Tuesday, 18 December 2007

Seeing as Yahoo 360 is soon to be no more I am now here and hope to be so with out anymore moving, for now I am migrating stuff here so it is not lost.

I have been crossdressing to some degree for more years than I care to remember but around 3 years ago a voice in my head told me this isn’t a solitary thing I was doing at home alone, there were more like me out in the big wide world.

To this aim I found myself searching the www thingy and at first my efforts were futile in that all I seemed to find were smut sites where guys purporting to be crossdressers had very little on (if anything) with their bits on display, this was not how I perceive crossdressing should be so I continued my search over a period of time.

One day I found a forum where people were discussing crossdressing in a way I could relate to and there was no sign of the smut, I spent ages that day reading stories that were sad, funny and inspiring and I began to feel not so alone. That said I did not register at that site on that day, It was something like 3 months later that I plucked up the courage to register and press that submit button and it was another week or two before I could post some introduction to introduce myself. The forum was somewhere I became attached to and where I learnt quite a bit but more importantly I became forum savvy about how some people act when there.

Time moved on and I began to feel I wanted to find a forum that was more international in regard to its membership, where I was the majority of members were UK based and I wanted to hear about crossdressers across the globe so I began searching again.

Quickly I found another forum and this time I registered straight away unlike that first time, I had at least become more confident with myself and my dressing. Over time I made many friends at this forum and till this day some are still very special friends to me, I would go as far to say these people are part of my extended cyber family and I love them all dearly (those of you reading this know who you are). Eventually I was spending a vast amount of time on this forum and if I wasn’t posting I was talking to friends on either Yahoo Chat or MSN and quite often lost complete track of time, this is why even now I am getting by on 5 hours sleep a night.

One day I was asked to be a Moderator at the forum, a friend who was an Administrator for reasons best known to her thought that I would be OK in doing the job. I really wasn’t sure about this as it was some responsibility from just being a forum member to being someone who had the power to edit someone’s post if it broke the forum rules or delete it all together. My friend persisted and before I knew it I became a Moderator and a whole new part of the forum opened up to me, I spent some time getting acquainted with the workings as I wanted to get everything right. I did though much quicker than I thought get the hang of things and did what I had to do, I also though made sure it didn’t get in the way of my normal enjoyment on the forum.

Many a happy day past but some internal issues arose and one day after a long chat with my friend who’d asked me to be a Moderator we decided that we had come as far as we could with this forum and it was time to move on. We decided in the interim until we could set up another forum to get a Yahoo forum up and running, this is still in use and used by us as a back up. Having left the forum late one night and no chance of returning we made use of the Yahoo forum where we were joined by a number of friends.

Over a period of time there was talk of getting another forum together and with the help of another friend who knew the where for all in setting a functional forum up I and many friends can be found at the Crossdresser Club. I am now an Administrator there and do my best with others to keep it the friendly place it is intended to be without the smut.

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