Although I'm not female, I am perceived as being so because of the way I look, which, if you don't know, you don't know—fairs. But even after informing people that I'm not what they think I am (those who enquirie on the matter or those I feel should know because they're a part of my life) on repeated occasions and in as many different ways as possible—as to try and help explain things to them in terms they will hopefully at least accept if not fully understand—this is still mostly the case. Sadly, yes, this also happens with some of the people I'm closest to...
So, coming at this with that (other person's) skewed perspective in mind: me being told by a straight cis male that I'm being "overly dramatic" in a situation we've reached simply because I am being forced to YET AGAIN EXPLAIN MYSELF makes my blood boil to a degree which only literal fucking lava could possibly understand.
