Early identification of GID
This is really important to me and I need a real answer, not just one that someone shoots out their butt. I am hoping that there is a psych person lurking here, please?
I knew I was female at 4, like many of us. I experienced such savagery that I quickly found out that to live I would have to hide her, and I did, so deeply that I forgot she was even there.
Skip ahead around 30 years, and my wife and I had gone to a counselor to see if there was some help for my melancholy. It wasn't actually depression I reasoned. I thought I was just naturally one of those calm, never laughing people. They exist, right?
I quickly figured out that the Kaiser Permanente counselor was as useless as tits on a bull, so we went to see one privately. I think on the second visit, she told me that I was suffering from GID. On the first visit, she had given me a book called "Co-dependent No More", so on the next visit she asked me how reading the book had gone. I told her that out of about 12 items on a check list in the book, I had 11 of them.
Toward the end of the second visit, she suddenly blurted out that she felt I had Gender Identity Dysphoria. She said, right in front of my wife of 15 years that I should be living as a woman. This was around 1980. I remembered nothing about my childhood abuse, my coming out, my trying to dress as a girl. We quickly sought out another counselor, a christian one, because we knew that this previous counselor was in league with the devil.
Can someone identify you as GID that fast? Really? I was doing my best at being a tough, gruff electrician.
The next counselor was a fruit cake. He put me in a group for Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse. And then is when I started to remember things, and in a few weeks it all came flooding in.
Well, it took another 25 years but it was stupid to fight it off. By Early 2005 I was living as a woman. Though I had been slowly working up to it since around 1990.
Is GID that obvious? Can someone identify it in you when you do not even know yourself?