Trauma, healing, MH(+)
My gender stuff was comparably easy.
My deep, inner trauma from being Gaslit, less so.
This is what happens when, growing up, your Role Models are Starfleet Officers.
Your own idea of Adulthood is unattainable as long as there's Narcissists around.
And what's so bad about expecting that Human Beings can be Better than they are now, huh?