29/Dec/2019 - "If you have had to put off trauma for decades just to survive in a kind of perpetual crisis mode, you may find that when you stop doing that it suddenly feels like pain is coming from nowhere. You were just kicking it down the road. This is what I am pretty sure is up with transitioning and then realizing how incredibly awful it feels to be treated like something you're not: you probably didn't have a point of contrast before with which to compare your everyday experience.