Bored and feeling too nauseous to do much atm while recovering from surgery. So i wanted to hear about some of your experiences. I think mine was quite uncommon because i never identified my personal discomfort as dysphoria and rather found out through lying about my identity online (for anonymity purposes) that being seen and addressed as male felt incredibly euphoric and just right. Through that the discomfort in my day to day life becoming more apparent till i eventually had to consider the possibility of being trans and everything else kinda started from there. I was 15-16 during that time. The dysphoria i felt in younger years for me back then was just something i assumed is normal if youre a teenage girl

  • kivihiili@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    for me it just kinda gradually happened.

    i never thought too much about my gender identity, honestly. i just did what i thought made be look nicest in the mirror once i realized i have to take care of myself instead of relying on mother.

    at some point i thought of, “what would i look like if i was a girl”, then decided that the concept of being outright female actually kinda sounded nice, and then just kinda went with that. when i told others, pretty much none of them were surprised hehe (i live in a VERY trans-/queer-positive area).

    there was never really a “moment” for me, i didn’t ever change super suddenly. i still love motor racing, i still lift weights, i still love lots of other traditionally “masculine” stuff, i just happen to also now be girl. :)

    the main thing that pushed me was puberty. when i was a young boy, i looked AWESOME, and i still maintain that to this day. however, when i started going through puberty, i think it was how not good i looked that pushed me to start caring about my appearance, which eventually led to me just throwing in the towel and becoming a girl, cause like there was NO way i could ever look good as a guy with my body.

    interestingly (or realistically, quite unremarkably), i only felt any bit of dysphoria quite a bit after even figured out i enjoy being female. it is what pushed me to start HRT.