Had an interesting day, yesterday I watched a pretty cool YT of Danny Elfman, he's old and weird and awesome and so talented. But watching him gave me the confidence to be older and weird too. I'm just miserable if I wear beige and be "comfy" and be my "age". I like to have some style, I like to express myself, have fun, wear black even. So today I bought black and stylish stuff, including a cute jumper with embroidered stars and moons and a grey cashmere top . Felt good. :)
100% i'm a 50 yo trans woman who used to be a bit of a punk. Then I tried to be normal and that just didn't work. Hard to fit in to the norm when you're so not normal in the first place.
Now I have an almost completely new wardrobe and I'm kinda trying to merge the two a bit and look like something kinda wierd some of the time stylish at other times. Helps that I have a lot of wigs for this bald old head and moved back into the city, but being visibly trans feels fucking great honestly. It supposed to be clunky for a few years anyway.
I didn't fit into the punk scene either honestly, but I was a part of it for a long time regardless and the people in it were a lot better than in the dance / nightclub scene I moved onto for professional reasons that's for sure. I found my tribe eventually but I realise now nothing is how you want it to be really and every community has it's fucking annoying insecure gatekeepers. I'm glad you enjoy your people of course.
Being a punk doesn't have to mean hanging out with other punks of course, for me it's always been a attitude and this has never changed regardless of how I chose to look.