Identity, and Names A beautiful quote form a Disqus Blog post. In fact I find the quote quite aptly describes me. For example, I detest my birth name. While people I know in real life use it, when online friends refer to me by my online pseudonym, for some reason I find it less jarring. If I had to guess, the reason for this is because the majority of friends I’ve made throughout my life, have been online, so my sense of identity online strengthened while I dissociated from my real identity more and more. Read more

I thought I’d write something a bit less heavy this time. I’m a “night owl”, which if you don’t know what that means, I basically am awake mostly in the afternoon and at very late hours in the night / early morning (the opposite of most people). I also happen to live in a small town (ironically, the larger in my county), so there’s really nothing much to do at night since the town is “dead”. Read more

Preface This is going to be another post that just rambles. A bit of context I prefer, most of the time, to not have my personal space violated, I’d assume this is the norm among the majority of people. For me it stems from trust issues that I’ve had for quite a while now. I won’t scream or pitch a fight if my personal space is violated, rather I try to tell the person who violated it not to make the same mistake again. Read more

Preface: NSFW. This one might get weird, and rambly. That’s the difficulty with writing about things you don’t remember clearly. What is Gender Dysphoria? As not everybody reading this might know what gender dysphoria is right off, I’ll try to provide a simple definition. Gender dysphoria is a condition where a person emotionally and psychologically identifies as the opposite of one’s biological sex. E.g. A person who is biologically male would identify as female. Read more

First initial test post.