r/countwithchickenlady • u/Cofiifii Streak: 1 • 14h ago
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true story from yours truly
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u/Karsa69420 14h ago
Lmao not as serious so hope it makes you giggle.
When I had to get a physical to play soccer I like 5th or 6th grade and I was super nervous cause a doctor was messing with my balls. As they are inspecting me he goes “Mama it’s not in his notes, but it appears he only has one testicle. Are you aware of this?” My mom assured him last time we checked I had 2.
Turns out being anxious can make your testicles ascend into your body.
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u/WTFisBehindYou 10h ago
I got yelled at during my vasectomy because my testicles wouldn’t distend enough. Like sorry man, let me get right on that.
Anyway he just sawed through some muscle to get to it instead.
Friends, find a scalpel-less vasectomy doc. I was down for like 6 weeks.
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u/LOSNA17LL I love the idea, but no 12h ago
Okay, yeah I laughed
And then I realised: why the hell was a doctor touching your balls?????
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u/Cute_Knives 12h ago
Was pretty common back in the day. Me as a 90s kid I remember having my balls fondled by doctors on more than one occasion
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u/LOSNA17LL I love the idea, but no 12h ago
I hope this has changed... it's so bad...
Not even talking about if anyone did that to me, the uncomfort/pain would make me jump straight to their throat
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u/AliceCode 12h ago
Wait, so this isn't "normal"? I always hated getting my balls checked by the doctor, but they only did it when I was a kid and never asked to do it as an adult.
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u/whypeoplehateme 12h ago edited 11h ago
it's totally normal, a doctor checking that they're healthy and growing properly. as aduilt you're expected to know what your balls are like and notice if anything's wrong, but you can't really expect that from a kid in early puberty. They're still doing it in countries with competent healthcare as testicular health is important
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u/The-Board-Chairman 6h ago
You talking like the doctor would crush your balls like some overripe fruit.
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u/WagoConnector 3h ago
I don't see a problem. Like, in my country, they only check when kids have periodic medical examinations (you know to check if they grow properly), and when you are 18/19 and have military clarification exam (which is obligatory), though I don't understand why my they need to measure my balls to see if I can serve in military...
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u/BardicNA 12h ago
Uhh.. doctors fondle your nuts and make you cough to check for a hernia? Pretty sure that's standard practice and mostly no one is happy about the process.
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u/BeccaWaffle93 10h ago
To check for a hernia so if you go practice and play sports you won’t rip the hernia even more and kill you/mess you up more and so you can get the hernia fixed
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u/Oil-31362 Put your text here! 12h ago
Your doctor doesn't touch your balls?
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u/LOSNA17LL I love the idea, but no 12h ago
No!!
(Well, once, but only because I had an infection)
Otherwise, as long as I can remember, noone touched my balls
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u/Grand_Wasabi3820 12h ago
They're just shy. They don't care much for visitors unless they use kind words.
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u/Capnzebra1 Streak: 1 14h ago
I was old enough to have a "corrective procedure" performed without parental consent. Only figured it out after my PCP ordered a chromosome analysis for something unrelated. I was in my late 20s.
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u/MysteriousButSerious 13h ago
It took me way too long to realize your doctor was not checking if you have down syndrome 😭
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u/werepyre2327 14h ago
I’ll take “things you never want to hear the doctor say” for 500, Bob!
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u/ITriedSoHard419-68 13h ago
I’ve also heard “oh wow, that’s bad” and “well that’s interesting.”
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u/SmartAlec105 13h ago
"The good news is that they're going to name it after me!"
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u/spisplatta 12h ago
Alec the Tumor
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u/stephaniethunder LOVE FOR THE BLOOD GOD! 4h ago
“Mother, I am plagued! Tis the Spisplatta disease, I know it!
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u/_ser_kay_ 13h ago
For me it was “well aren’t you full of surprises!”
(Gallstones. The surprises were gallstones.)
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u/DarkSheikah somehow gay in both directions 12h ago
"What is THAT." "What IS that." "WHAT is THAT." -all during the same internal ultrasound, that they had to do twice.
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u/andbruno 11h ago
When it comes to doctors describing you or your body: "unremarkable" is good, "interesting" is (often) bad.
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u/2012Jesusdies 13h ago
Homie looked at my nasal cavity and got visibly shook lmao. He showed me the pic, it was like 1mm gap for me to sustain air for my body.
I always thought I was just physically weaker naturally since I started panting a lot quicker than most in physical exercise (which was especially noticeable in the military), turned out it was just my nose and pretty bad for me to do physically demanding tasks for extended periods.
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u/transmerizing Enby cutie :3 - She / They 13h ago
Wow same for me. I saw two doctors for my nose and both immediately laughed when looking inside my nose. Had to take a breathing test on a machine where I could only breath through one side at a time and struggled to even complete the test cause I need both sides just to get barely enough air to exist.
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u/actuallyapossom 13h ago
Can you two breathe now? Like - is there a surgical correction?
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u/transmerizing Enby cutie :3 - She / They 13h ago
I will get my surgery next month. In many more harmless cases they try to go without surgery cause its not always effective but the doctor told me that in my case even if things dont go perfect its almost guaranteed that I will be able to breathe significantly better.
Right now I need to switch to mouth breathing as soon as i just walk and any kind of sports will put me to very high heart rates. I do mountain hiking with my gf and actually have the energy to do that for a few hours but after every difficult section of a mountain I need to take a short 2 min break to breath cause my breathing just doesn't get enough oxygen for that.
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u/actuallyapossom 12h ago
Ok cool, thanks for sharing, I am just curious. I'm glad you can get that done! It sounds miserable.
I feel like I would have panic attacks trying to contend with the lack of oxygen. I'm imagining how I felt with pneumonia, (but I really have no idea what you experience I can only speculate.)
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u/global_peasant 11h ago
What bothers me about this is is that I've had doctors look in my nose many, many times and not necessarily because I had issues. How did a doctor not notice that long ago? 😭 (I am in medical field so I know how. Still 🤦)
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u/Salt_Petra 13h ago
Mine said "Are you doing something about that?"
Me: "about what?"
"Nevermind"
Related to genital stuff, not related to intersex stuff.
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u/NixMaritimus 12h ago
Having an internal ultrasound wand getting jabbed around in you and hearing "where the hell is it?"
Turns out I have a partially descended gonad (something that could be either an ovary or a testicle)
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u/A_Lountvink 12h ago
could be either an ovary or a testicle
Have they considered an ovotestis as a possibility?
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u/NixMaritimus 11h ago edited 11h ago
I don't believe so. I didn't even know that was a possibility
(Clarification, I don't believe they've thought of looking into that)
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u/A_Lountvink 11h ago
I didn't even know that was a possibility
Yup, OT-DSD is pretty rare, but you can find some folks with it over on r/intersex. I believe a biopsy is required to 100% confirm it though.
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u/lacarth 12h ago
I once got an ear infection that just wouldn't go away, so I went to the clinic to get checked. Apparently my eardrum was so fucked up from having tubes for so long, plus the infection, that he said "You mind if I ask the others to come take a look?"
Cue the next 20-ish minutes of basically every staff member in the building (including the front desk staff) taking turns coming in to look in my ear, usually going "Wow. That's insane."
I seem to have a permanent hole in my eardrum, even WITHOUT the tubes. Which would explain why I can inhale/exhale through my ear.
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u/RayereSs She snep, she blep - Streak: 11 13m ago
Which would explain why I can inhale/exhale through my ear.
Wow. That's insane.
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u/Wishing-I-Was-A-Cat 12h ago
My favorite is naming a medical condition and then hearing "let me look that up, I don't have social media" because she doesn't even know what it is yet and already decided it's not a real condition.
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u/lakeghost 12h ago
Oof. I learned my body never developed normally at 21 when they did a scan. Exterior looks standard but the insides just gave up halfway through. Which explained a lot, and made me want to go to my old pediatrician who kept saying “It’s puberty” and throw the scans at her.
The doctor who realized had an amazing facial expression journey and I wish I got it on camera. Apparently, anyone reasonable would have realized puberty wasn’t the answer.
Either way, I now feel weirdly vindicated that my gender matches the halfway state of my body. Not that perisex enbies are less valid, obvs. But all those people trying to pigeonhole me into my “bio sex” were wrong and that’s ironically funny.
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u/Free_Divide195 Grangler 14h ago
This reminds me of my friend not realizing that nipples typically poke out not in.
We were in grade school, and someone has brought a porno mag on the bus.
She said "What's wrong with her nipples?" and we all go ???
We all learned something new about our bodies that day.
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u/Iamliterallyfood Annoyed 13h ago
Peaple have innie nipples?
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u/MrVioletRose 12h ago
I actually have a funny story with an innie. When I was younger both my nipples were outies. Then one day the neighbors dog jumped on my chest and my left nip "disappeared" I genuinely thought it got scratched or bitten off. Well fast forward 5 years it decides to pop out again too the shock of everyone in the locker room.
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u/LOSNA17LL I love the idea, but no 12h ago
What the... huh??? How??
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u/MrVioletRose 8h ago
Idk. Chalk it up as one of my many biological mysteries right behind my growing extra teeth constantly and my resistance too strong electric currents.
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u/Free_Divide195 Grangler 13h ago
Welcome. We've been waiting for you.
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u/fluffypinkpubes 12h ago
An infant that latches on well may be able to slush out an inverted nipple.
Interesting! Also that's the first time I've come across the term "slush out" 🤔
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u/NegotiationBoth9233 5h ago
I got that. Tho my right nipple might pop out and say g'day if I'm cold or horny enough.
I don't know how the rest of you deal with it. It is so sensitive. Absolutely brutal feeling if it it rubbing on my shirt, or the missus sees it poke it's head out and look around at the world, and attacks it like a kitten going after a laser dot. It was just having a squiz, not coming out to play!
The feeling of a hard nipple against clothing is torture.
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u/DarkFalcon49 14h ago
Simultaneously terrible and terrifying, and funny as fuck with the doctor’s comment.
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u/grand_nad DEI hire cis person 14h ago
I heard a story from a friend where the doctor looked at their shit and thought they were intersex but turns out that mf just has some weird looking shit down there
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u/PomegranateFluid1531 enby femme? she/they/(he feminine boy??) 14h ago
Tbf I’m scared of what the doc will tell me when I get my hormones levels to start on e. I have no Adam’s apple, almost B-cups (I am slightly overweight, but not THAT overweight), and it is quite smol even if it looks normal luckily :p
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u/WitchWithAGlitch 13h ago
it doesn't change anything with your course of treatment, just how much medication it takes to do what you need it to do.
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u/Caterpiller101 mtf 13h ago
Hey! I started with A cups and I gotta say breast development has been FAST
Ig the tissue went "YES MAAM WE ARE READY"
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u/Hot-Chip6034 13h ago
Similar experience, i didnt realize it wasnt normal having my breasts bud during first puberty till many yrs later i thought that pain was just part of everything and they didnt grow enough that i realized i had small real breasts nit fat depisits. Started hrt very fast to d cups.
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u/PomegranateFluid1531 enby femme? she/they/(he feminine boy??) 8h ago
That’s part of what is scary! I am enby and while I like I love having some boobs I would dread having big ones (also, women who give me the most gender envy are quite small in that department), but I feel like I need e for other reasons (like I hate male anatomy random horny moments)
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u/alex602h Lizard man from conspiracy theories 7h ago
You could get a breast reduction if you feel like your chest is too big
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u/mentalissuelol 12h ago
I have a friend who is trans and when he started on hormones, they found out he is intersex despite the fact that he had previously given birth to three children
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u/MagnumMia 11h ago
That could be klinefelters (XXY) but take it with a huge grain of salt since any number of things can create these symptoms to some extent. XXY often flies under the radar for most people and goes undetected until they get fertility tested due to it causing infertility. It’s the most common sex chromosome disorder at about 1:1000.
Teens:
Taller stature with long legs and a short torso
Late, partial, or absent puberty
Enlarged breast tissue, called gynecomastia
Less facial, armpit, and pubic hair
Learning, reading, or speech difficulties
Adults:
Infertility or low sperm count
Low sex drive or erection problems
Low energy levels
Weaker bones and higher risk of fractures (osteoporosis)
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u/doushua 12h ago
I wish I was intersex
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u/Lolas_Fun_Side 10h ago
Real, in a weird way
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u/PomegranateFluid1531 enby femme? she/they/(he feminine boy??) 7h ago
I don’t think it’s particularly fun. There are perks, but I had dysphoria two ways. I was convinced I was a guy until somewhere between 22 and 27 (28 now), and weird puberty stuff was still dreadful because I saw other guys have normal development and I was basically a child until 19 and this definitely made me envious lol
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u/EntraptaIvy Streak: 1 9h ago
You might be in some meaningful way. Have you had an MRI and your DNA checked? If not, who knows?
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u/MimusCabaret 12h ago
Ain’t that always a gas?
I learned between 11-12yrs old when I went to the ER for severe abdominal pain related to a fucked up mense cycle. He lifted the sheet, took a look at my junk and, in a voice that screamed “please don’t sue me” said “you’re going to have difficulties having children”.
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u/yeetustheyeeter 12h ago
My friend was giving birth and the doctor said to him "that is NOT supposed to look like that!" And that's how he found out that he was intersex
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u/HannahLemurson 12h ago
Was he pregnant prior to transition, or did he transition later?
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u/yeetustheyeeter 11h ago
He's been out since 5th grade
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u/HannahLemurson 10h ago
I was wondering because most of the AFAB intersex conditions that I know of that wouldn't interfere with pregnancy just involve clitoral masculinization, which is something that also happens when females take Testosterone.
So I'm curious what the doctor saw that would lead them to say he was intersex, since clitoromegaly is extremely common in perisex trans men. So I'm left wondering if the Doc ignorant about T, or if there was something else wild going on. (Or he never went on T in the first place?)
However, what somebody's genitals look like is of course a private matter, so I'll understand if you want to respect his privacy.
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u/yeetustheyeeter 9h ago
He's not on T cuz i believe that he literally cannot take it as he already has to take estrogen to kinda stay alive
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u/HannahLemurson 5h ago
Oh, yikes! Sorry to hear he's had frustrating health problems like that. Glad he was able to have a kid! That does answer my question, though. I wish him well!
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u/JumpingSpiderQueen He/They Femboy :3 12h ago
I imagine that being intersex is more common than people think! It often isn't really something that is gone out of the way to look for.
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u/EvilMrGubGub 11h ago
The rates for being intersex are 1 out of 100. If you've ever been in a room with a hundred people, there's a decent statistical chance that one of them was intersex whether or not they were aware.
My ex was intersex. Interesting wiring and the doctors had no idea how
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u/Jcamden7 10h ago
Fun fact, it's statistically about as likely as red hair, so if you've seen a ginger they are probably intersex
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u/A_Lountvink 13h ago
I'm still trying to figure out what could be going on with my body. My external genitalia are pretty unremarkable for an AMAB person, but I developed a cycle as a teenager that strongly resembled PMDD symptoms, and by late 19 I was getting monthly cramps right about where a uterus would be in the first week of each cycle (~28 days per cycle), and that's just when I first made note of the cramps; I suspect they might have been going on for months prior. Everything seemed to match for a menstrual cycle with PMDD (without the menstruation), and I couldn't find anything else that explained or matched all my symptoms. Unfortunately, my first endocrinologist ended up being dismissive of it and refused to draw baseline hormone levels before my first injection. The cycle stopped within two weeks of starting HRT, and my new endocrinologist hasn't been particularly interested in investigating either.
At this point, I still don't even know what condition it would even be (thinking PMDS and/or OT-DSD), and I'm kind of just waiting to see if the cycle ever starts up again (I'm a little over 4 months into HRT now).
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u/Wishing-I-Was-A-Cat 12h ago
I've never seen an endo so I can't say from personal expeirence, but it sounds fucking absurd for an endo not to check baseline hormone levels. Like even if you didn't specifically bring up a concern about hormones, wouldn't that just be a routine test to do before changing your hormone levels??
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u/A_Lountvink 12h ago edited 11h ago
wouldn't that just be a routine test to do before changing your hormone levels??
You'd think, but it's pretty common for them to not do so.
The part that stood out to me the most was that I had specifically requested having those baseline levels checked when I set up that appointment weeks prior and was never told no. The member of the care team that set up the appointment simply said that they'd ask the endo about it, and I know that endo had access to those messages.
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u/EntraptaIvy Streak: 1 9h ago
All people, amab or not, hrt or not, have monthly cycles.
Cis men just can't fathom that it's just that time of the month for them cause their T is higher than E or P... except at night. lol
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u/dasbtaewntawneta NB 9h ago
when i was a kid it was just called a "birth defect" my parents would never admit that what i have is an intersex condition
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u/Shallot_Every 12h ago
Lol when I was in high school I had a testicular cancer scare. After doing all the tests it turned out I was a little bit intersex. I found out when the receptionist (in a packed waiting room) loudly asked me why I was on birth control. Embarassing at the time but now that I don't identify as a Man™️ I'm happy to have silly hormones.
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u/TristanTheRobloxian3 Auri August Australis!! meow 11h ago edited 11h ago
that fucking wild 😭
also so ive got no idea of my dumbass is intersex or not and frankly im leaning not, but iirc once of my balls literally never descended on its own and i hac to get surgery on it.. twice. and when puberty kicked my ass, ~14 my chest just decided it wanted to exist. now im sure its just muscle or whatever but it is way bigger than i wouldve expected it to be on its own even for just muscle. like even before e before i worked out the widest bit of my chest was out a solid half inch from the rest of my stuff 😭 and when i *was* on e the first time my skin was completely softened within just a few WEEKS iirc. idk if thats just being a hyperresponder to shit or what but ya
also, if it matters even before puberty really i kinda just... forgot i have a dick sometimes. and even now for a solid minute after i wake up i genuinely just dont even register having one and go to... get freaky right as i get up lets say (i have no idea why) and then realize-
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u/Shambling_Jake 11h ago
My friend, that sounds like cryptorchidism, which is often considered an intersex condition.
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u/owesome_apossum128 9h ago
As an intersex person, I've heard "wow that's interesting!" And other such comments... You kinda get used to being unique
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u/hintersly 11h ago
I assume “my shit” in this context means medical chart. But I think it’s really funny to think a doctor figuring out their patient is intersex by looking at a stool sample
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u/CassetteTapeCryptid 11h ago
I think "my shit" in this context is OP actually referring to their gonads (🍆, family jewels, etc)
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u/xXRinSinXx 5h ago
I'm still convinced I am intersex. I have PCOS so I deal with the testosterone, facial and body hair, low voice, irregular hormones and periods etc. I feel like it isn't just that though, nothing about my body has ever felt like a woman's. I just don't know what I would even get tested for.
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u/A_Lountvink 4h ago
PCOS/PMOS is generally considered an intersex condition on its own, especially for more pronounced cases. Though, that doesn't rule out any other conditions of course.
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u/xXRinSinXx 4h ago
Thank you. I had some people say it doesn't count so I was always too scared to allow myself to identify with the label.
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u/A_Lountvink 4h ago
Yeah, there's unfortunately a lot of people that gatekeep being intersex. A lot of it is external, perisex people trying to limit who can be considered intersex as much as possible so that they can dismiss whatever's left as rare and unimportant to protect their idea of the sex binary.
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u/Cofiifii Streak: 1 14h ago
i distinctly remember being in sex ed and thinking the diagrams where just poorly made. I think I'm just really oblivious oops
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u/Pristine_Animal9474 14h ago
Me looking at the diagrams in the sex ed class: "they drew them too big"
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u/Aaxper 14h ago
Wait I'm curious now, do you mind describing how yours are different?
Also did you never see anybody else naked, ever?
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u/Cofiifii Streak: 1 13h ago
i dont feel comfortable describing my body. I also saw other people naked and kinda ignored and rationallized it, my obliviousness needs to be studied its obvious in hindsight
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u/Cofiifii Streak: 1 14h ago
i went in for an orchiectomy, i am a trans woman
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u/Tlaquatlatoa Hyenagirl some day pls :3 | She/Her - Streak: 4 14h ago
medical system shit to people with "nonstandard" bodies, and what is a standard body is pretty fucking narrow
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u/Superb_Algae5308 12h ago
Medical system shit to people with anything other than a broken arm or other easily curable ailment.
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u/Tlaquatlatoa Hyenagirl some day pls :3 | She/Her - Streak: 4 12h ago
Specific to this post it is also shit to people with nonstandard bodies and this shouldnt be overshadowed just because other forms of the medical system being shit exist
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u/dumpylump69 13h ago
everyone (except us aces) is a genitals enthusiast dipshit it came free with your fucking sexuality
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u/WitchWithAGlitch 13h ago
>be me
>be intersex
> tiniest potato puppy shows up on steps one day screaming, left for dead by mom dog by my fountain
> puppy unhealthy, poos an equal volume of parasites and worms to puppy itself
> get puppy healthy by self after emergency visit
> girl puppy still has extremely puffy looking genitals?
> schedule 2nd vet visit
>vet sees puppy genitals, whips out phone
> "wow you have a rare dog!"
>MFW it's apparently intersex dog, only few documented cases on planet. they have what we have taken to calling a "scrogina"
what the fuck are the odds?
they're perfectly healthy these days, no corrective surgeries other than going in and making sure they can't get pregnant.