Thursday, 10 October 2013

Thoughts on parenthood

I believe I’m still sort of considering having a child one day. I don't really talk much about it. Like I somehow think I have no right to have one. There are so many mixed feelings around that topic for me. Hopefulness, love, fear, insecurity, comfort, doubts. Would I be able to provide for a child when I can just barely take care of myself? How the hell would I afford it? Would I become a horrible parent? Would my child inherit a lot of not so desirable things from me? Would I bring it up myself or with a partner? Would it become a burden for my parents, who basically hate kids? They'd frigging hate me if I would one day tell them I’m gonna be a father. I can't even imagine how angry they'd be, but somewhere around furious I take it.

Still, it should be my choice. And now society is moving forward with the transsexuals becoming parents issue. I believe I have good reasons to want a child, but I’m also smart enough to realise the complications around that. My life situation isn't exactly optional, and even though I think I could get some sort of allowance from Försäkringskassan in a situation like that, if I still can't hold a job by that time, or would be a single parent and therefor wouldn't have time for a job. But I’m seriously way too messed up for such a full-time job as caring for a baby is.

My random fear right now is that if I’m gonna wait til I get better, that waiting could become too long. I’m quite young now, but I think it would probably not happen in the nearest five or ten years. And seriously, I want a kid now, not in seven years! Okay, back to reality. These thoughts are haunting me, and I’m scared that if there will ever be a time for parenthood in my life, it will be too damn late. I would be too old and testosterone would have fried my female parts. Perhaps there could be some middle ground though, that in a few years, say three or four, if I’m in better shape then than I am now, then I can squeeze one out. I suppose that is a reasonable plan, if I could hold my horses for that long, that is.

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