I have a story. I'm a guy that has been using a female identity for nearly 7 years before finally bury it all and started a new one.
Long time short, this was from 2008 when I started playing WoW, I was like, on middle school and clueless considering that at that time I lived in a 3rd world country in southeast asia. There I learned the internet and stuff, I started playing female characters because I have no idea what to do. So on, I adopted the name, started to know how things work in the internet, especially online community, that I exactly remember the female blood elf rogue model and name.
Time pass, I discovered what is "Roleplaying", it started from a GM private server which I don't remember the name.
I'm using the identity as a female, a name, a story, a background, all fabricated like a CIA-made identity but a shitty version of it.
I learned things, my name started getting popular, I learned more about Roleplaying, then I moved to a RP Private Server (lets call it Server A), there I played using my female identity while simultaneously starting to get used with ERPing. At that time I started stealing off picture of girls on the internet and post it on their forums telling me that I'm a girl.
On that moment I was somehow "Addicted" to both RP and ERPing, I skip class, I stay up late because timezone difference at 2AM so I can play while the server is full, I didn't give a fuck about school. When I arrive at home, I just get on my computer, log on WoW, wandering around ingame with my female character despite that the server only have 5 player online at that time.
Not long, I played on a small server but died afterward before I come to another big server (which still alive by now) called Server F. At that time I started to build friends, internet friends where I have over 100 friends on Windows Live Messenger. Everyone thinks that I'm actually a girl, so I just played it like before. I become more notorious on that server. Few years later the server somehow died, and I joined another server called Server P, I joined it at August 2011, making me one of the founders of that server.
I played there, making more friends as someone that isn't me. My school stuff was getting better at that time since I just went to a good high school in my country, I slowly reduced my playtime, get things right, left the server for a while. On Junior of HS I decided to come back to Server P, where I started playing again until I was a GM on there.
I was addicted to Roleplaying and pretending to be a girl at some point that identity seems to be a part of myself.
At some point in my life I started to thing, I just literally spent countless hours from 2008, wasting my time.
I had an issue with myself.
Then so on, I decided to leave it all, I don't like being myself, I instantly hated that identity, a part of myself, a part where I learned the internet while learning english. I hated that I have to lie about my life to strangers on other part of this world, stealing other's picture and pretending its me.
I just recently buried that identity. I stopped using it as I just moved to the U.S to study in a kinda-pretigious univ with AFROTC program to get a better life.
tl;dr
>some anon pretends that hes a girl for nearly 7 years
>feels like a sore losers
>no meaning in life
>decides to leave it be
>so far so good
I still roleplay though, but rarely; just occasionally on F-list, and using an online identity but I don't go use someone's else identity to pretend its mine.
Feels so good that I finally relieved this.
I feel like that my heart is now calm.
Thanks for reading.