DrowningInDreams posted:

(and then later had a voice in my head belonging to a dragon, who I interpret as my daemon)

DrowningInDreams posted:

It prevents my effective use of magick in many cases,

DrowningInDreams posted:

Chaos magick. Which I guess isn't an answer, technically, but mostly ritual magick is a lot harder for me. I can do sigils ok.

DrowningInDreams posted:

I made someone appear in a chatroom twice when they weren't normally in that chatroom. I dunno, I just now started using the mantra method because the written sigil method wasn't working for me. Otherwise my big achievement is that I guess I did 15% better on an exam than I would have done otherwise? I got an 85%. And everything else has just been the invocation and conversation with my daemon, who at first was just there violently against my will, and then took a thought to summon, and then half a cigarette, and then an entire cigarette plus gnosis, and then that plus blood, and eventually just sort of disappeared (I tried to use a full summoning ritual to bring her back but it didn't work), but started appearing to me again in dreams and occasionally when awake. She helps me to do everything when she's around; to get out of bed, eat, shower, change and wash clothes, do homework (actually do it as well as start it), she plants thoughts in my head that are fruitful and guides me through challenges. I actually don't even care about magick generally as long as I have her, which I don't always, which is really upsetting.

Oh! And people generally like my tarot readings, even though all I do is enter a half-assed trance and draw the cards and then literally use the little booklet to interpret.

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They found significant differences between male and female brains in four regions of white matter – and the female-to-male transsexual people had white matter in these regions that resembled a male brain (Journal of Psychiatric Research, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2010.05.006). “It’s the first time it has been shown that the brains of female-to-male transsexual people are masculinised,” Guillamon says.

In a separate study, the team used the same technique to compare white matter in 18 male-to-female transsexual people with that in 19 males and 19 females. Surprisingly, in each transsexual person’s brain the structure of the white matter in the four regions was halfway between that of the males and females (Journal of Psychiatric Research, DOI: 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2010.11.007). “Their brains are not completely masculinised and not completely feminised, but they still feel female,” says Guillamon.

BeanBandit posted: