How do you perceive yourself at the end of it all isn't that most important or is there a greater struggle that I don't connect with because I simply cannot I've never transitioned? I think it's more to do with preconceived notions of how we're supposed to act in our gender roles

It's an interesting point but I don't take away more from the article itself then and idea of how personality might work for different people I don't see that being a consistent pattern across any variation of humanity especially what makes us us.

I was raised as a doll not a person I still found a way to be a person. I was raised to be an extension of another human being like a piece of Adam's Rib from my mother and still I'm a completely independent thinker. We are not always simple often paradoxical.

Do you mean in terms of being an extension of a parent that's an important conversation I think it relates to narcissists quite frequently but it is a distortion of Parental responsibility to only see your child as extension of self and it gives rise to abuse sometimes