I am very awkward, just no longer a problem the general-public would ever notice and much-less having to constantly keep myself in check now the hormones have … honestly, all but abandoned me, especially when needed and appropriate. Life is grand.

EDIT: I’ve said nothing here about lessons-learned. I can breathe without magically-and-constantly-offending strangers and acquainences today, but I was so used to the alternative for so long that I’ll never get used to “fitting-in”, nor do I want to. I’ve seen what’s broadly tolerated.