Hi :# I'm new. Here and well, with the whole thing

Hi! My name is Roxanne. I'm located in Western Canada. Mid-life. Yes there was a crisis. In fact there were crises. For one, I got divorced in December and still getting used to the solitude after living in a house with kids for all those years. I didn't buy any fancy cars though. I refuse to drive. I'm a clutz and will at best cause material damage and at worst seriously injure or kill someone. So I'm doing the rest of society a huge favour by paying people to drive me around. 

I started exploring my gender fluidity through feminizing about a year and a half ago. I am slowly becoming more public about it, though I still have both feet comfortably in the closet. Looking for a sense of community so I can build my confidence, strengthen my identity, find some role models to look up to, and some like-minded girls to shoot the shit with. It gets lonely at times just putting on makeup and dressing up for myself. I hope to be able to share that experience with some friends, in time. 

A bit about me - I have a few hobbies: electronic music/DJing is the longest running one (started back in 2001 during the vinyl era, at the risk of sounding like that bitch). I also play video games daily - mostly military MMOs and basebuilders removed link Aside from that, I once rode bicycles competitively, and though those days are 50 pounds behind me, I still ride pretty often. I am passionate about computers, hardware, PC building, overclocking... All the nerdy shit.

I also go to school part time to become a translator (my native tongue is French, I can  also get around in Spanish, and I'm working on Russian).

I work as an office administrator, which is very boring but fills some of my need to see other human beings, and involves editing and proofreading texts, which soothes my mind and brings me great satisfaction. 

I've been getting better at doing my makeup, and I found this site while I was looking for advice on concealing my very strong, needs-2-shaves-a-day stubble. I found what I needed 🙂 Tattoo concealer baby! What an odd superpower I was assigned; my hair grows about four times faster than average. I've had 2 inch months. Honestly, it's the French genes - we're either bald at 25 or chewbacas for life. I guess I lucked out. Though I don't feel that way when I have to shave my body every second day or feel like a cactus pear. 

I feel like this novel has already given that away, but I'm neurodivergent. I am certifiably diagnosed with ADHD and I probably also have the old tism. I can concentrate on a task so hard that people have to say my name 5 times to get my attention. Sometimes if I think about a problem really hard, the lights flicker. What's your superpower?

All right, you've almost made it to the end! Congratulations! The writer in me tends to fill up pages with pointless drivel real quick, and I am trying to work on concision, so I will stop myself there since I have already failed miserably. 

I look forward to meeting you all. 

P.s.: don't worry, I'm not usually this long-winded.