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Sign up. Sign in. Follow publication. Observing the digital age through the eyes of those who created it. I grew up white, male, queer, depressed, closeted, anxious, affected by childhood sexual trauma, and with physical and emotional scars changing my face — subtle to some, obvious to myself and others. While growing up, I struggled with a sense of duality.

I had an urge to be a shadow, hidden and silent, facing opposite the desire to be the brightest, most charming individual in any room. I was always going to live somewhere in between, oscillating from end to end, rarely stopping near the truest center. When I came out at the age of 20 and experienced the freedom of digital connection, I took it as an opportunity to highlight whatever side I wanted.

Growing up, I was always self-conscious of my physical appearance. I took every photo with my head turned slightly to the right, exposing the side I believed to represent the truest version of me.

I even wore my hat backwards to attract a more masculine man. This carried over into my first online profiles for Gay. I met most gay men online — some became friends, one became a loving partner, and many more were merely anonymous men who were disappointed with the real version of me. I was too heavy, too femme, and countless other characteristics that did not match their internalized issues and external expression of masculinity.

Often, like myself, they presented different versions of themselves online or I allowed my internal narrative to convince me that they were who I wanted them to be. In my mid-twenties I moved to another province for school in another attempt to redefine who I wanted to be. On my first day of classes, my brother was attacked by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan. He was half way through his tour when a man on a donkey holding an improvised explosive device in a pressure cooker prematurely detonated the device, almost killing my brother.

He survived, but the incident exposed cracks in our family — parts patched over from years of living with relative privilege and security. The cracks hid the darker parts of our identities. My mother fell into a depression and my brother found himself with PTSD. I was now in a new and familiar province, my family was from the same place, but I felt like an unfamiliar person.

To cope, I self-medicated with alcohol and drugs. I began meeting men in ways I had only flirted with before. I went from half-truths on online profiles, to anonymous profiles that exposed the full truth about my body and the primal situations I wanted to engage in. I posted them on hookup sites and online community forums.

I was drunk and almost always high, as alcohol, cocaine, and amphetamines acted as the necessary enabler of the darkest version of myself. The first time I wore a blindfold for a stranger was over Thanksgiving holiday.

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My roommates were gone for the holiday, and I was home alone and drunk. I met him on Grindr a relatively new gay dating app at the time and he was close by and able to come to me. He wanted me to wear a blindfold and wait for him alone in my apartment.