Integrating Revelations

[khrysso]

Tuesday evening I posted to a limited audience a journal in which I talked about my lifelong secret and indeed very "private" horror concerning my genitalia and physical characteristics thereof that I only just now, at age 49, put together enough information about to understand that the way my body developed was, it is likely, directly the result

Comments

[oolongindc]

Thanks for sharing my friend. I am the unfortunate bystander of a similar nature. They removed so much of my foreskin that things stretch too tight and I have almost no feeling in my penis at all.

I wish there was something I could do to help. I hope there is some resolve for you somewhere.

Mondo Hugs to you.

[khrysso]

Thank you, and thank you for sharing your story.

I am sure I will be able to come to terms with this some day; I am just allowing myself to have my feelings right now.

Mondo hugs back.

[epinoid]

HUGS

I am trying to figure out a response that doesn't sound stupid or at all dismissive. You are taking an opportunity to grow through one of your significant hurdles. None of us can change the past as much as we might want to, but we can reconcile with the past. If you could comfort and encourage the younger Khrysso during the periods of great shame and hurt what would you do? What does it feel like to the younger Khrysso?

Reconciling with the Past

[khrysso]

Yes, I think this is the only reasonable course of action: reconciliation.