Good articles together. Helena had one line which was perfect:
“An enormous amount of mental energy is devoted to the crowdsourcing of validation and firefighting of anything that triggers internal conflict, which is always nagging in the back of the mind.”
Absolutely. I routinely read what I see are seven levels of (exhausting) validation fictions to maintain, almost every singe one touched on by Helena.
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Good articles together. Helena had one line which was perfect:
“An enormous amount of mental energy is devoted to the crowdsourcing of validation and firefighting of anything that triggers internal conflict, which is always nagging in the back of the mind.”
Absolutely. I routinely read what I see are seven levels of (exhausting) validation fictions to maintain, almost every singe one touched on by Helena.
1. Internal fiction - I’m really a boy
2. Visual fiction - I look like a boy
3. Body fiction - I have a boy body
4. Social fiction - I am a boy to others
5. Science fiction - Biology says I’m a boy
6. Institutional fiction - I am a boy to doctors
7. Thought fiction - “she” doesn’t exist