Transitioning. Turned me from an empty husk of a person suffering from depression with a nothing life who was just going through the motions into someone happy, with a million hobbies and endless thirst for life.

Even when I understood what GD was and how it was affecting me, I never expected just how much there would be to me once that dark cloud has been lifted, especially how much changed once I started passing well enough I’d be gendered correctly all the time. It was rough to DIY hormones as a teen, but 10 years later, I feel truly blessed.

Being adopted.

A few for me:

• Death of my father.
• Getting married. Hitting 20 years in August. Hopefully many more to come.
• Realising I didn’t enjoy the business course I was on in college, burning the two years already spent and moving to computer science which I loved every minute of.
• Having kids. They bring me so much joy.
• Leaving a well paid job that I didn’t really enjoy and starting my own business.
• Travel. It’s so important to experience different cultures and viewpoints.
• edit: Finding a sport that I loved. I wasn’t a sporty kid but decided to start trying different things in my 20s.

The first big breakup which pushed me to reevaluate everything and then learning about this little thing call psychology which, eventually, led to the understanding that I have ADHD. That knowledge turned my whole world upside-down. For the better.

The pandemic.

Probably getting a Gameboy Color as a gift from my mom as a young child, and then one more time when my mom let me play games on her (not made for gaming) home computer while she was at work. It started me down a lifelong path of loving games, and my initial leaning towards handheld systems and then straight into PC gaming gave me a lot more flexibility with the sorts of games I enjoyed and found entertaining, alongside all of the things that the internet showed me as I explored it.

Breaking up with girl at 24 and always regretting it.

Apologies for the off topic reply but:

Ironically, the movie Deep Impact has had a negligible effect on my life and that of most other humans and members of other species.

Learning to distinguished between what actually happened and the narratives my mind has about what happened.

The 2 suicidal periods in my life.

The year 2013. All of it.