It feels like a lot of people are really attached to where they live, and we're... kinda not? some of that might be because we spent our childhood moving every six to seven years, but a lot of it is we've never really had any local friends, all our socializing has always been online

which i guess is why we were perfectly willing to pack up and move from alabama to oregon on approximately one-month notice when we got a job, but it also means we kinda tend to assume others would be too
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@Felthry leaving the city I grew up in wasn't too big a deal for me.

But now I have a deep sense of community here in Seattle, to the point where the thought of being ripped away from it is one of my larger anxieties.

@starkatt I wonder if we'll ever feel like that about a place, or if we just don't get the physical community aspect

dysphoria of both gender and species varieties makes it kind of painful to get too close to anyone in orthocosm
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@Felthry gender dysphoria isn't something I've seen you talk about much. If I may ask, what's going on there?

@starkatt Not, really sure? the species dysphoria is a lot more but the main gender thing is voice
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@starkatt Oh, also facial/body hair

which can be taken care of more easily but anxiety of What If People Notice And We Have To Explain
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@Felthry :nod: addressing facial / body hair sounds pretty worthwhile to me. I mean, I've been there, so... :D

Is there something specific you're worried about colleagues noticing and reacting to?

@starkatt Not really anything specific, no. Just the usual anxiety of having to Explain Things
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