006. And all the people that you hate will love you just the same because you're beautiful

[drydrown]

Those of you that have received physical changes from Retrospec, how long did it take before they stopped seeming fundamentally wrong - do they ever, or am I just going to be handling being mentally inconvenienced every time I try to do anything that involves mirrors for the foreseeable future? I admit that I don't have much to complain about, in the scheme of things - especially since I'm not opposed to the results - but apparently I'm going to do so anyway, simply just because such is social media.

Then again, this particular identity crisis is brought to you by the realization that I haven't seen certain members of my family in two years, and if they were to see me now they wouldn't recognize me on immediate sight. So I think I have some right to be at least mildly distressed.

Comments

[frostythehitman]

whatever
retrospec gave me some high tech prosthetic so i can basically do everything the same as before any of this happened
it's way better than i ever thought i'd be able to do again
but it's still not exactly comfortable

[drydrown]

It doesn't sound it, no.

To be blunt, the memories have been harder on me than the physical changes, but I'd really prefer to not deal with those right now. It's easier to handle visible things, anyway.

[frostythehitman]

you got that right
at least there's real world solutions to losing an arm
and no one bats an eye at different hair colors
weird not-ours-but-still-ours memories though?
there's nothing and no one in the whole world who knows what to do about that
you just gotta stew in it instead

[drydrown]

More or less. And we're not even being done the basic courtesy of receiving the full picture at once.

[frostythehitman]

screw that too
the less of the picture i have the better