not negative but kind of a lot to take in
Thinking about “Skill Regression”, a concept/theory that as one unlearns a behavior, or heals from a trauma, or stops masking or learns something about oneself that has any significant impact on their life, the skills that, whether they like it or not, their brains associate with that trauma/mask/behavior, become more difficult as the correlating trauma/mask/behavior is unlearned, or that shift in their life unravels.As a creature that has spent so much of its life masking, coping, and basically dealing with all of these aforementioned things recently, learning that its difficulty doing almost anything isnt the result of it “getting dumber” or lacking of effort is also relieving.
One thing that Soyl has gotten really bad at doing now that it is no longer trying to mask is keeping up with people. It feels a lot harder to even pay attention to so many things and people and creatures all at once.