Most of you probably know me as the twig Dave English (the nerd with the unpainted guns who kept throwing them accidentally whilst practicing spinning them or dropping them. I work better with swords tbh) or the cut neck Dave Strider.
Now, a lot of the time outside of the cosplay community i identify as a girl because I cannot really hide my chest that often without suffering damage to my ribs (binders shouldnt be worn more than 8 hours and I have a 12 hour to 14 hour day usually). And since I don't bind often, I get compliments and told I'm a cute girl. Now that's nice since people don't know me and I cannot expect them to be able to know what I am.
For clarification, I recently discovered I am genderfluid. I can be either gender, sometimes nonbinary but that is still new ground that I am not fully read-up on so I will not say that I am nonbinary.
Well, for the very first time while I was at PMX, people asked me for my pronouns. More specifically, my fellow Homestucks asked me.
I have never felt so happy in my entire life. I told people who asked that I identify as both a girl and a guy, depending on if I'm in cosplay or binding or not. And people started using he/him pronouns when addressing me because I asked.
If you don't understand, (if you do, then ilu) I have always hated just being called a girl since I was 10. Since I was 10. For years I have been wishing I could confuse someone with my gender and maybe, hopefully, get them to use male pronouns.
And now some people voluntarily asked me what pronouns I use and used the ones I politely and nervously asked them to use. This may be an insignificant conversation to those who are confident in their gender, and I certainly do not wish to force my pronouns down some stranger's throat for my own comfort, but this
That maybe someday I can be able to use him/he pronouns more than her/she pronouns. That I can confuse people not for the sake of making them uncomfortable (as I always clarify and thank them), but for the sake of maybe one day being confident enough to take the next big leap.