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no-ones-gonna-catch-us-now · 7 days ago

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Something nice from Christmas:

One of my aunts got an airbnb to come up to this area for christmas. there was a plan for the main celebration for that side to be there on the 26th. Great! now, for context, everyone in the family has a personal stocking that my late great-grandma knitted. my brothers got their stocking stuffers in said personal stockings. i got this:

After the gift opening stuff, I asked about it, like, hey what happened to mine? They did have it present and available, but given that its pink with purple accents, with a design of a girl ice skater, and my full feminine first name, my aunts were concerned it might upset me and/or make me dysphoric, so this was a last minute solution

I would not have had an issue with using it (which I did say so during the convo), given nostalgia and the specific stockings being a consistent thing through the years, but I do VERY MUCH appreciate my gender/transness being thought of and respected :]

#mine posts #side note: admittedly I see anyone on moms side including her a couple times a year max #and obviously i dont know if or how they talk about me outside of that #but genuinely it seems like my mom and extended fam on that side respect my gender more than dad sometimes and ESPECIALLY his parents.#all three of whom are the ones i LIVE WITH #a year or two ago mom and her new kids came back to visit and while we were out at lunch (mcdonalds)#our youngest sibling (who had only previously met us as an infant and didnt remember us) got confused by us being called her siblings #she goes 'i only have one brother!' (the one like a year and a half i think older) and mom goes 'no theyre your brothers too'#which was the first time I knew she acknowledged/understood me! when i messaged her abt it all i got was an 'okay' so i wasnt sure before #btw if i call myself a meatball. its bc of this particular little sister and meeting #mom said that and she still went '>:( no' so i asked 'if we aren't your brothers what are we?'#and she stared hard at the brother who was next to me and decided 'meatballs. youre meatballs'#which has become an inside joke between the three of us 'meatball' siblings

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