Well, as the title says, I Am curious what Dysphoria feels like for you? When/how did you realise, that certain feelings are in reality Dysphoria?

Edit: Damn, some of you really have lived through a lot. I Am very happy that I can’t really relate to quite some of the comments here, because that sounds horrible.

  • flamingos-cant@feddit.ukEnglish
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    3 days ago

    After I started puberty, I started to feel very dissociated from my body. I mostly think of myself as a floating set of eyes and hands, kind of like a VR game. Remembering I occupy a body and specially this body is always quite disconcerting. It was only when I read other trans people describe this experience, and point out how it wasn’t normal, that I was able to make the connection to dysphoria.

    • scintilla@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 days ago

      have you ever done the thing where you just look at your hands and just move them to watch the muscles move?

    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I remember being a teenager feeling desperate to not be in my body any more. I had no idea it was gender dysphoria, I just knew my body felt wrong. At the time I just wished I could extract my brain from my body and interact with the world through a computer interface instead - I think it was too painful to consider my desires to be a woman, those thoughts weren’t on a conscious level.