Thanks for this. I suggest, in addition, that Q3.1 is flawed and presumptive in itself. A better query might be, "at what age did you perceive yourself to be different from others of your sex?"
In my experience, the initial awareness is not a rejection of one's own sex, but an internal questioning, a "who am I" (common to all) in which so…
Thanks for this. I suggest, in addition, that Q3.1 is flawed and presumptive in itself. A better query might be, "at what age did you perceive yourself to be different from others of your sex?"
In my experience, the initial awareness is not a rejection of one's own sex, but an internal questioning, a "who am I" (common to all) in which some children come to understand that expectations of their milieu differ from the sense of self. Until ROGD became a sanctioned thing, the answer for many may have been: be you, your own kind of expression of your self.
For those in an unaccepting milieu, life could be hell and emergence into a self came later, with independence from parents, milieu.
For the lucky, it meant coming into one's own through life's lessons from the day one realizes that it is not the child, but the world, that needs to change toward accepting the many ways of being male or female.
For anybody, coming into oneself is not an easy progress. We just pretend that it is. My two cents.
Based on what I read and what I hear from teens and young adults, their self-development as individuals relating to peers is basically about them being online or on text of some type. The level of untempered aggression and extreme narcissism online that young people report is very high, which doesn't support positive self esteem in people who are targeted. In addition, the "self" that is developed is intended from the beginning to be a role performed for a camera, with an approving audience, so it's just a persona really.
The personas that young people use to get attention and be cool are weird right now, but they always have been in some youth subcultures. Playing with masculinity and femininity would have been safer for young people if the Establishment of "liberal" adults who comprise their parents and teachers had remained sane, stable and separate. The level to which the upper middle and upper classes have succumbed to the woke mind virus is astonishing to me.
Thanks for this. I suggest, in addition, that Q3.1 is flawed and presumptive in itself. A better query might be, "at what age did you perceive yourself to be different from others of your sex?"
In my experience, the initial awareness is not a rejection of one's own sex, but an internal questioning, a "who am I" (common to all) in which some children come to understand that expectations of their milieu differ from the sense of self. Until ROGD became a sanctioned thing, the answer for many may have been: be you, your own kind of expression of your self.
For those in an unaccepting milieu, life could be hell and emergence into a self came later, with independence from parents, milieu.
For the lucky, it meant coming into one's own through life's lessons from the day one realizes that it is not the child, but the world, that needs to change toward accepting the many ways of being male or female.
For anybody, coming into oneself is not an easy progress. We just pretend that it is. My two cents.
Based on what I read and what I hear from teens and young adults, their self-development as individuals relating to peers is basically about them being online or on text of some type. The level of untempered aggression and extreme narcissism online that young people report is very high, which doesn't support positive self esteem in people who are targeted. In addition, the "self" that is developed is intended from the beginning to be a role performed for a camera, with an approving audience, so it's just a persona really.
The personas that young people use to get attention and be cool are weird right now, but they always have been in some youth subcultures. Playing with masculinity and femininity would have been safer for young people if the Establishment of "liberal" adults who comprise their parents and teachers had remained sane, stable and separate. The level to which the upper middle and upper classes have succumbed to the woke mind virus is astonishing to me.