Denial ("I feel comfortable being addressed and seen as a guy, so I can't be enby")
Anger ("Why do people always ignore the 'it' in 'it/he'?")
Bargaining ("I just care a lot about respecting pronouns, so that's why I get upset. I'm just doing this to add to enby visibility, because I don't really mind.")
Depression ("I suppose people just don't like referring to humans with pronouns normay used for objects, that's just how it is")
Acceptance ("Okay I definitely feel good about being called 'it', so I'm probably agender")
Bargaining again ("Maybe I'm some in-between? Not really cis, but not really enby either?") Proceeds to cycle between Denial, Bargaining, Acceptance and Bargaining again, with Anger and Depression playing a constant tug-of-war as backdrop
Insert meme of mother yelling at her kid "Why can't you just be normal", but it's me yelling at my Identity "Why can't you just be simple"
I mostly exist beyond this menial earthly scale but do on occasion return to anger and depression quite frequently. Mostly due to being purposefully misgendered. I'm not a girl, and not transfem, I don't have a gender
Denial was never a thing I went through, ever, I am indeed happy and comfortable with being called a boy, even though I'm not really. I still say I'm a femboy because that describes my experience of dressing up and being cute. Doesn't mean I am a boy.
No idea. I didn't make the meme, but my guess is it's a reference to a sliver of time in r/egg_irl's history where every other post was Re:Zero themed.
Oh yeah the whole thing with Felix. I remember that 😬.
I'm not surprised that would make someone angry, as someone agender who does identify with the femboy experience it did make me a bit angry, especially when people said it made me a girl (egg prime directive wasn't practiced much back then). Though thankfully things have gotten better these days (here I mean, not on Reddit, I haven't touched Reddit).
There's a fascinating reason! Estrogen has a profound impact on your brain!
In addition to being one of the main hormones that is responsible for regulating the female reproductive system, estrogen also plays a role in cognitive function. It modulates the neurotransmitters serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine. These neurotransmitters help with focus, concentration, mood, and memory.
That's why when a ciswoman with ADHD has a massive dip in estrogen (my body will essentially suddenly stop production of estrogen to trigger a period) their symptoms drastically worsen.
And why a person taking e might find their ADHD symptoms lessen!
Stage 5: I both know that I'm a girl and am consistently too depressed to do anything about it. Hrt is hard to get where I am and tbh I don't have the energy to fight back against the world as they crush my spirit every day.
Affirming my gender is necessary for me to have the energy to get out of bed. I was literally nonfunctional before I came out. Starting and staying on e has been the driving force in my life for the past year. Why fight for myself if I hate who I am?
Stage 5. I have persistent and horrible dysphoria from my voice which I know will never pass as a girl without voice surgery. Which I'll probably be unable to get for quite a while.
Maybe I should learn sign language and say I'm mute. I'd rather be mute than have a horrible masculine ass voice.
I did voice training for years and even though I did get good I was never able to pass. People who are trans supportive say my voice sounds feminine to be nice to me but I know it doesn't pass because I got second opinions anonymously from people who didn't know I was trans or at least whether I was masc or fem. They all said my voice sounded masculine, even though I was trying as best I could do to sound feminine.
Would you want to be a girl in nonsexual situations? When driving to work or sitting alone, would it still be fun to be feminine? You can definitely live as a man and have sex as woman, but would you be disappointed if that's all it is?
I'm comfortable living as a man, and before I imagined myself as a woman in sexual situations I had never thought about it. I think I'm a bit ignorant as to what affect gender has on nonsexual situations. Like how does having boobs or not change anything when you're just sitting alone?
I just don't think I care that much about my body either way.