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
To be honest it was probably sheer luck, since I’m AFAB act and present feminine people usually just assume I’m a woman. Though I never felt like a woman and didn’t feel like a man either. I feel like something else. I guess when I learned that NonBinary is a thing and that it’s under the trans umbrella that’s when I figured it out. If no one had ever told me about NonBinary I would’ve continued thinking that the thoughts of not wanting to be referred to as a girl was me just being weird and dumb for no reason.