I was wondering how people here came to accept the cross dressing part of their personality. Or what was the process of you coming out as far as you have in your cross dressing voyage of discovery.
There are certain pivotal moments in my cross dressing that I think I will always remember.
1. As a very young boy around 4 or 5 I remember my mom letting me dress up in her clothes which I enjoyed.
2. Age 14 I was visiting an aunt on vacation and found her lingerie while she was at work. I dressed up in her stockings and corset. I was hooked!
3. Age 14 My best friend and I start cross dressing together.
4. Age 17 I bought my first garter belt and stockings (black of course) from a lingerie store.
5. I throw the garter belt and stockings away out of shame and guilt. The first, but not the last time I would purge my fem. clothes.
6. Age 22 I tell the sales assistant at the lingerie store I am looking for lingerie for myself. First time I tried being honest at a store about who I was buying the lingerie for.
7. Age 27/28 I share with sponsor in AA that I was a cross dresser. First person I had told not including friend from when I was 14 who I lost contact with. I was terrified my AA sponsor, a person who knew me well, at the time would not accept me. Of course he did not mind that I cross dressed at all. The fear was all in my head.
8. Met an amazing woman who accepted and encouraged my dressing. We did not last as a couple but I will never forget her.
9. Age 32 while in the army in Germany I bought a very short mini dress and lingerie. When off duty I went into town dressed and had my face wrapped in scarves so nobody could see me. This was my first time in public dressed. I was afraid but also excited.
10. Meeting partners for the first time while dressed in Belgium.
11. Going clubbing while dressed for the first time. This occurred in the U.S. and I loved it.
12. Visiting Rain in NYC for a professional makeover. I then went to an AA meeting in the Village dressed. It was a fantastic time.
13. Coming out to my wife that I am a cross dresser and her accepting it.
So these are the highlights that I consider the most important in my cross dressing journey so far. I am sure I still have a long way to go.
There are my highlights. What are or were yours?