30 Mar 2010, 12:38 am
@ Hope Grows: I do exactly the same thing!
@ zen_mistress: Anxiety supresses everything, not just your hormones. It doesn't mean you're androgenous, just get on top of it before it gets on top of you 
30 Mar 2010, 6:11 am
HopeGrows wrote:
Cad wrote:
HopeGrows wrote:
@PLA, I personally didn't experience surges in strength that caused me to break things. In terms of puberty, I think my girlfriends and I struggled most with hormones/periods and breast development. It's actually a lot to deal with....getting all kinds of attention you're not used to getting, and dealing with a body that seems to change at will and overnight - several times.
Oh jeez puberty was HELL for me. I didn't understand why guys would all of sudden want to talk to me, and why I couldn't stop thinking about them no matter how hard i tried. I also did the female version of as David M calls it 'pumped with my left hand 6 times a day' not to mention the emotional rollercoaster. I went from being on a level playing field, only being sad/happy if something directly happened that made me so (e.g. hanging out with my friends = happy, my cat died= sad) to crying because...well...i felt sad for no reason at all :S Oh and girls at my school started acting wierd/bitchy all of a sudden...
Did you by any chance have that emotional thing going on as well, HopeGrows?
God, yes - puberty was a complete emotional roller coaster. To this day, when I realize I'm reacting to something emotionally, the first thing I do is look at the calendar.
Sounds tough.
30 Mar 2010, 7:16 pm
31 Mar 2010, 5:24 am
Sound wrote:
So the difference might not be necessarily that you experience the impulse differently, but that you act upon it, or filter it, or redirect it, or interpret it differently.
For me, the urge to have sex isn't in the background either. However, the desire for a girlfriend and a meaningful, loving relationship certainly is.
LiendaBalla wrote:
*scratches* Having a crush, yet not remembering their body and face. Ok so it's possible for some people, I guess.
Of course I can remember what their face looked like! It's just that I never went around thinking, "Look at her legs/bottom/breasts - she is so SEXY!"
That's the difference.
17 Apr 2010, 7:34 am
Sound wrote:
Apple_in_my_Eye wrote:
Interesting article. Thought I add this one:
http://www.ravenkaldera.org/activism/feminist.html
It's an account of how testosterone feels, written by a female-to-male transsexual. I've read a few other accounts like this and it's interesting when certain male behaviors suddenly "makes sense" to someone -- the point being that if you're male it can be surprising to realize that someone could be surprised.
There's something vaguely odd that we're all humans but that the experience can vary in these biological ways so much.
http://www.ravenkaldera.org/activism/feminist.html
It's an account of how testosterone feels, written by a female-to-male transsexual. I've read a few other accounts like this and it's interesting when certain male behaviors suddenly "makes sense" to someone -- the point being that if you're male it can be surprising to realize that someone could be surprised.
There's something vaguely odd that we're all humans but that the experience can vary in these biological ways so much.
This article is incredible.
Ladies, read it. It's an incredible inside into the male life and mindset, especially in regards to sexuality.
Quote:
I think most female researchers wouldn't get that concept because they probably don't have it very often (if at all), and most male researchers wouldn't get it because it's too familiar, the air they breathe and the water they swim in.
^ Great observation in the article, fascinating perspective.
I am female, and I read it.
If I was not so small and unmasculine in the way I look I would have my hormone levels tested again.
The most confusing bit to be was about PMS, as usual. Perhaps I will look for a thread about that when I am done here.
One thing I must comment on:
"3. Having a cycle - up, down, up, down. I like being steady-state, or as much as my hormone delivery system will let me. No more lunar cycles; I Sing The Body Solar-Electric. "
The steadiness this person may experience is because they receive hormones via an "unnatural" way. His mood (or anyone's mood who receives hormones this way) will be steady as long as the hormones are given in a steady manner and in accordance with life style and stress. All people with natural hormones have natural cycles. Males' cycles may be less severe; however, they are still there. It must also be considered that the male cycle, regardless of actual serverity, is less noticable than the female's because there is nothing like the period in the male. Once a female knows it has been a month or when she starts her menstruation, she is likely to start feeling poorly just because she is "supposed" to. This can not happen in males.
17 Apr 2010, 10:16 am
17 Apr 2010, 11:21 pm
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18 Apr 2010, 1:17 pm
So maybe if i wait a while before i next get fruity will that make more hormones in my body build up? 
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19 Apr 2010, 5:35 am
Mouldy wrote:
So maybe if i wait a while before i next get fruity will that make more hormones in my body build up?
Fruity? Depends on whether or not that is something which noticeably reduces the levels of the hormones in question.
That said, hormones are generally not something that is stored in larger quantities when not in use. More commonly, the production decreases.
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