> As I understand it her real identity was never actually part of the conversation, so I don't understand what stood in the way of simply getting off twitter an

> As I understand it her real identity was never actually part of the conversation, so I don't understand what stood in the way of simply getting off twitter and leaving the pseudonym behind. She couldn't stop herself, which I can relate to after she'd poured her heart and soul into the story. >> “I sought out and read everything written about the story. I couldn’t stop,” Fall says. “It was like that old nightmare-fantasy. What if someone gave you a ledger of everything anyone’s ever said about you, anywhere? Who wouldn’t read it? I would read it; I would go straight to the worst things.” And then there's the whole gender identity thing making it even harder: >> One criticism above all got to her: that Fall must be a cis man, because no woman would ever write in the way she did. And because this criticism was so often leveled by cis women, Fall felt her gender dysphoria (the gap between her gender and her gender assigned at birth) increasing.