hey i mean most men deal with this too. you know the joke that a guy will get one compliment and then hold onto it for the rest of his life? yeah. maybe it can be affirming that it’s a cis dude problem lmao

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And I’m ngl sometimes it gets to me. I don’t feel like I see ppl talk abt this kind of thing much and I know I’m not the only one experiencing this. Any tips? I usually just think of how much I hated all that attention and how it made my depression worse and made me feel like I needed to be perfect all the time but idk. Sometimes ig I just miss knowing that I’m wanted???

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i can relate but in the opposite way. was a gay lil twink constantly hit on by men and women prior to transitioning even tho i’m socially awkward and reserved. i still do pretty good with attention, but the middle part of transitioning made me super conflicted since i wasn’t conventionally attractive, at least not the way i wanted to be. i think it’s totally normal to miss the attention even if at the time it made you dysphoric. being called handsome would ruin my day haha

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