ive harped on this before, but from my first puberty in my teens to my second puberty in my forties i did not recognize myself in the mirror. every time i looked id steel myself for the shock of seeing what i looked like that day.
i couldnt have described to you then that i was supposed to look like. i probably would not have even been able to articulate that i looked *wrong*. i just thought that was how it was. i thought everybody winced at the mirror and muttered "oh jeez, really?!"