i was listening to songs and watching shows, and there seems to be an eternal nostalgia or obsession with your teenage years, but this is something i only see cis people having, probably because most trans people didn't have a nice experience on their teen years
so, i decided to make a poll!
please boost my silly poll
also feel free to explain yourself, if you desire

are you...

cis, and i miss my teen years
3.5%
trans, and i miss my teen years
16.8%
cis, and i don't miss my teen years
23.8%
trans and i don't miss my teen years
55.9%
Poll ended at .
@agatha those were the worst years of my life, if I had my knowledge now back then, I would do everything differently.
@RedCyberPandaz that is kinda true for everyone tbh
the "if i had the mind i have today..." part at least
@agatha mostly I just mean knowing that trans was a thing and how it works. Idgaf about anything else lol
@RedCyberPandaz @agatha except I don’t think there’s much I could’ve done differently. Sometimes I wonder if knowing I was trans much earlier would’ve just caused me to experience even more pain. And there’s not much you can do differently about bullying, and trauma from it, which was a big part of why those years were so awful. I do wish the friends I made in the last few years of school could meet the me that I am now though, instead of this protective shell I hid behind back then, or fully meet the real me that was inside that shell back then, which would’ve only been possible if I understood myself a bit better a bit earlier.