(30-07-2012, 06:29 AM)flamesabers Wrote: Maybe the differences in our personalities could account for how much or how little brain rewiring we experience?
I tend to agree about that, although there could be a chicken-and-egg situation at work. Surely the male/female hormone balance and the effect on the brain both in the womb and in life is going to be one of the biggest factors in expressed personality?
(30-07-2012, 06:29 AM)flamesabers Wrote: Or perhaps those who are more closeted about their gender dysphoria in real life are more likely to report having brain rewiring?
In the sense that those who have hidden it for a long time may get the biggest sense of relief? - that certainly has a logic to it.
My own gut feeling is that it probably has to do with the actual level of androgen exposure ( or lack of) in the womb. Those that have the 'furthest from normal' exposure to androgens will have the greatest need for oestrogen supplement subsequently to give the brain what it is programmed for. Logically then this ought to give rise to the greatest subconcious sense of mismatch, undefined disquiet and subsequent stress. In turn that ought to bring the greatest sense of relief once oestrogen becomes available, which would manifest itself as the 'brain rewiring' experience.
For me I've always said that I am right in the middle and comfortable with who/what I am, and I was aware of that 40 years before I ever heard of any of this stuff!