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My updates have been a bit sparse of late - have been doing lots of stuff, but haven't felt motivated to write about it. Hopefully that will change soon, but whatever - I blame it on the heat and humidity, it seems to just make me want to power save.

Anyway, I just had to share this link about a cross-dressing teenager from The Guardian (yes, I know), which [livejournal.com profile] alicephilippa pointed me at. It's a problem page thingee, and a man has written in to talk about discovering that his teenage son (probably) has been stealing his wife's clothes:

My wife has had some items of clothing go missing over the last few months, which baffled us. A few weeks ago, she went into our 15-year-old son's bedroom to wake him up and thought he was wearing tights and a skirt in bed. While he was at school we discovered a stash of her clothes concealed in his wardrobe...


I'm sure many trans women on my friends list had a reaction similar to mine upon reading this, which was, "This person is doing it wrong, I always put them back."

Originally posted at http://auntysarah.dreamwidth.org/208066.html - you can comment here or there.

Date: 2009-08-20 11:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] the-local-echo.livejournal.com
The parents ought to give the kid this book for Christmas:

http://www.greenerypress.com/lazy.htm

Date: 2009-08-20 11:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] georgia-thomson.livejournal.com
i always put them back, but it was never my mother's. friends stuff, yeah, even a cousin's stuff, but never my mum's.

Date: 2009-08-20 11:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] hollykitten.livejournal.com
Ha! My Mums and my sister's clothes all sucked, big time >_<

Friend's sister's stuff, however ...

Date: 2009-08-20 12:53 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] agent_dani
Same could be said for my mothers, but, alas, hers were the only accessible to me as I only had one brother and parental restrictions effectively meant there was no going to friends' houses, etc.

Things got better when I found a long-neglected stash of my mother's pre-pregnancy clothes. In spite of it being early 1970s fashions...

Date: 2009-08-20 12:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phonemonkey.livejournal.com
I thought that everyone under the age of 18 knew that anything you weren't supposed to have had to be replaced exactly as it was.

And that where consumables are concerned, it will be noticed if you filch the first biscuit in the packet or the last biscuit in the packet, but any of the others are fair game. The same applies to cigarettes and Valium.

Date: 2009-08-20 12:44 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] auntysarah.livejournal.com
The same applies to cigarettes and Valium.

Never smoked, but I know exactly how many Valium pills I have left.
My precious...

Date: 2009-08-20 12:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phonemonkey.livejournal.com
My mother had a huge bottle and she didn't particularly like taking them, so she never really kept track.

Date: 2009-08-20 12:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] auntysarah.livejournal.com
My mother regards them as the ultimate evil, ZOMG!!!, dangerous addictive drug, so if she's even given any by her GP, she throws the script away.

She consumes considerably more alcohol than I do though. Given that they're both GABA agonist drugs, and that the alcohol is likely doing her liver far more harm than any amount of Valium will, I think she has some odd ideas.

Date: 2009-08-20 12:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phonemonkey.livejournal.com
Mine threw out all the Valium in the house at the point when it was obvious to us all that she wouldn't need it anymore because the SSRIs were working well. Such a waste...

Date: 2009-08-20 01:00 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] auntysarah.livejournal.com
Throwing away benzos is like burning books.

Date: 2009-08-20 01:09 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] phonemonkey.livejournal.com
I can actually understand why Mum threw them out. Her sister got badly addicted to them back when they were commonly prescribed as sleeping-pills, and has been through multiple horrible withdrawals and relapses. Mum's mental illness was affecting her ability to sleep, and I think she thought that having instant sleep around in the form of Valium was just too tempting.

But still, they could have been given to ME!

Date: 2009-08-20 01:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] auntysarah.livejournal.com
But still, they could have been given to ME!

Quite - I have a personal rule - avoid taking them two consecutive days (which I've broken on fewer than five occasions), and never more than two days out of three, which I've never broken.

I generally make a prescription for 28 2mg diazepam last about 5-6 months.

Date: 2009-08-20 02:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] alicephilippa.livejournal.com
Ho yus. Which is why I still have 18 2mg and 6 5mg tabs and 14 6.75mg zopiclone. GP gave me the zopis on condition that I threw the valium away.

IHTS that I've never found valium to help in inducing sleep, relaxation and calm yes, sleep no.

Date: 2009-08-20 02:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snakey.livejournal.com
My mother pinches mine!

Date: 2009-08-20 12:50 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] agent_dani
One of the few times I was caught was for the "exactly as it were" problem - I'd left a drawer open slightly, probably about 1/8" away from completely closed.

Date: 2009-08-20 12:51 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] auntysarah.livejournal.com
I guess they already suspected you then?

Date: 2009-08-20 05:22 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] agent_dani
I'm pretty sure dad didn't as he never gave me any indication he did and he didn't generally sit on such things. He was the sort to blow-up at me if given a sliver of a reason (hence the ginger ale incident I mentioned in chat weeks ago.) My mother could have been another story but I'm doubtful as if she suspected it probably would have been mentioned to dad.

I was probably single or early double-digit ages at the time. Learned to be very careful.

Smile&nod on consumables getting us busted.

Date: 2009-08-20 04:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capybyra.livejournal.com
I "borrowed" some things from mom and others from my sister till I became comfortable enough to shop for myself. Whih was about 15 or so.

I have extremely warm&close memories of how my mother handled one such "using things of hers" What it was-edges on TMI and I've shared the incident with some elljay folks etc. So snipping overt mention unless anyone becomes curious enough to ask, well-

Mom found me out from not knowing the care of and after use details for some femme things. She was more amused and lovingly interested in my thoughts. About what my reasons were. Reasons for the several sets of things she'd been patiently watching me experiment with. Well- it took me YEARS of introspection and doubting my memories to risk asking her if I was recalling the most overt talk we had- and several variant ones. Most raised by discoveries of some careless lapse. Or normal routines of hers inadvertently uncovering that which I "thought" hidden well enough. The summary was- Mom was then-and now- more concerned for my overall health both mental and physical than any other factor. She said her amusement over what I'd been doing more than repaid for the expenses of consumables too...

I do so hope I've not gone overlong as a guest...

Re: Smile&nod on consumables getting us busted.

Date: 2009-08-20 05:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] georgia-thomson.livejournal.com
ok, although i have NO idea who you are, you intrigued me, so do tell, please :)

It was feminine hygiene items...

Date: 2009-08-20 10:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] capybyra.livejournal.com
Improper disposal-of tampons.. and improper washup of her douche bag... some Details of that- and her putting makeup on me- are in my journal as today's entry:>

Date: 2009-08-20 04:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kimberamber.livejournal.com
I have gotten frightfully good at returning things exactly and knabbing thing just before they were thrown out...over time I just gave up and bought my own hose though...too many runs.

Date: 2009-08-20 05:29 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] agent_dani
I got good at returning things exactly due to the incident up-thread. In my youth, though, I wasn't able to grab stuff on its way out or get my own for various reasons, not the least of which was a fairly early realization that my parents and/or brother were frequently (possibly as often as daily) searching my room.

Date: 2009-08-20 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blahflowers.livejournal.com
As a sci-fi geek I started compiling a list of the times I was alone in the house, my reasoning being that when I grew up and we all had time machines I would travel back in time and pass the list on to my younger self so that I could happily cross-dress while home alone and not have to keep a weather eye out the window for unexpected parental returnage. I think I kept this up for about eight months before realising that causing a temporal paradox that might destroy the universe for the sake of feeling happy was perhaps a mite too high a price to pay.

Date: 2009-08-21 07:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] scorpionflail.livejournal.com
Colour me amused, but back in the day my bessie mate and I just went shopping ... aah, the joys of Goffik.

I suppose hearing 'you can just wash those here if you like, you know' after spilling a bag of laundry after I'd got home from their place might have come close to similarly mortifying the first time out though :P.
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