“Fighting the world as your authentic self is better than fighting yourself on behalf of the world.”

This quote inflicted on me a severe concussion of the identity, when I stumbled upon it in an unrelated article* back in January 2022.

It set off and guided a months-long outbreak of hyperfocused, ruthless self-examination, where I uncovered my own structural dissociation and eventually identified trauma, a process that quite abruptly led to the realisation, seemingly coming out of nowhere, that I'm trans.

*So what was that unrelated article about then? Being #trans. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I still have the link: https://www.self.com/story/before-transitioning

[repost from January 1st 2023 on my previous account]