Gregory's Server
One of the subtle but universally-recontextualizing experiences I've had from transitioning has been the realization that people's sensory experiences are -vastly- more divergent from each other than I had ever assumed previously.
'cuz like, yeah, I'm a bit nearsighted; people put signs in places where I have to squint or have my glasses on to see them; obviously they're not going to do that if they have discomfort when they put 'em up - so their sensory experience of the world differs from mine in that way.
But from transitioning I've had changes in my perception of color - like, actual shifts in the perception of color values, to the point where things I would have labeled as 'green' I can now see are blue - of smell, of taste, of touch - every sense is now fundamentally a different experience than it was before.
And that's just the base-level body senses of the world outside, not even counting the interpersonal experiences.
It's given me a lot to think about, with how people have fundamentally divergent experiences of reality - how even the same exact situation will be parsed by different people differently, because their sensory experiences may well have marked divergence.
And it's given me a new appreciation for how imprecise language is - because language, the API that lets us communicate these experiences, will always be lossy and -that's a good thing-.
One of the subtle but universally-recontextualizing experiences I've had from transitioning has been the realization that people's sensory experiences are -vastly- more divergent from each other than I had ever assumed previously.
'cuz like, yeah, I'm a bit nearsighted; people put signs in places where I have to squint or have my glasses on to see them; obviously they're not going to do that if they have discomfort when they put 'em up - so their sensory experience of the world differs from mine in that way.
I guess that's why we have poetry.