Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es

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You're good enough. You're valuable and you matter.

I just wrote this to someone directly and I thought that more people would benefit from reading it. I hope I made your day just a little brighter. You deserve it.

On that note, please try to be kind to yourself because you deserve to be treated with kindness. You're good enough. You're valuable and you matter.

PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".

It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.

And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.

Trans people who were assigned female at birth and who are on testosterone, how are your anger levels compared to before you started testosterone?

[ #poll #trans ]

Trans men on testosterone (boosts welcome), have you experienced more anger since beginning HRT?

I have a theory and maybe this is already posited somewhere or maybe is just my sphere of experience.

I feel like we hear less about midlife crisis es and partners completely fucking off.

But we hear more about transitioning and ENM.

I feel this is humans realizing communication and support is healthier and more enjoyable.

Much like gentle parenting, and all the other mentally and emotionally healthy practices we are trying to use to break past trauma.