Call it thinking your way out by force
Call it forcing your way out. You did not gradually revise what you were taught; you broke with it, publicly enough that people noticed. Pluto in Aries in the 9th house puts raw force into belief, so your convictions have always arrived through a fight rather than through study.
The Aries half is chronology rather than character, since Pluto marks a whole span of birth years with the same tone and no individual inside it is described by that. Your birth time supplied the 9th house. It points the force at belief and at where you go, which is why the significant journeys of your life have been departures rather than holidays.
What people encounter when you hold a view
They encounter somebody who will state a position immediately and defend it at cost, and who does not treat a disagreement as unpleasant. To you it is a form of respect. To most people it is an attack, and about half of them stop offering their own view within ten minutes. Ask one genuine question before you make your case, since that single move keeps the other person present.
What you had to leave
There was a framework you were raised inside, religious or political or simply a firm account of how life works, and getting out of it required a break rather than a drift. Some of what you now believe was formed in opposition rather than chosen freely. That is worth knowing, since a position built to be the opposite of something is still shaped by it.
Convinced all the way down, until it snaps
While you believe something you cannot hear an objection to it, and the belief holds completely until the day it fails outright rather than eroding. Then you build the next one from nothing and are equally certain about that. Write down, at the point of adopting a position, what evidence would end it. The collapses have been expensive every time and none of them was ever anticipated.
A position held long enough to be tested
The rare thing available here is staying with one conviction past the exciting part, defending it in public for years, and letting it be worn down and corrected by contact. You have done that with almost nothing so far. Choose one and stay with it, since a belief that has never been maintained under boredom has not actually been tested.
You left in order to think
At some point you had to physically or socially remove yourself from where you came from in order to work out what you actually thought, and the removal was not gentle. It cost you relationships that were not really the problem. That was probably necessary and it is worth separating now: which of those distances is still doing something for you, and which is simply where you left it.
You work for the argument, not the institution
Your effort goes into a cause, a position or a change you believe in, and the employer is largely incidental to it. That makes you formidable while the alignment holds and unreliable when it goes. Check the alignment explicitly once a year, since you will not notice it slipping until you have already started sabotaging something.
Friends made in the middle of a disagreement
The people closest to you are frequently ones you first met in opposition, and the friendship formed because neither of you gave way and both stayed in the room. That is a genuinely good filter. It also means you have very few relationships with people who simply agree with you, which is a gap worth noticing rather than defending.
Agreement offered too fast reads as absence
When somebody concedes your point immediately you stop believing they were ever in the conversation, and warmth without friction registers to you as politeness rather than interest. That is a genuine feature of how you attach. Say it in the first month, since a partner who thinks you enjoy conflict will start managing you instead of meeting you, and the managing is what ends it.
You travel and go straight into it
Long journeys and unfamiliar places produce your best thinking and your worst physical decisions: no sleep, no food, straight into the day. The recovery is treated as somebody else's problem. Build the first day of any trip as a slow one, deliberately, since the enthusiasm on arrival is exactly what costs you the following week.