Reworking a few paragraphs a little

Author: ThisIsMissEm

apps/site/pages/en/blog/community/2025-06-28-Emelia-Smith.md

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 Fast-forward a year, and Node.js was announced by Ryan at JSConf.eu, once I watched the video, I immediately wanted to try to use it, it seemed so much better than the APIs I was used to working with in XULRunner for network i/o. One thing lead to another, and I began contributing to Node.js, back then, this was pretty easy as the code was still new and there were plenty of bugs to fix. I was there from pretty early on, I saw the birth of npm and package managers for JavaScript, and watched the project grow. It was an exciting time!
 
-My early contributions to Node.js were adding the [fs.readdirSync](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/05d6da6c4af25fc417902ad1bbae9198e58ff37a) method, [adding chmod support](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bcc032e43aac86d71739150009d8d75b5a9de26f), then implementing the [upgrade event](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f990f24ad36ddaff3c378531d15ea5c052467d41) that enabled implementing Websockets in Node.js, I kept contributing regularly and learned a lot from the early community. The largest change I made to Node.js was splitting up the [documentation into multiple files and pages](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e190c9616ed0b05eb66e1ae6681a8bb4a5f5f3e5), this lifted me up to be within the top ten contributors to the project due to the sheer number of lines of code changed.
+My early contributions to Node.js were adding the [`fs.readdirSync`](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/05d6da6c4af25fc417902ad1bbae9198e58ff37a) method, [adding `fs.chmod` support](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/bcc032e43aac86d71739150009d8d75b5a9de26f), then implementing the [`'upgrade'` event](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/f990f24ad36ddaff3c378531d15ea5c052467d41) that enabled implementing WebSockets in Node.js (I maintained one of the first node.js websocket servers). I kept contributing regularly and learned a lot from the early community.
 
-That led to me receiving a job offer just as I was finishing high school in 2010, which took me to San Francisco for a bit, where I finally met mikeal, isaacs, ry, rauchg, and polotek in person. These were people I'd previously only known from IRC chats, hence using their handles, or from the Node.js podcast I hosted in 2010 with Mikeal Rogers (it was called The Noded, I have no idea if it's still online somewhere).
+The largest change I made to Node.js was splitting up the [documentation into multiple files and pages](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/e190c9616ed0b05eb66e1ae6681a8bb4a5f5f3e5), prior to this change all the documentation was on a single page only. This change lifted me up to be within the top ten contributors to the project due to the sheer number of lines of code changed. Following on from that I worked a fair bit on documentation tooling.
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+It wasn't until I was in my mid-20s that I realised I was queer. I remember being on a bus to the office, and pondering the question "are men's and women's clothes really that different?", it was an odd question for someone who at the time still considered themselves straight and cisgender, but it was something I explored mentally before concluding that "no, they're all just clothes". That moment was really just me trying to give myself permission to try dressing differently, telling myself it wasn't taboo to try something different. Around the same time, I was having issues where I did not recognize myself in the mirror, which lead me to realising that I wasn't the cisgender guy I thought I was. On New Year's Eve of 2014/2015, I came out as genderqueer, and began experimenting with gender presentation.
 
 I didn't realise I was queer until much later in life, after I'd moved to London. I was 24 going on 25, and had been going through some things. I started with just the question of "are men's and women's clothes really that different?", it was an odd question for someone who at the time still considered themselves straight and cisgender, but it was something I explored on my own and it was really just me trying to give myself permission to try dressing differently. I the time, I did not recognize myself in the mirror, and I needed to try something. I came out as genderqueer on New Years Eve of 2014/2015.