YUN, samnang eric

The baby of six children total, Sam was definitely the spoiled baby of the family. He almost always got what he wanted. Conversely, his older siblings were still just that, especially his older brothers. Sam learned to be quick or get nothing, and it shows, most often when eating. However, this has also helped Sam to be a quick thinker, and is good at making split second decisions. He's cautious when meeting new people, though isn't necessarily shy. He loves coffee to the point caffeine doesn't affect him, and it's likely he'll want it at any time of the day. He's neat in upkeep and likes to "dress up" and cosplay often, just for fun.
Occasionally, though not often, Sam will get hyper-depressed. Because he hasn't yet gotten any surgeries, there's still certain "parts" of him that aren't right. Though it doesn't really happen anymore, it used to really bother him back during his school years, and he has a history of self-harm, though his parents have had him working with a therapist to attempt to fix the problem. Though it's helped, the family, therapist, and Samnang himself came to the conclusion the depression will not completely disappear until he feels he's in the correct body.


Samnang was born Samantha Erica Yun on April 11, 1996 to two Cambodian parents, preceeded by three older brothers and two older sisters. She was a healthy baby, but by the time she passed one year old, she began throwing extreme and occasionally violent tantrums. Her parents and doctors were puzzled, and it lasted a few years until she was about three years old and could talk in longer sentences, saying she didn't want to wear dresses. She began telling her parents she was a boy. At first her parents just thought it was because she was close to her brothers, but they realized they'd have to face the facts as Samantha would constantly yell that they weren't buying her the right clothes, the right toys, or calling her by the right gender pronouns. They took her to a psychiatrist, who suggested she might have gender dysphoria, and suggested they try letting her dress and act as a boy. Her parents were reluctant at first, but eventually agreed. They were amazed and elated to find the tantrums stopped almost completely. After research, they realized if this was what path their daughter wanted, they should accept it, or face the chance of losing their daughter all together.
At five years old, they registered Samantha as a boy, and changed his name to "Samnang," meaning "lucky," as suggested by Samnang himself after saying he was lucky to have such a good, understanding family. Around ten years old, the doctor suggested it would be wise to begin hormone treatments, if that was what Samnang really wanted.
By middle school, Samnang had made enough new friends, Samantha was merely a memory. Samnang got interested in skateboarding, as well as violin. He began taking lessons after school for the violin, and would use the internet to learn skateboarding in his spare time.
These days, Samnang is a happy, relatively normal teenager. He's still careful to avoid letting people know all together that was born a girl, though in high school some of the guys began to suspect because he'd always change in the bathroom stalls. Conversely, he was also lucky enough to make friends he trusted with his secret, such as @ziuk. He hasn't had any surgery done yet, but because of the early hormone treatments, he never really grew breasts in the first place, and then he's waiting for the surgery to become more established before he pursues the more "personal" surgeries.
He currently works as a cashier at Starbucks (which he says is "upgraded" from a mall juice stand), and is a freshman in college. He's not sure where he wants his life to go yet, but he's in no rush to figure it out yet.