date: 11/13/2024
mood: creepy and weird
i love aliens
hi :) i feel great rn. i mean i'm a little triggered eating disorder wise but otherwise i don't feel depressed and i have nothing to be anxious about. i'm kind of just desiring more routine in my life, and feeling disappointed when i don't live up to my own standards.
i've been having a lot of shower thoughts about my body. i used to turn my brain off when i showered, i sometimes would think about things that i read or funny stuff, but i would mostly dissociate. now i've confronted my naked form in the mirror so many times, trying to exposure-therapy myself into accepting it as my own, and, surprisingly, it's worked somewhat. and now when i'm in the shower i do like to keep my thoughts on my body, not really in it's shape, but just how i feel in it, the way the air and water feels around my skin, and how it works internally. sometimes i'm not sure if the gender dysphoria will ever go away, especially socially. whenever i'm in an environment with people i don't know those feelings flood into me, every time. i wish i moved through the world like a man. when i see the masculine form i feel such an intense jealousy. there's nothing about the female gender role that feels like me. but there are also aspects of the male gender role that are unsuited to me as well. i feel like if i did transition, i could make it fit for me. i'm not going to try to make the female one fit, i just have to find a safe way to live outside of it. i hate the idea of loving women as a woman, and loving men as a woman. that's one of the most terrifying things about accepting my sex as me. i might have to shed my clothes for someone i love. and then i can't pretend the clothes make me something else. i'm just rambling at this point.
i think i'm very lonely, but i can't fix that.
i finished both pornography and red star almost a week ago, so i was aiming pretty low my last entry. what i didn't do was getting exercise :/ i mean, i did some yoga, so that's good, but i hardly get enough privacy at my mom's and my dad's for that. this is why i should be at my aunts for most of the week tbh. it's nice and quiet there, i always get up early, it's really nice to change my environment in order to get work done. i could ask my mom to drop me off at the library for school though. i've been reading a book called homosexual desire in revolutionary russia, which is so predictable... it got recommended to me in z-lib after downloading a couple biographies of magnus hirschfeld. i'm surprised i hadn't seen this book earlier. it's a fun read. that other history book i'm reading on the dutch-german communist left can also be really entertaining, especially the last section i read about karl radek. i've also begun to reread capital volume 1. i can't believe it was over a year ago that i finished it. i need this book injected into my veins.
some goals for reading for the next 2.5 weeks are to read a bit of each of my books daily except for bordiga beyond the myth, which i will read 15-20 pages of every 2 days. maybe i can start the dialectic of sex by firestone bc i hear she's cool. anywayy goodbye.