Online confusion with another woman triggered an identity crisis.

Evidence

That, and going online to try to find some simulation of the friendships and communities I missed, and finding, instead, The Confusion: a torrent of people discussing me and what I’d said and what I’d done—only it wasn’t me. It was her. Which raised an alarming question: Who, then, was I? — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 23

Categorization

• QUESTION: How does Klein convert this doubled identity into an analytic instrument rather than just memoir material? The method question the reader is tracking.
• DEEPTHINKING: The doubling device — being mistaken for another woman and asking ‘who, then, was I?’ — is the hinge that converts a personal identity crisis into a lens on how ideological opposites mirror each other.
• XREF: connects to: Exclusion from adult female secrets provokes hysterical demands to be treated as a woman — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 766