>>40189307I am sane enough to be aware of how much worse the alternative is, and I also don't think trans people are inherently cool simply for being trans. Trans people are people like everybody else. While heavily influenced by it, their identity isn't defined solely by them being trans.
All I know is that I am more often than not distressed about not being distressed in a dysphoric way. I think it's more likely that I am simply mentally ill than a deeply repressed trans person though
>>40189719I am quite certain I exist (Descartes has my back on this), and I am not baiting.
I've lurked long enough to know just how excruciating and kafkaesque being trans really is. No sane and empathetic person would ever wish that for themselves and for any other person. Yet, I am struggling daily with the fact that I don't experience the same distress and I am too dumb to actually understand why. Best reason I can think of is that it would give me a substantial reason to transition because thinking of living my whole life as a man genuinely only fills me with dread. This dread feels misplaced to me though
>>40191903In what way is being distressed over not being dysphoric normal tranny dysphoria? I genuinely feel like it's more likely that this is much more likely a sign of completely unrelated mental health issues and not actually any gender incongruity (I'm certain I don't have ocd).
If I were trans, I simply would be distressed about my male characteristics. That is not the case for me. I am just hyper aware of them, basically at all times. It's like I have an incessant voice in my head screaming at me about just how much of a man I actually am.
I also don't think it's normal to first develop such feelings in one's 20s while having genuinely no trans thoughts during one's childhood and puberty. The thing that started it all was me learning that transitioning is an option to begin with. I knew trans people existed, just never connected the dots.
It's all really inane