2/2 But I'm actually even more inconsiderate than that.

I want to take all the boxes away! Those boxes mean that cis people don't have to do the work and can go on pretending that they live in a world they understand.

I want cis people to take on the discomfort of being uncertain of another person's gender identity and just LIVE with that uncertainty Permanently. There's no reason you need to know my gender identity in most meetings and social events.

(OK, don your eye protection because I'm about to take off my normal-person mask. The harsh light of autistic lack-of-theory-of-mind blasts out whenever I do that, and it makes people uncomfortable.)

We're none of us cis. When it comes to gender, we're all floating in a confusing sea of what-the-fuck, and our gender identities are just flotsam we're holding on to to keep us afloat.

That's OK. It's better to float than to drown. Or you can surf! Or scuba dive...

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Eternal Punishment

Stubborn rock, bound to
Sisyphus in immortal
Struggle, love's labor's lost.

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