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[–]Lizzythelezzo 100 insightful - 6 fun100 insightful - 5 fun101 insightful - 6 fun -  (1 child)

"If you can literally be erased by other people's wrongthink, do you even really exist in the first place???"

Most trans people have personality disorders like BPD/NPD, where they lack a basic sense of self and feel like they don't exist. So on some level, they probably don't believe they exist unless people acknowledge them. They lack a core self and identity that most people develop as very young children.

[–]whateverneverpine 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Goddamit, I have these feelings of "not existing," trauma history, the whole shebang. Yet, somehow I manage to interact with people and pull together shreds of self-esteem, and some days I feel pretty damn good. Even with the whole lack of core self that plagues me from childhood trauma. Goddam them.