After a long absence and beginning life in my 40s, let’s try this again!
My name is Charleigh—though I often spell it as “Charlie”.
Go ahead, google my name and stalk me. I don’t care; I know the reality I face as I begin to seriously blog again.
I am loudly and proudly a lesbian, a gay woman, a queer woman, though I’m single and don’t actively go out on dates.
I do my best to live life as anyone else in their 40s: work hard at my job, pay my bills, enjoy the company of and be there for family and friends.
I read and watch about absolutely niche and absurd topics, whatever fancies me at the time. Others are awed by my large “knowledge”, and I have earned the nickname “the walking encyclopedia”. I clarify when replying with, “More like a walking almanac?” Because it’s all still surface-level understanding. 😉
I occasionally drink at local gay spots and events, tho I’m usually dry due to the cocktail of medications I need to maintain my mental and physical health.
I grew up extremely tomboyish, and long identified as a stone lesbian. I’ve had some in the family try to (hyper?-)feminize me, which didn’t work. I have suffered and endured two years of “reparative” therapy at a church to make me “straight” and try to feminize me, with which I endure symptoms of cPTSD still to this day—which has at times included suicidal tendencies. But in the past year I have found heaven-sent angels of friends who have helped me learn how to embrace my femininity while still maintaining my tomboy tendencies.
I have also been diagnosed in the past year with ADHD, level 1 autism (formerly known as Asperger syndrome), OCD. I have enduring symptoms of generalized anxiety, gender dysphoria, the previously-mentioned cPTSD.
If you been to my blog before—well, I’m starting over, just like I’m starting over again in my 40s.
Charleigh Copley 