• Hildegarde
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    3 days ago

    Dysphoria doesn’t feel like dysphoria if you’ve expierenced it your entire life. Instead it just feels normal.

    If you’re thinking about transitioning, don’t be deterred if you don’t feel actively distressed by your current apparent gender. Dysphoria can be crippling for some, and subtle for others.

    It wasn’t until I started HRT that I learned what it really felt like to feel fine. Only then did I realize how not fine I was before.

    • agegamon@beehaw.org
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      2 days ago

      Dysphoria doesn’t feel like dysphoria if you’ve expierenced it your entire life. Instead it just feels normal.

      Where do I buy this on a shirt.

      You have no idea how much I sympathize with this. It is so hard to convince myself that any of this is real some days, on top of all the other problems that forcing myself to realize “I have a body” in geneal causes