Jasmine running on Nostr: “Fighting the world as your authentic self is better than fighting yourself on ...
“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]
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]