Battling the `Person-I-Think-They-Want-Me-To-Be’
[CW: internalised homophobia and transphobia] There’s an alien mind-snatcher that’s been squatting in my brain for forty years. The `Person-I-Think-They-Want-Me-To-Be’ (PITTWAM-2B) is its name, and people-pleasing is its game. But recently I’ve begun to ask the question: is it me, or the PITTWAM-2B, who’s making this decision? The PITTWAM-2B is …