And 52 weeks in a year.

That's still missing some of the nuance. The way you're phrasing it paints a picture of having known at some point and deliberately burying it. This can also happen, and is called suppression. But it's also possible for this to happen without any conscious awareness from the beginning, which is repression. In that case, there's no "starting" to believe it, because you never had anything else to believe to begin with.

I like retrospective threads like this. Puts things in perspective. Growing up under conditions like that, it would have been weird if I hadn't repressed my gender identity. Pity things couldn't have changed earlier, and let me realize sooner.

Yeah, I'm with you. My understanding of the term "shitpost" is that it's, by definition, low-effort and/or low-quality.

Is this egg_irl?

You don't have to vote for Biden. In the primaries, vote for whoever you actually like. In the general, vote for the Democrats' candidate (however flawed they may be). In neither case are you obligated to frame it as voting for Biden as an individual.

Probably the biggest one for me was always feeling discomfort when being referred to or referring to myself as a "man". I didn't have any problem with words like "male", "guy", "dude", "lad", "boy", "fella", etc., but "man" was just one step too far, apparently.

Always figured it was just a reaction to my strong distaste for toxic masculinity, and/or a reluctance to grow up. With hindsight, it seems silly that it wasn't a dead giveaway.

Clicking through to the additional statistics is really interesting. The equivalent graph for Monthly Active Users shows a big bump in June/July 2023. That lines up with the reddit event, iirc. If those causality assumptions are accurate, it's neat how the numbers for total users is more affected by Twitter, but the numbers for active users is more affected by Reddit.

EDIT: nevermind, I didn't realize the timelines were different. The big Twitter exodus isn't actually in the second graph, so they can't be compared. It probably had a bigger impact there as well.

I used my chosen name for the account while setting up a fresh Windows installation. Seeing it on the login screen made me feel so euphoric that I broke into tears.

10/10, would build a PC again.

I like the sound of that! It's definitely on my list of priorities, but I haven't managed to start yet. Do you have any suggestions on the nature of the exercise? I struggle with energy and motivation, so keeping it simple and easy to implement is paramount. Planning to start simple with walking and stairs, then if/when I feel up to it, branch out into something basic like dumbbells or maybe novice yoga if that's safe to do without an instructor.

This screenshot is from 11 years ago.

Even if it is that low in relative terms, your point probably still stands.