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Do you have a story where you were almost caught out while dressed? Not the big scene when you WERE caught but a time when you almost did and can now look back and laugh about it.
In the mid seventies….
Um I have 2 vivid memories of nearly getting caught… first was also in the seventies, I was 5 or 6, and I had taken to wearing my sisters clothes first thing in the morning before everyone woke up.. One morning I was almost caught by my mum getting up early, and in the split second it took her to open the door, I managed to wedge myself under the wardrobe (it was one of those old ones which was a cabinet on legs.) She didn’t see, or didn’t comment on my sisters underwear…
Second was a little more what you are thinking I’d suspect.. This is my most vivid memory of when I first “knew” I wanted to be a woman, and also the closest time to getting caught…
It was a Sunday morning, around 11am, and I was 14 years old. It was around June/July a beautiful sunny morning, and I had managed to get out of going to the local fields to “Pick Your Own” Strawberries with the rest of the family… I knew I had at least an hour, so I snuck into my sisters bedroom and selected various items of clothing I’d wear…
I got fully dressed and immersed myself in looking pretty, I failed to notice the car coming back up the road… Turns out the fields had been closed due to rain damage from the previous few days… So there I was I heard the car door slam, and I was dressed in one of my sisters dresses and underwear… I managed to get everything off and put back where I found it in under 30 seconds.. To this day I don’t know whether my sister knew or not, but it wasn’t long after that my sister locked the bedroom door when not at home…
Note: Whilst immersing myself in looking pretty, this is still the most vivid recollection of wishing I had been born female. That was when I knew I was different and I wish now I had done something about it….
Take care,
Shells
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