I'm just going to vent here because I can't bring this up on any other form of social media.
I had a real-life friend who was raised in an Xtian cult and did missionary work. By the time we met he'd left the cult, converted to a liberal/humanist sect of a different religion, and was extremely progressive. My spouse and I bonded with him over leaving cults. We were close to him and his wife for several years.
Then he came out as non-binary and received an adult diagnosis of ADHD and was very...militant? About both. As in, literally said that only the trans community should be able to use the word "transition" (as opposed to Black people using it to describe death) and other things that seemed like, well, tumblr SJ antics. In someone past 40. But we were supportive even if he was annoying about it.
Then after about a year, he announced he wasn't nonbinary after all. Almost immediately he started posting right-wing (literal Bari Weiss Free Press) stuff on both trans-ness and ADHD/autism. As in, pro-detransition, anti-diagnosis, you name it. He basically blew up all his relationships and flounced.
I miss that friendship but I feel the person I was friends with never really existed. It was just one persona after another, careening between extremes.
Real life is weird.
