I'm in genuine despair over the fact that I'm likely not trans. My dysphoria is likely fake. I lack childhood signs. Imagining myself as a woman doesn't make me as happy as I'd like it to.This probably is a maladaptive cope I adopted, because living as a man is genuine ropefuel, and I thought I could escape my immutable self
>>40978998You're clever enough to understand that wearing a dress, chopping your balls off and calling yourself Lilith or Alice won't make you a woman. Godspeed
>>40979026It's not the realization that iwnbaw which causes me despair, but the realization that I always was and will be a man. I genuinely don't know how to cope with this and the fact that I never should transition
>>40979202iwnbaw = i will always be a mansame shit brah. big pharma might have something for you in a couple years, dont rope or destroy yourself with hormones
>>40979238>dont ropeI'm not actively suicidal because I'm a man, so that's another proof I'm not actually trans.I do wish I wouldn't ever wake up again every night though, but that's unrelated and how it's always been
>>40979202yeah thats a good way to put itits like i know theres nothing in me outside of a fetish that really wants to be a woman, i just dont want to be myself, id do anything to not be me. and transitioning changes your appearance dramatically, so i hope that it will make me look less alien to myself, but then all i see is the same thing and i know that i was stupid to think i could escape it
>>40978998there's no such thing as fake dysphoria. it's real if you feel it. the trans people who talk about fake dysphoria and accuse other trans people of being "faketrans" are just insecure pickmes. this is me being deadass, the word of the lordt. harken or dissipate
>>40979349heres what real dysphoria is:>feels bad because what you see isnt a woman>hates their body because it doenst have feminine traitswhat fake dysphoria is like:>feels bad because the mirror looks like an alien/stranger/monster>hates their body because it feels ugly/deformed/alien/strangeactual dysphoria is focused on gender, for me the gender part is secondary to the just not feeling human in general
>>40979395nona... that's not "fake dysphoria"... that's dysmorphia. you can be dysphoric and dysmorphic at the same time
>>40979349>there's no such thing as fake dysphoria. it's real if you feel it.I'm saying it's fake because I'm probably not even dysphoric to begin with. I can look at my body and face in the mirror just fine, but another part of me incessantly reminds me that I look like a man and have little to no passing potential.The fact that there is no acute distress from the fact that I'm a man is most likely enough proof that I lack dysphoria. It is very distressing to be reminded that I probably like being a man deep down though
>>40979433>It is very distressing to be reminded that I probably like being a man deep down thougheven the idea of wanting to be a man makes you dysphoric. just because because your dysphoria doesn't apply equally to all areas of your body, doesn't mean you don't have it
>>40979461I feel like I should want to be a man, and that I'd be really good at being one. At the same time I'm just repulsed by the idea of actually living my life like that.I don't see how trooning could help here though, since I have no guarantee I won't develop any reverse dysphoria
>>40979313That still counts as being suicidal.
>>40979589Yeah, yeah, I know, but it's me being passively suicidal for no reason. Not actively suicidal because I'm a man. That was the distinction I tried to establish, although having done so poorly
>>40979238This is terrible advice, if you can even call it that. Medical science does not have a cure for dysphoria in the works and never will
Yeah i think im trooning because i failed to attract women since i feel ugly/boring
i mean you can always be a hrt femboyor a he/him tranny idk
>>40979782>just be a man with boobs browhat kind of advice is this. the idea is to stop feeling like a freak
>>40978998Please just try HRT. Some brains are better on different hormones rather than others. If you don't like it, you can stop. Wondering if your "soul is transgender" is not going to help, because there really is no such thing. Take care. If you really don't feel like you can continue living like this, you should absolutely try HRT even if it's just "for the hell of it".
>>40978998I don't know why you think that's bad, my entire life has been hell, specially during childhood when I felt so vulnerable in my own house, being unable to make any kind of decision and just letting dread consume me wasn't nice at all.Considering yourself lucky.
>>40981580>considering*considerStupid brain
>>40978998i used to be like you OP. it helped to accept that im not actually gender dysphoric and i just take estrogen for cosmetic purposes, that i might have some similar symptoms to gender dysphoria but im definitely not a woman in a mans body. that and to kill my sex drive.
>>40981816>that and to kill my sex drive.this too, every time i goon i want to fuckin die
>>40981553I have tried hrt, and I didn't feel any different on it unfortunately.
>>40981580>I don't know why you think that's badI don't think it should be bad, but that doesn't change the way I feel about it. Didn't mean to understate the pain of actually dysphoric trans people at all.
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>>40978998you have depression and didget tested idiot
>>40978998Nona you can do and be whatever the fuck you want. You dont have to justify it to anyone or anything.
>>40983785I definitely don't have DID, and my depression doesn't cause me to feel this way. The dread I feel by being cis feels nothing like depression.
>>40983793Only case where justification is needed is to get over medical gatekeeping. Otherwise I couldn't care less about that. It's just that I feel like I can't be anything else but what I have no desire to be
>>40983793not OP butNoGenuine gd is terror and hell on earthHOW can I ever call myself anything but a male man on hrt if I dont even have a modicum of that?How can I assume my gender when I dont feel like a ral trans person feels? Especially since all these feelings feel recent relatively to my life and not ingrained since childhood?Isnt that just...MEF or TOCD or some other social and mental malfunction and not genuine?I just want to be real, and I HATE that I cant be a rela trans womanI will always be a man. And yet I cant just push back and accept and live with it noIm stubborn and decided trooning out is my hill to die on. But it is not my hill and I am not dying like actually.
>>40983811I'm random mtf passing through.Whatever, idgaf, everything with regards to trans stuff can't get any worse, you already seem pretty affected by it, you could just call what you experience dysphoria and get on with things, why shouldn't you live a little selfishly if this is what you truly want?You're really just going to be hurting yourself.You have my permission to think of yourself as trans if it helps idk idc.
>>40983938Why are your words not enough?Maybe deep down I know im just a fakeApologies for wasting your time and good luck
>>40983938nta, but you can't really call it "hurting yourself" if this way of living is preferable to living a cis life.Also, the intense shame the above poster portrays is enough of a guarantee that they won't be an optics nuke
>>40983973the shame doesn't absolve me of my mistakes nor does it make me betterI still act in accordance to my initial programmingI am just a fuckBut writing or saying wont change itIts just who i am
>>40983966get on an ssri
>>40979202You sound trans to be honest
>>40983807Then go make up your mind. Experiment.>>40983811You dont have to justify your feelibgs to ANYTHING, especially not some made concept you dreamed up.But sure, keep torturing yourself and live in misery. No one ultimately gives a fuck either way - for better or worse.
>>40984011You're much more fembrained than you might believe
>>40979238big pharma has something for you now, and those are cross sex hormones. You are clearly repressing hard and acting like that is the only alternative
>>40984033>Then go make up your mind. Experiment.Experimenting only made me more miserable about being my birth sex, without giving me any clarity if I'd prefer to be something else
>>40984033But people DO carewhen you meet up with people and they ignore you and laugh at you behind your backwhen they stop inviting you after seeing you oncewhen they patronize youwhen they never include you into anythingDESPITE what you say people do care about how authentic you seemand the people will go on and on about their real selves while you cant even remember what you were like when 16but you know what you wereyou know why you "repressed"because its all fuck ass porn addictions and fake idealism. And they know because your story is fakeAt every corner it is fake and they can tellI am fake and I cant do anything about it
>>40984037I am 100% masculineSo much so that others catch up on it and hate you for it and exclude you cause they see you as a cis who is just corssdressing or some shit(i never in my life did that just saying, i manmode 100% of the time, there is nothing on my or inside me or outside that isnt fit for my role as a low working class male)
>>40984065Nona you are having a meltie, its ok but realize you cant think clearly rn. Try to get comfy and distract yourself until you feel better (dont do drugs or drinks tho). Be safe.
>>40984065It's not porn addiction, you were born this way silly.
>>40984100I was notI was a regular boyMy whole life I was normal until internet gaming and porn addiction kicked in and my adult brain found out about this board and I am stuck ever since, looping the same day endlesslydont suggest hRT already tried redone redid and still doing on and offNo mentla changes just got fatter, at least my porn addiction is gone thanks to dead balls and dick>>40984097I always have a meltie i guess :)Nobody cares I get it
>>40984111>My whole life I was normalThat's not entirely 100% true and you know it
>>40984111Please don't get on and off hrt. Progress is cumulative and it's really not worth needlessly messing with your endocrine system. You know you don't want to have T in your system, so just keep taking hrt
>>40984120BASEDnow tell me what i dont know apparentlyRight right
>>40984133this feels like the most sick shit i have ever been toldNOYeah im losing itOk why would you enable this?why?
>>40984142It's insane how much you self sabotage. You could've transitioned normally and lived the life you desire, but your internalized transphobia is ruining it all for you. Please look into going to therapy because of this, or if you don't trust therapy, do shrooms. You will realize that porn plays no role in this
omg please get on something like lexapro, you're not thinking even remotely clearly. then go to therapy and try sorting things out.
>>40984158When I was 16 I looked up gender porn and it was downhill from there. Wdym porn plays no role in this? I’m not the genuinely girly girl trannies are irl who get raped my T until 18 cause if parentsI’m just a loser who got obsessed with trooning as part of and follow up to my porn habits. Like you know those fake detroon trender troons? Im almost like them only I’m self aware enough to know it was my choice. Like legit so similar>no trans thoughts as an adolescent>obsessed with them after a certain point>fuel it through mef agp porn>goon and coom>troon>>40984181Therapy does nothing
>>40984198Ocd
>>40984198How do you feel about being a man now though? Completely ignore the whole porn and trans thing. How do you feel at the thought of living the rest of your life as a man?
>>40984215I don’t care
>>40984253Why are you lying? The mere fact that you "don't care" is already proof you don't want to be a man. If you were one, you would also want to be one
>>40984258Why would I lie?I don’t care about it at all
>>40984272>Why would I lie?I was calling it a lie, because it's fundamentally impossible to not care. Saying you don't care about being a man is just proof you are coping with being something you don't want to be.
>>40984287I already am it what does it matter?
>>40984303>what does it matter?You know the answer to that, yet you are denying it.
>>40984316Msybe I’m just a man and that’s ok and that’s the part i need to accept the in meIf I was t one I wouldnt be one and I would t need evidence to contradict itId know.
>>40984350No man needs to make an effort to accept they're a man. They just are. ywnbam
>>40984353I’m a mentally I’ll man that much is obviousNo woman would need effort either yet here we are
>>40984373It hurts to see you be so hard on yourself
>>40984453If I were an actual woman none of this would be neededI would have actual trans issues like being unable to be alive while “boymoding” or “manmoding” and wanting to come out. Or having actual dysphoric episodes that leave you stranded alone in a roomOr just being able to logically compare yourself to other trans people and find reasonable similarities and common ground and actual have someone tell you>yes I feel that tooWithout me feeling like I lied yo them to gain that reactionBut none of that happensWhat’s so harsh about my words anywayI’m just looking for the truth t endless reflection and self reflection.And since it’s not easy then it is also impossible to say that it is true. If I was female it would have been easy for me this realm and the difficulty would be elsewhere external or surface level
>>40978998This is real asf, i have no idea why i even developed this fake dysphoria cuz i was doing great as a man. Maybe i just wanted attention or to give my life something more interesting idk
>>40984606Developing "fake" dysphoria is probably the worst thing to do simply because you want more attention or to make your life more interesting. It genuinely makes no sense at all.What does your fake dysphoria even look like?
>>40984606opposite for me, i was doing terribly as a person in general, maybe i was just so bored and traumatized i was like maybe taking hrt will turn me into a better person, maybe thats the issue and not just that im an ugly boring loser who isnt good at anything and is likeable to nobody. that would be too painful to accept and deal with because there isnt really a solution. taking hrt is the path of least resistance, i just take the pills and do nothing and trick myself into thinking im being improved when really im just being made more inhuman, more divorced from reality and other people who are getting on with their lives normally