I’ve had this interesting journey of going through visible changes that changed people’s perception of my ethnicity, and it’s happened more than once. I wonder if anyone else had had something similar.
I’m of mixed Asian and African ancestry, and up until I was 5 years old or so, I looked distinctively Asian. People would call me a Chinese kid. As I got older my facial features changed, and my skin color became darker. I then became known as the local black kid among a sea of . When I transitioned in my 20s and went on estrogen there were major visual changes again. My skin color also became lighter due to the skin thinning on estrogen. This made me visibly go from looking like a black dude to a Latina woman. Nowadays I often get people asking me if I’m from Brazil or Argentina or something.
This seems to be a very common feature of mixed race kids. A lot of my friends are mixed Asian/white kids. If they look Asian when they were teenagers, then by the time they reach mid-20s/early-30s they would look white. And the reverse is true as well. I don’t understand the biology behind it but it’s something I have observed a lot.
I’ve had this interesting journey of going through visible changes that changed people’s perception of my ethnicity, and it’s happened more than once. I wonder if anyone else had had something similar.
I’m of mixed Asian and African ancestry, and up until I was 5 years old or so, I looked distinctively Asian. People would call me a Chinese kid. As I got older my facial features changed, and my skin color became darker. I then became known as the local black kid among a sea of
. When I transitioned in my 20s and went on estrogen there were major visual changes again. My skin color also became lighter due to the skin thinning on estrogen. This made me visibly go from looking like a black dude to a Latina woman. Nowadays I often get people asking me if I’m from Brazil or Argentina or something.
Looks like your gender wasn’t the only one transitioning…
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I think by the end of this, someone will ask if you’re Filipina…
So you’re saying this isn’t even my final form?
Oh fuck, I better brace myself.
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This seems to be a very common feature of mixed race kids. A lot of my friends are mixed Asian/white kids. If they look Asian when they were teenagers, then by the time they reach mid-20s/early-30s they would look white. And the reverse is true as well. I don’t understand the biology behind it but it’s something I have observed a lot.
Oli London is somewhere seething with jealousy
I hope he keeps seething for the rest of his life.