Every once in a while a trans woman asks if it's normal to not remember large swaths of her childhood and the answer is always trauma, trauma, trauma.

@gwynnion is that before or after they transition... because there's a lot of gaps back there and ...

#NotAnEgg

@avatastic Both, at least in my case, but I always knew. Even as a child, I spent a lot of time in a dissociative haze because I consciously didn't want to be there, and trying to think about my situation or remember things was like reaching into a bag filled with snakes. After a point, I didn't want to remember. But you can't always help that either.