How do transgender people remember their earlier selves? | Psyche Ideas
Every trans person also goes through a stage of misgendering themselves in their own minds too.
Alo Johnston • Am I Trans Enough?: How to Overcome Your Doubts and Find Your Authentic Self
"It’s so strange how we’re able to carry forward this mystery of personal identity even when our present selves are so different from our future selves and from our past selves most of all. I think a lot about this question of, what is a person? Am I the same person as my childhood self? Sure, we share the same body, but even that body is so differ... See more
Maria Popova • Maria Popova — Cartographer of Meaning in a Digital Age
Early, I used the term "fragment personality" simply to give you this idea that identity was not a unit that could be easily defined.
All consciousness is interrelated. It flows together in currents, rises and falls, eddies and breaks, mixes and merges. In this great interplay, however, each identity, however brief in usual terms, is never
... See moreJane Roberts • The Afterdeath Journal of an American Philosopher
Had she changed as much as her hair? Probably. She wondered if she could even be considered the same person now that every cell in her body had been replaced, more than once. It didn’t seem to matter so much when the effect was growth and health but now that shrinkage and damage were the order of events, it mattered a lot. Was it possible that her
... See moreSophie Ward • Love and Other Thought Experiments
Using memories, we also ‘image-in’ our past. We imagine history.
Kat Adamson • Sailor Bob
With regard to memory, think of it like this: From the innumerable events that have happened in a person’s past, that person chooses only those events that are compatible with their present goals, gives meaning to them, and turns them into memories. And conversely, events that run counter to the present goals are erased.