post-self.ink/content/extras/ic-asks/002.md

Do you think it is possible to know others better than one knows themself? Is truly knowing anybody to that level even possible?

Hold My Name Beneath Your Tongue And Know

(@makyo)

Given the circuitous path I have taken with my own identity and how long it took me to figure out just why that fit so well, and given the rolling of eyes that I received when I told my down-tree instance But The Dead Know Nothing, I think I ought to say that it is most certainly possible for others to know one better than one knows oneself, even if only on the level of a microcosm.

"I think I am transgender," I said, and she laughed in my face. She laughed!

"Oh, honey," she said. "I am quite pleased that you have caught up at last."