@lulu it is, right? exactly what's on it varies but the path so often seems to be the same. it was like the experience of coming out just confirmed what I've always sensed, that to virtually everyone else I am an unusually foreign "other". they always acted like it, but it's so much more obvious now.
(on the other hand, I think people no longer read my social carefulness as "being reserved and wanting to be left alone", but more accurately as a defensive strategy.)