I dont want to live in this reality any more.

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    5 days ago

    I understand the meaning of it when it’s written in lowercase. I mean, I’m trans. Came out a decade and a half ago.

    When I see it written in all capital letters, it’s an acronym, and I have no idea what that acronym means.

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      5 days ago

      You have more patience than I, you were very clear above. I am not sure why some people capitalize it. I think it’s just a weird mistake that people think seems right because it doesn’t seem like “English”.

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        I didn’t grow up speaking English and only learned it in my teenage years. It makes me doubt whether my skills with three decades of English are proficient or not.

        でも、時々英語は本当に分かりにくい。しょうがない、ね?

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          Well in this case it was the person responding to you just not reading, I guess? Because you stated very obviously what you were curious about.

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      4 days ago

      “cis” gets written in all-caps because cis people are fucking stupid and don’t give a shit about learning the right terminology. that’s the gist of it

      sometimes they think it’s an acronym that means “comfortable in skin”

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        5 days ago

        Never mind, found a source that showed that sometimes cisgender people will write “CIS” in all capital letters to mean “comfortable in skin.”

        Which is really weird, but it tracks.