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
honestly? it was always there while growing up. i had always felt feminine my entire life and i never felt comfortable growing up as male. never felt okay doing the usual ‘male’ stuff or even engaging with it. hated how i looked and everything.
i finally learned about how i was trans as i got older but i was always i guess…afraid? of being judged for it so i kinda put it aside, but my real ‘oh shit’ and acceptance moment was when i played animal crossing for the first time (like many i had hopped on the new horizons bandwagon lmao) and trying on the feminine clothing gave me SUCH a wave of euphoria that i had never really felt before.