Today, I had to google the definition of transsexual just to know what the hell my friends were talking about. I need to read a book. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, after finding out from my psychologist that I have a disability in reading comprehension, I tried to Google how to improve my reading skills. I couldn't understand what any of the articles were saying. FML
Today, I had to use a dictionary before I realized I was being flirted with. FML
Today, a four-year-old said a word that I didn't know the meaning of. I had to look up the definition. FML
Today, I'm dating a trans girl, who is also my best friend. She confessed to me long ago that she was born male, and that wasn't a big deal to me. The problem is that my family is constantly harassing her, because I should have been "with a real girl instead of a monster with severed genitals." FML
Today, I'm a closeted trans man, and I feel terrible every time my family calls me "she" or "girl". Help me, I don't know how to come out. FML
Today, I was staying over at a friend's house for the weekend while the rest of my family goes to Cuba. Her neighbor started hitting on me. As it turns out, "he" was actually born as a "she", and now I'm apparently a transphobic bitch for not being interested. Two more days to go. FML
Today, I finally convinced my mom to read Fight Club. As English isn't her first language, she occasionally asked me to translate some of the words. Her latest question: "What's a dildo?" FML
Today, I had to explain to my mom what an 'LGBT ally' is and that it is entirely possible for a straight cis girl to support the LGBT movement. She thought I was a lesbian because I have rainbow colored and LGBT memorabilia. FML
Today, I went to see my gynecologist. She was writing my symptoms up in my chart on her computer. After a little while, I noticed that she had a confused look on her face and was reading something instead. When I took a peek at the computer screen, I saw that she was Googling my symptoms. FML
Today, the moment I had been fearing for the past few days arrived: my mom asked me if I knew what a groyper was. I don't know what's worse, that I know what they are, or that trying explain the concept is so convoluted, she now thinks I'm making shit up. FML
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Top comments
Greenteamextreme 16
Knowledge is power!
giselle_is_drunk 17
Did you live under a rock for a few years?
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Comments (74)
cricketsins 36
How old are you? I can't imagine anyone older than a young teenager not knowing what a transsexual is nowadays... Regardless, you should be proud of yourself for making an effort to understand what it meant.
tazmanmike2013 17
FML OP. There's nothing wrong with a little innocence, I think the world today needs a little more of it. Now you know, so you have the opportunity to get educated.
Queensland 27
Ok 14. Knowing what a transsexual is doesn't make you less innocent. It makes you know what a transsexual is. That's it.
askullnamedbilly 33
Honestly, I'd even go as far as to say that knowing the word transsexual is COMMON knowledge. There are a lot of very complicated terms describing sexuality and gender identity that not everybody needs to know, but there ARE basics that you should be familiar with. This is one of them.
tazmanmike2013 17
Why was my comment moderated? It wasn't offensive or confrontational. If the moderator would like to email me, I'd be happy to discuss this
worldclassrager 41
Add a thesaurus to the mix to confuse them
nreed32 20
Educate yourself fool!
Mynamewontfi 40
Really depends on how old you are to tell if it's a YDI or FYL. It's actually quite common, in my personal experience as a transman, that (older) people don't know what the word means. After explaining most do know what it is though, but just didn't know the word for it.
JohnnyCompCoder 8
Its good you did something about it by educating yourself. I'm now wondering, what the hell were your friends talking about?
LexiDaBae 17
Wow.
vikky538 29
I was on the same boat some years back...I thought transexual means a disease that transfered sexually...
KingSplatter 9
In a way, it still could be...
glabberfasted 16
42 - No... That would be an STD
laden_swallow09 35
I think you could stand to read several different books, for that matter.
PresidentNorth 16
Why? OP just didn't know what a word is. It be different if OP was sheltered all their life. But I mean a small convo and it gets brought up? Go be upset at uninformed people on a different website. Here we laugh and joke.
gramie 8
You (as well as other people who have replied) could also google the spelling: transsexual. It actually makes a small difference to the pronunciation.
glabberfasted 16
Maybe you should re-read the FML. It's spelled correctly.