I bought a book to help me with my gender anxiety adventure and it has an introductory essay, a forward, an introduction, and a preface
Like holy fuck maybe consider starting a book
that said, like, I know what it is, i know what pronouns resonate with me, i know many other secrets, but I’m just a big disaster about them
It’s very similar to my experience earlier this year when I discovered I still had a few human emotions left that I thought I had brutally murdered several years prior
So this is maybe coping with zombie gender in the same way that I was doing zombie feelings
maybe read some books that are like a biography from people about their own experiences? None come to mind but they might explain things better and not in a ‘you have to read this essay and then write your own phd on it’ level
I actually got a book by a nonbinary person who is a therapist, which is kind of the perfect combo of what I want - personal connection and some kind of authority to speak on a medical/therapeutic/health level.
I’m a ball of anxious headache about it, and despite four starts, this book has been good for The Calming.
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