So… sex has been a little weird for me lately. Most of that is thanks to stress and trauma, and some lingering insecurity issues, but I’ve also been coming to some pretty big truths about myself in terms of my needs, wants, desires, and boundaries. Namely, in how I wasn’t really centring any of that…
Tag: mental health
Bouncing Back
It’s hard enough going through a succession of back to back breakups, but doing so while also in the midst of a brutal emotional low following months of being made to feel inadequate, insecure, like a failure, shamed about your other relationships, and generally bad about yourself in every conceivable way, is extra fucking rough….
How Dysphoria Feels to Me as a Nonbinary Queer
It’s weird feeling like something isn’t quite right about your body, yet having absolutely no idea of how to quantify or qualify that because there’s no comparison to go off of. Generally, it just feels real fucking bad. That’s what dysphoria is like for me. It’s both uncertain, and yet also all encompassing at the…
More an Enboy Than an Enby
“Enboy, also known as guyby and menby, is a term for someone who is a non-binary man. It can be used by anyone who identifies as both a man and as non-binary. It can include multigender people with a non-binary gender and man, gendervast people, people who are genderfluid or genderflux between non-binary and male,…
A Little Bit More
Again, there’s something especially empowering to me about seeing myself from my partner’s perspective. When I look down at myself, down at my body, with all of my acne and blemishes and scars, I just don’t see it. I don’t see how anyone could possibly be attracted to me. Could possibly want to touch me….