Pride Profile Challenge 2022

Okay, here we go.

Hello. My name is Dib. I am a gay trans boy and also a struggling artist. I noticed this #PrideProfile2022 challenge being posted in this community and decided to in, because I like this kind of stuff.

What else could I say in an introduction? Uh, I like cats, and, uh, dragons? I'm also an average The Owl House enjoyer, and Invader-Zim-fixated fanboy?

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:sparkles: How did you find out you're LGBT? :sparkles:

Ohh, this one is fun and a long one. I found out a bit late actually, especially for the amount of rainbow-colored flags I encountered in my life. I started considering it only when I messed up my own pronouns at school when I was 18 (my language has every noun, verb and adjective gendered). And then I only realised that I wasn't cis because I used to roleplay with my friend back then (this rp is still going strong btw) as a trans boy, so I was doing a lot of research on transition and dysphoria. Little did I know I was experiencing dysphoria myself for a few years at that point. I writing a post on r/asktransgender, that basically said "help, I think I'm trans but I don't have dysphoria" and then proceeded to describe precisely what gender dysphoria feels like.

I had the luck to be accepted and ed by all of my friends, the old and the new ones (well, with mixed results). They are so wholesome and I love them so much, even if we don't stay in touch as much as I'd like to.

My parents tho are another story. At first, they didn't want to hear about it at all when I initially came out in December 2020. Some of the things they told me and the way they looked at me... Those things may have been... traumatic for me? Not that I wasn't expecting them to say anything hurtful, I just never knew how much it would hurt. I still haven't forgiven them. I told them nothing for the next year, making my own research and figuring out, who I am, and soon my self-diagnosis turned from "gender-fluid" to "transmasculine" and finally to full binary trans man. I attempted to come out again, while drunk, on New Years Eve 2021/22 at 4 am through a text message. And then again, quite recently.

My father is visibly conflicted, he straight-up told me he thinks I'm abnormal and I'll be ostracized from society if I go through with it, but mostly doesn't want me to get hurt. My mother tries to gaslight me with either telling me I'm autistic and too incapable to make a decision like this at the age of 20, or telling me I'm too insecure and depressed to make a decision like this at the age of 20. She's not a bad mom, I don't even know if she realizes what she's doing is gaslighting. She's concerned as well, but, as you can tell I am not the most thrilled by being treated like an incapable idiot. But they can't really stop me at this point.

:sparkles: Why did you our community? :sparkles:

This is going to sound shallow but I was banned on facebook that has the most reliable part of my net. I already had so many bans at this point, most undeserved, I decided I don't like that Zucker guy anymore. I ed Amino and that I abandoned it a few years ago, after my fixation with Warrior Cats ed and it was replaced with Pokemon. But I it to be a very positive and safe place, so I came back. I also was hoping to sell commissions, because I am so broke and I need so much money for my doctor appointments, and also my country is undergoing a crisis and everything costs 30% more.

:sparkles: Why did you pick these images/theme? :sparkles:

Now, it's quite simple. If my profile is supposed to represent me, what can represent myself better than my own art (and a dinosaur that isn't my art)? As to why I chose a blue kobold creature as my avatar, I kinda identify with this body type? It's hard to explain, but yeah. I also commissioned this design from limosia and I think it looks really cool.

:sparkles: Why did you choose that bio? :sparkles:

I talk too much, I had to condense it to convey all the information I wanted people to know in a digestible manner.

:sparkles: How would your ideal Pride parade look like? :sparkles:

Hard to tell, never been to any. I'm also not too fond of public events. But I was hoping to go to one with my university friends. Most of us in our year is queer, so it would be amazing if I could take that huge trans flag I bought a while back, make it a cape and go with them and have fun.

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Yeah, so my conclusion is that I'm not that interesting and yet I still talk too much about myself. Don't worry, I'm annoyed by this just as much as you are.