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
Oh yeah, that’s not super rare. On the transfem side there’s the denial beard phenomenon. And for y’all guys it’s somewhat common to have had a period of heavy femininity before acceptance. Basically doing the gender roles really hard because that’s what you’re supposed to (and maybe then you’ll actually want it if you do it right)