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[scrolls through my entire history, not that it takes long]

[Oh shit, have I seriously not posted that yet...?]

So this is the coming out video of Abigail Thorn (of Philosophy Tube and @theabigailthorn here). While this was not part of my own "egg cracking" I remember watching it (it was the FIRST PT video I'd ever seen) and being rocked to my core about how much this resonated with my own experiences.

It's probably fair to say that it may not have cracked the egg but it most certainly fried it up with hash browns and some toast. This inspired a lot of the framing I usually use to describe my dysphoria and at the time brought together a lot of disconnected threads that formed my experience into one coherent picture, probably for the first time.

I re-watch this every once in a while and it has been on my "things to send my parents when I finally come out to them" list. That is, until a short time ago when I finally did.

Each time I re-watch it, I'm still in awe of the pacing, the clever use of theatrical allegory, the artistry and thought behind the production.

And then I laugh as I remember this was the first video of hers I ever watched.