What happened in the over a year since I stopped interacting?

Not much, truth be told. Most of the year was spent cowering in anxiety.

Personal feelings crystallized in a more complete way after overcoming years of repression and so I'm comfortable just calling myself a non-binary lizard now, which was always the obvious truth anyway.

I moved in with a close friend who I love very much and I'm much happier because of that, closer to family now also.