Hopefully this will make me feel better, I have so much i have to say and no one i can talk to. I just found this site.
I'm not sure what to type so ill just type it as it comes to me, sorry if it sounds disjointed.
I'm aussie, 18, 5'11", healthy, a bit overweight (83kg), very handsome and deeply depressed.
I have had Gyn, as you call it, for as long as I can remember. Infact, the furtherest i can think back was in 4th grade doing a safety swimming test which involved swimming in a speedo (lol) and i remember holding my arms around my body. Although, my breasts couldn't have been very big back then.. =/
I am now ADEPT at hiding myself. I'm like.. a ninja. I have always hidden myself both physically and mentally. More so in highschool, which is finally over. In grade 7 when i had to change out of my school shirt into my soccer jersy i'd walk to the back of the field and face the road so nobody could see me as i HASTILY swapped shirts. And in grade 8 and 9 when changing into sports uniform in the locker room i would find a corner and stay in it as i changed, luckily there were obese people that got the attention. In senior i ALWAYS wore a jacket, and to hide the truth i made it into a game saying that i would win a bet for the longest time wearing a jumper in the sweltering sun. How stupid.. Now In university i have an array of nice dress shirts which hide me nicely.
Okay.. what next
Ever since i was around 9 (the year of my parents divorce, i dont blame this on that event but it may be notable) I've been pudgy, before then i was such a skinny mick! I remember when i was 6 i did swimming and because i was so lean and long i had to swim at the deep end because i was cheating.
Through high school I was a fairly average height i guess, but under developed and a bit pudgy (not like your typical fat kid, just puppy fat, you know?) But yeah, I am a very slow developer. My voice started breaking at the end of last year (late 17) and pubic hair started at 15. My voice now is deeper and breaking, things are growing, hair is really growing, I don't have any facial hair but now the hair over my top lip is darkening.
Sorry this sounds like a puberty story..
When I was 16 and doing biology (im a science undergraduate at the moment) we studying hereditary diseases, klinefelters, turners etc. This was very hard for me and I used to come home, get on the internet, look at pictures and weep. i'd often tell me mum that i feel something is wrong with me (never mentioned heriditary diseases) and she reassured me saying that If there was any "disease" it would have been picked up in my tests at birth and that ALL my family have been late developers (this is sadly true). Over the holidays I really started changing, I have lost A LOT of weight off my face and shoulders, my clavicle now protrudes, i see the glands in my neck and i have a well defined chin and jaw line. (maybe it will work its way down and kill the gyn..)
I have really had a rough childhood in my personal life, but i have been very fortunate with my social life, I was very popular at every school, I had the best friends and i was never teased
So now for the point. I am terrified of doctor's as I'm afraid they will diagnose me. I know i have gyn and I'm not going to get surgery, I know there is a way to beat it and maybe ill grow out of it. But i am concerned I may have klinefelters..
If I get diagnosed and I found out i have klinefelter's, i will kill myself. No i am not being a drama queen
and no i am not seeking attention in saying this. I will kill myself. Without reproduction my life if pointless and I refuse to live as a mutant.
So with feelings like this, how can I get help?
My father is extremely supportive and fairly wealthy. I now have a beautiful smile due to the $4000 braces be bought me and he helps me with the clothes to hide myself, but he just thinks its fat, not hormone induced. (though, maybe he does know and thinks i don't know)
I'm not going to proof read this, it will make me more depressed. Just please post any thoughts or advise you would have for me and ask any questions. Please.
Edit: I posted pretty hastily as i was excited to be able to explain my issues, looking at all your pictures i deffinatly have gyne, but i dont just have the fatty breast, i have a band of fat across from my chest under my armpit and on my back ( as well as tummy and love handles)
Perhaps it will go as i pass through puberty - if i go to a doctor, hes just going to say im fat and need to lose weight, which i do