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Holy shit I am so anxious I just had to put the book down and take a walk. No longer experiencing gender envy or envy or any kind. It’s like watching a car crash. I can’t look away.

he excited to take the PSAT… oh hell nah.

“In what may have been his only valuable remotely therapeutic insight ever, Dr. Apple once told me that I intellectualize things to depersonalize them. To make them less painful.”

I’m experiencing immense gender envy reading this. I need to be a boy (with spectacular vocabulary) at boarding school in the early 2000s.

“There’s a weird element of masochism to my anxiety. When I’m anxious, I find that I choose to keep engaging the very thoughts that are making me anxious—kind of like scratching poison ivy.” (268)