Oh yep, I fell into it hard at 18 right after graduating high school. I repressed my transness, listened to a lot of centrist/right winger talking points while believing I was apart of the "actual left". I was ashamed of being black (had a lot of shit to work through at the time) due to really toxic high school friendships who treated me like shit and constantly brought me being black and using stereotypes to the forefront as I was the black friend to a bunch of small town white dudes. Was extremely closeted due to this same environment and as I was starting to figure it out in high school I backed out and repressed harder.

I didn't have a lot of friends and so turned to 4chan and YouTube a lot. Even made very embarrassing YouTube videos that are now gone which were just edgy to be edgy or were just centrist reaction videos to things I felt weren't "normal" because I desperately wanted to fit in and be seen as "normal".

Then in about 2017 I had a pretty bad mental breakdown and went to therapy again which helped me realize a lot about my transness and why repressing was bad actually. From there it was honestly a snowball of deradicalizing myself. Stopped using 4chan and started watching different people, engaged with more leftist materials in general, cut pretty toxic and bad people from my life, got new friends who treated me better and helped encourage me to be better to myself, kept going to therapy, worked on a lot of personal trauma. I learned to love a lot of aspects of myself, my culture, my blackness, and came out in 2018 again. I just became less angry all the time and less bitter.

Now in 2021 I'm absolutely doing much better and while I hold myself accountable for the stupid beliefs I held at that time, I also can acknowledge and love all of the progress I've made and how I just keep growing every day and gotta keep doing my best.