I relate to this so much. for years, even after I knew that I was trans, I thought that I didn’t really experience gender dysphoria. it was only after I started transitioning that I realized how much it had affected me
The first time I saw this thread (which was when I read the gender dysphoria bible, which includes this thread and I think some other tweets with trans perspectives), I cried and finally accepted I was trans because I realized it was describing my life to a T.
I had sort of known I was trans for 8 years and sort of accepted it as true without acknowledging it or allowing it to enter the forefront of my thoughts except during occasional moments of deep introspection, but I felt like I was only technically trans, but it wasn’t really impacting my life. This (along with the other stuff I read that night) made me realize I’m not an edge case or something close to but not quite trans. What I am and what trans means are the same thing.
The only thing I disagreed with was about not knowing about career goals, but that’s just because I stumbled into a couple easy defaults I could just go with.
