Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD

#ADHD Coach | Host @translatingadhd pod | he / him 🏳️‍⚧️ |

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

It is #TransAwarenessWeek and I am coming out! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

My name is Asher. I am a transgender man. My pronouns are he/him.

Watch my coming out video:

https://t.co/eJcWTVdUy5

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

The Translating ADHD podcast is back with Season 3 co-host @dustychipura!

[Translating ADHD Podcast @translatingadhd]

We're back with Season 3 co-host @dustychipura!

Check out the first 3 episodes below 👇

Navigating Self-Acceptance: Dusty Chipura’s ADHD Journey

https://t.co/LzFXrcqgvo

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

Bar PM is an incredible, inclusive LGBTQ bar in STL. I cannot believe that one of the owners remains under arrest while these cops have still failed to give a plausible explanation as to how they smashed their car through the front of the building in the first place. #ACAB

[Sarah Fenske @sarahfenske]

Update: Now the owner of that bar a police cruiser crashed into faces a felony assault charge https://t.co/kI0gP1HX6M

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@allisone29 Thanks for this - a whole ass list to consider. Definitely helped me figure out some things about what I'm liking and not liking!

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

A big hangup for me in getting my name changed legally is coming up with a middle name.

I'd go without one entirely, but not having one can create bureaucracy issues... and that doesn't play well with #ADHD.

So... suggest a middle name, please!

Asher [???] Collins

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@2020tho Yeah I'm almost leaning towards an initial over a name because I think I agree with you... two syllables is too same-y with first/last and any more sounds like too many syllables with the other names!

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@adventurelolo No, and family relations on that side are.. non-existent. Nice idea though... definitely spawned some new thoughts!

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@meowsie I'd do this in a heartbeat if I didn't already know it would cause more problems than it would solve, hahaha.

BUT... some trans folks opt for an initial instead of a name... hmm 🙃

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@James_740 I have no choice in who I interact with at the DMV, when going through TSA, or at any number of other institutions.

How about instead of arguing with me... you listen to me and consider that our experiences in this realm are *wildly* different.

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@James_740 You might not have people harass *you* over not having a middle name. But people looking for a reason to harass trans people can and do make a *thing* about this, simply because they can.

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@HackingYourADHD Hahaha... I'm the least dangerous person on planet earth... and if all else fails I might say fuck it and do it for the rich irony.

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@coachcamg @adhdessentials @StephenTonti @translatingadhd Second this! Honored to be asked and had *so much fun* doing it!

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@ruthlessreads A few of my closest guy friends have done this too I feel the same way. It's almost reassuring that it came so naturally to them, like they always saw me in a way.

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@nathanc Oh definitely. Gave me a good chuckle and hey, progress is progress!

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

People trying to read my gender gets funnier by the day. See also the flight attendant who was thanking people walking off the plane as ma'am or man looked at me...

"Thank you... ma.. si... uh thanks." 🙃

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@HealthyADHD Does the same four pairs of funky old tie-die pants I've been wearing to shows for a decade count as a separate jamband wardrobe?

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

My physiological responses to emotion have changed since starting HRT.

I don't feel emotion in my body as strongly as I used to.

I can't cry unless I am at peak frustration, and that type of cry does not feel like a release.

Here's to learning emotional intelligence... again.

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@Tvbona Awh! What a lovely message to start my week with, thank you!

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

The fact that the early days of HRT and all of the emotional upheaval that comes with it is intersecting with absolute peak transphobia is... not great.

Spent my therapy session yesterday wondering if I was going to spend the rest of my days feeling like everything is shit.

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@inkblurt I have the same bowls that the garlic butter is in. They are such a great size, I adore them!

[Asher Collins 🏳️‍⚧️ | 🎙️: Translating ADHD @curiouslyasher]

@annaxro Awh, thank you! Our listeners have been overwhelmingly supportive and I'm so grateful for that. Means a lot to feel seen. 💜