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Ever had depression? Ever tried explaining it to somebody but they brush you off?

One man's "Depression" is another man's "normal brain function; life just gets hard sometimes and that's natural." Explaining to the latter person how dehabilitating the experience is doesn't matter because one person cares about subjective inner experience and the other cares about mechanistic physiology.

Similarly, one person's puberty can be extremely traumatic. People who aren't trans wouldn't understand.



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