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Linda (she/her)

naga@toot.cat

<p>&quot;Linda&quot; is newly my name. I&#39;ve been &quot;Naga&quot; or &quot;Pat&quot; before (leaving this here for now for ease of continuity, and neither of them is exactly male-coded).</p><p>I&#39;m a disabled (severe <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/MECFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MECFS</span></a>), <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/ActuallyAutistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a>, queer, white, <a href="https://toot.cat/tags/TransWoman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TransWoman</span></a> in my 50s, living in North Carolina in the US.</p><p>Queer, in my case -&gt; Something not readily defined or labeled, as opposed to Queer -&gt; fuck you. Having spent most of my life looking to the world like a cis-het man, I don&#39;t fe

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  • Post #3444669

    I just came out as trans to my sister. I&#39;m the youngest of three -- she&#39;s the eldest at a bit more than four years older me, our brother a year after her. A text chat -- I wanted to tell her, but wasn&#39;t sure how I&#39;d muster the courage in video. She felt safest among my family of origin. It went well, and we&#39;ll chat by video another time. Her: &quot;So I now have a sister?&quot; Me: &quot;You do!&quot; Her: &quot;&quot;Awesome. Always wanted one of those.&quot; #TransJoy...

  • Post #2544230

    I just ran across a very cool way for a form to accept your name if it differs from the name on the ID. Suffolk (Virginia, US) library&#39;s application for a digital card asks for: Name Name on ID (if it differs) And a checkbox to use &quot;Name on ID&quot; for communications. The checkbox defaults to off.

  • Post #2020527

    Following up on my #GenderQuest threads (here https://toot.cat/@naga/116091924889943010 and here https://toot.cat/@naga/116223633843084229 ) Most recently, I shifted my identity label to demimale. I&#39;ve been looking at whether I might be less male / possibly more female than I&#39;d been considering. I do get some kind of euphoria from skirts in a couple specific styles, as well as just a general enjoyment of dressing femme. I also enjoy lip stain and nail polish, but I can&#39;t apply tho...

  • Post #2020523

    As of 5-May-26, #GenderQuest is a set of threads related to my movement from cis man to demiman to considering being less man and possibly more woman than I&#39;d thought before. I&#39;m pinning this with links to each of the thread starters, to edit as things progress. Initial wondering (18-Feb-26): https://toot.cat/@naga/116091924889943010 Grief about GenderQuest and chronic illness (13-Mar-26): https://toot.cat/@naga/116223633843084229 Exploring potential womanhood (4-May-26): https://too...

  • Post #1672316

    #Prosopagnosia can be a real problem for me in real life. Llike not recognizing Jalan, my now-wife-then-girlfriend even when she sat down across from me in the restaurant we were meeting at -- because she&#39;d flat-ironed her hair. But also in TV and movies. Something I watched yesterday had a shot of somebody literally taking off a mask and I was wrong about which character it was, sending me down rabbit trails of looking for deception and layers in the wrong character. This is why I read e...

  • Post #503134

    #Introduction I&#39;m Naga. My full screen name is &quot;Naga di Kandang,&quot; translating as &quot;Dragon in a Cage.&quot; I&#39;m disabled and unable to work with severe ME/CFS (tipping toward very severe). Also POTS, MCAS, bipolar disorder, anxiety, and other fun things. Autism, but I don&#39;t consider that in my case as part of being disabled. When I worked, I was a social and quantitative psychologist and a statistical consultant. ME/CFS put an end to that. Now I&#39;m focused on enter...