I’ve hatched twice now and it’s like this for me too: it’s been quite important for me to try things out and feel how they feel rather than expecting to figure out my life and self “hands-off” and then implement that once done. Sometimes parts of a presentation or of reactions to it aren’t clear until they’re felt and one may not necessarily know whether those parts will be pleasant or problems until then. That is, maybe you really don’t know how it’ll feel until you just jump in and try, give yourself some time to break up some things holding you back, and process the whole reality of it all at once.

Big note: it’s okay to be wrong. A lot of people act like it isn’t, like everyone’s supposed to full-on know without ever thinking about it or having to learn anything, but they’re dead wrong and they’re probably lying to themselves just to keep from having to consider that maybe identity isn’t as simple and easy as they want it to be, or want to pretend that it is.