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The whole capitalizing 'my' thing is a really weird vibe that comes off ironically narcissistic. Also who starts an article with a digit? Does Medium no longer have editors?
Honestly it kind of reminds me of a thread that popped up here a few weeks ago.
I am not sure Medium ever had editors. I think they got a good reputation because a lot of professional writers wrote blogs and articles on there, but AFAIK it has always been a blog site.
I use capitalised neopronouns because I'm transgender and nonbinary. I'm sure you didn't realise that, or else you wouldn't have complained about My pronouns. And yes, I am a person living with narcissistic personality disorder. You can psychoanalyse a potential connection between My gender and My disability if you wish, but please don't feel the need to share your opinion of My psychiatric history, as I've heard, and thought about, it all before. Chicken, egg, it doesn't matter to anyone else but Me, because it doesn't hurt anyone except perhaps Me. That is if people are not understanding of My gender identity.
Actually, I am Extremely Political. Here are My blog posts on the subject of the subject of politics. One admittedly quite aggressive on the subject:
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/there-is-no-such-thing-as-apolitical-and-claiming-otherwise-is-dangerous-72180711a310
https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/apolitical-queers-dont-deserve-to-opt-out-of-discourse-25bf467f9cc2
Also, I admit that I am constructing a very emotional narrative in the blog post, which is a transparent attempt at emotionally manipulating people into feeling empathy and patience for the big scary person living with NPD. I find that when I use language that permits people to think of these issues as a matter of cold, hard, factual accuracy, their ability to empathise with oppressed peoples who they've been told to hate is deeply impaired. Stories are the language of human memory. They're easy to listen to, easy to remember, easy to think about, and easy to feel about. The human mind is optimised for processing stories more readily than facts. So I often try to present facts as stories.
In any case, thank you for the idea to ask Ian directly. I just did so, and I plan to heavily rethink My post if he agrees.
He pinned a comment on the video that the word is wrong and promised to edit the video to remove or blur it! I took My article down.