when people started perceiving me as a woman, suddenly i had a different experience in the world.
in general, my experience is that people view me as less competent. this means that every day i am questioning myself and my abilities more.
when i would experience anxiety, it was no longer so easy to dispel it. instead of seeing how the world treated me and thinking that my anxiety was wrong, my anxiety would essentially say "what if the misogyny is right?"