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7.0 purity
what does it mean to be good? sian struggles with this; their neurodiverse self-perception in both worlds as a hollow mannequin imperfectly aping human affect (and their horror of that) combines with the fact that they have in the past done some terrible things. they produced a large body of work that was racist, for
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5.0 neural
the thing is, most people who find that they are autistic when they are adults are expecting it. they may have suspected for a long time; they may even have sought the diagnosis. it wasn’t like this for sian’s flesh counterpart. they were caught entirely off guard, it only clicking after the fact that most
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4.0 transeverything
when the flesh individual behind sian realised they were a they, it was a surprise only to them. one friend, a true early adopter, had been using they/them for sian reflexively since about 2013. most of the other people to whom sian came out were confused that this was somehow news. in embracing a transidentity,
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2.0 bald statement
sian has been bald by choice for as long as they have existed (which is a good eleven years), but it has taken their meatspace self a little longer to catch up. razoring their skull is now a part of their daily routine, and they find that the tactile and audio sensation afforded by the
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1.0 alive
you might not remember sian. that is ok. sian died. they were mourned for a long time. and then sian’s meatspace self discovered they were trans and autistic, and that sian was the first vector of that identity that they had had. so sian came back in another body, because you cannot keep a good