30-07-2012, 09:53 AM
Aha Pansy Mae,
I think you nailed it. There's a couple of little glands at the bottom of the brain that make the hormones to direct other glands to make steroids. So what's different is not what happens inside the brain, or gestures that are directly controlled by nerve endings. It's the communication between your brain and your body via chemical transmitters. That's what hormones do.
I started seeing a therapist 5 years before starting hops. She says the way I think is still typically me. But after starting hops, I didn't feel like being out in drag any more. I also notice there's more ways my body and my mind communicate than there used to be.
Being alone or in company has more effect on how I feel than it used to have. Whether or not I enjoyed small talk was independent of how many people and who were around me. Right now, some people make me shut down, some get me going. It used to make no difference whether I was giving a presentation for five or fifty people. After hops, my presentation style became differentiated: more intimate for small groups, more theatrical for large audiences.
I think you nailed it. There's a couple of little glands at the bottom of the brain that make the hormones to direct other glands to make steroids. So what's different is not what happens inside the brain, or gestures that are directly controlled by nerve endings. It's the communication between your brain and your body via chemical transmitters. That's what hormones do.
I started seeing a therapist 5 years before starting hops. She says the way I think is still typically me. But after starting hops, I didn't feel like being out in drag any more. I also notice there's more ways my body and my mind communicate than there used to be.
Being alone or in company has more effect on how I feel than it used to have. Whether or not I enjoyed small talk was independent of how many people and who were around me. Right now, some people make me shut down, some get me going. It used to make no difference whether I was giving a presentation for five or fifty people. After hops, my presentation style became differentiated: more intimate for small groups, more theatrical for large audiences.