And good luck with the holiday stress! ^__^

The state Vocational Rehabilitation office I've been working with recently allowed (and paid for) me to see a therapist. While the overt reasons are for treatment of 1) Depression (disthymia specifically, though with major depressive episodes), 2) Asperger's, and 3) ADHD-inattentive, it was pretty much understood by both my advisor and the therapist I eventually selected (I shopped for about 3 weeks ^^; ) that one of the major causes of the depression was my gender "issues". To wit, on my first meeting with him, my therapist fielded the idea of hormones, without any prompting. ^__^ At this point, he's said that he will send me to a doctor he works with for the prescriptions as soon as I can find a way of paying for them. While this >is< still an issue, it may not be for much longer: I'm applying (again) for Medicaid, this time with the official diagnosis of at least three issues they recognize as "disabilities", and even if that falls through, one of my friends offered to help in return for tutoring. As I've already been tutoring her (a lot), that isn't a problem.

Now, if only I can actually get to a support group offered by the Utah Pride Center. >.< Every attempt to go since the first has either ended with deep suspicion on the part of people in a position to kick me out onto the street if they catch me "doing something perverted", or with others, in a similar position, demanding that I sacrifice any and all plans in order to perform random tasks for them. >.< Oh, yeah, and the holiday stress too. ^^;