us all, nor did I at first realize how much I would come to appreciate your posts, Sammie.
The thought that we should find some way to say thank-you to Eve has been on my mind also, and was also raised in Sammie's "Are we going to get in trouble thread', but we still have the problem of how to go about it...
And thank you Clara and Sammie for doing so well what I can't do at all well. Clara, when I first welcomed you here I had no idea of the insight you would bring to us all, nor did I at first realize how much I would come to appreciate your posts, Sammie.The thought that we should find some way to say thank-you to Eve has been on my mind also, and was also raised in Sammie's "Are we going to get in trouble thread', but we still have the problem of how to go about it...