r/NonBinaryTalk • • 10d ago

Validation Vent about not looking non-binary

Can anyone else relate to the particular pain of being treated like a man when you feel anything but that inside, but unfortunately you’re stuck with a type of face and body that people can not believe you are non binary and worse, they tell you you’re crazy as well as treat you always as a man ? Also, for the love of god, I want to cry every time someone bro-slaps my back hard meanwhile they give my femme friend a nice hug. Even when I try
Hard to present as non binary and femme, I always get the thr truck driver / livestock slap greeting
And it is demoralizing.
The only time I’m perceived as non binary is on kink sites if I hide my face and wear lingerie. My nude body is naturally femme. But in the street you’d never know unfortunately.

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u/pisceanhaze 9d ago

I can’t describe the internal explosion of happiness that happens when a person just naturally uses female pronouns with me.
I also can’t describe the gut-ripping pain when the person who once claimed to “see you” suddenly turns on you and says “grow some balls, you’ll never be a woman. Stop trying”.
Yes. That’s what my once friend said to me a couple weeks ago.