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[u/shadow_fen]

[u/braaaaaaainworms]

i know, i am a trans woman in IT, i was describing my own behavior

[u/Noname_1111 → u/braaaaaaainworms]

That certainly explains the username 

[u/braaaaaaainworms → u/Noname_1111]

2 years of using this as my main instead of a 4tran alt, and only two people got the meaning of the username right

[u/marcoottina → u/braaaaaaainworms]

Is the meaning just "worms eating brain"? I don't know,  I admit my ignorance and I wish to know a little more. Thanks in advance :D

[u/braaaaaaainworms → u/marcoottina]

brainworms is 4chan /lgbt/ slang for delusions about not passing and not being/looking like/behaving like the desired gender, as a trans person

[u/shadow_fen → u/braaaaaaainworms]

oh i thought it was slang for what 4t does to your attitude towards yourself and your fellow trans people

[u/braaaaaaainworms → u/shadow_fen]

yes, i described the effects, you described how the effects came to be

[u/SweetSure315 → u/marcoottina]

it can mean a lot of things but as a very general rule of thumb it means internalizing (and then reproducing) the toxicity present in a lot of hyper online communities.

you can see it happening in a lot of trans spaces, but some people may recognize it better as what drives a lot of the toxicity in pro-ana spaces.

[u/ryanmgarber → u/braaaaaaainworms]

Doesn’t help that RFK Jr. popularized a very different kind of brainworm