I wrote about my experience here if anyone is interested in reading. The short version is that Life is Strange got me to actively question whether I was trans, as a result of me being absolutely obsessed with it and trying to figure out why I related so much to characters that were nothing like me on the surface. In all honesty, if it weren’t Life is Strange, it would have been something else. But that sure did speed up the process a bit.
It took me 3 years after asking myself directly if I was trans. I felt the need to figure things out independently for some reason. Partly out of shame and internalized transphobia I suppose.
I’ve been wanting to write more about it too - particularly about the weeks following that realization, which consisted of multiple revelations/epiphanies from recontextualizing things that had happened in my past under this new lens of understanding.
whoa wait I had almost the exact same situation with life is strange!! sadly I put off my egg cracking for another few years after that point but it’s wild that that game had such similar effects on two people who didn’t know they were trans at the time lol
edit: read your article as well. thanks so much for putting that experience into better words then I could choose <3
I wrote about my experience here if anyone is interested in reading. The short version is that Life is Strange got me to actively question whether I was trans, as a result of me being absolutely obsessed with it and trying to figure out why I related so much to characters that were nothing like me on the surface. In all honesty, if it weren’t Life is Strange, it would have been something else. But that sure did speed up the process a bit.
It took me 3 years after asking myself directly if I was trans. I felt the need to figure things out independently for some reason. Partly out of shame and internalized transphobia I suppose.
I’ve been wanting to write more about it too - particularly about the weeks following that realization, which consisted of multiple revelations/epiphanies from recontextualizing things that had happened in my past under this new lens of understanding.
whoa wait I had almost the exact same situation with life is strange!! sadly I put off my egg cracking for another few years after that point but it’s wild that that game had such similar effects on two people who didn’t know they were trans at the time lol
edit: read your article as well. thanks so much for putting that experience into better words then I could choose <3