Is there any term that would describe not actually being dysphoric, but also having a persistent wistfulness at the thought of being the other sex?Like, completely lacking any physical or social dysphoria, and not even wanting to be the opposite sex, but still feeling deeply melancholic, and sometimes even torn up inside, that one won't ever experience what it all would've been like, if one were born as the opposite sex.
>>42371483dysphoria
>>42371483Fear of missing out
>>42371483This picture is making me suicidal
>>42371483yeah i don't really think about my body but i think it would be so much better to be a girlidk if it's legitimate dysphoria. i don't think anything's stopping you from just trooning out anyway. maybe you'll feel happier on hormones.
>>42371573that's dysphoria. you feel dysphoric about not being dysphoric enough
>>42371516I believe there's a very clear cut difference between actual dysphoria, and just some wistfulness, which is why I wondered whether there's a term for it. After all, you wouldn't call someone who's completely comfortable being their birth sex dysphoric.>>42371552That's exactly what it feels like. It's especially frustrating how arbitrary and pointless it actually is to feel fomo over this
>>42371483>"i wonder what it would be like to be a bird and just fly away">>"YOU'RE ACTUALLY A BIRD TRAPPED IN A MAN'S BODY"
>>42371626do i really though? dysphoria is like a crippling depression at your masculine features. i just think it would be really fun to be a girl. and i don't even get the urge all the time.
>>42371483this idea has become more popular here in recent years. Most anons just call it mild dysphoria, fakerepping / faketrans, or pseudo-dysphoria. There's 0 research for any of this so all the information comes from the occasional anon sharing their stories.
>>42371573Personally I don't even think that it would be any better to be a girl. I'm wholly ambivalent to it, but I still get stuck on the thought of what could've been
>>42371770yeah i'm constantly worried that i'll get old and realise i should have trooned. but i don't really care about my body. i just sort of exist inside it and don't think about it.
Stop repping dysphoria is dysphoria. Stop clinging to outside worlds religious worldviews how someone should be! You only live once
>>42371483which one am i
>>42371483I think it's just a mark of intelligence to wonder about reality as a different thing than what you are.This could be dysphoria but if you're only really stuck at the thought experiment phase, just stay there. You can't become female anyway.If you want to live as something that could be confused as female or like what estrogen supplementation would be like, then try that route. If not, don't.
>>42371797but it's not religion that's the issue. it's whether or not it's worth it.
>>42371745>dysphoria is like a crippling depression at your masculine featuresnot necessarily, this is also highly exaggerated by subjects historically due to gatekeeping practices.
>>42372152Almost all the trans women I've met said that they wanted to kill themselves because they looked like a man
>>42372152even so i don't really care about my body. i just sort of ignore it and occasionally think "if i did troon out my body is too masculine to see any effects."
>>42371867>I think it's just a mark of intelligence to wonder about reality as a different thing than what you are. I wouldn't call it particularly intelligent of me to waste my time being in a melancholic stupor over what never was and never will be
>>42372173sure, but how that is expressed or even perceived by the subject itself is a modified by other psychological traits. what op is describing is depression related to gender and sexual characteristics i.e. dysphoria.>>42372217this is disassociation + bargaining and a very, very common response to dysphoria.
>>42372305is it though? like, i don't think the average man really thinks about his body much. i think he's just ambivalent. women care about their own appearance.i just think i'm heterosexual and have confused my attraction to women with wanting to be one.
>>42371832manhand
>>42372380>i don't think the average man really thinks about his body much. i think he's just ambivalentuh, yeah they do.>i just think i'm heterosexual and have confused my attraction to women with wanting to be one.cis people don't do this, actually.
>>42371483that is literally gender dysphoriatake your HRT, retard
>>42372486Have you missed the part where I explicitly mentioned that I feel no physical nor social dysphoria and I don't even actually want to be a woman. I'm fine with being a man, and actually never had any issues with it, until the thought of what might've been has seeped into my mind
>>42372552>a persistent wistfulness at the thought of being the other sexyou're dumb so never mind, you deserve this lmao
>>42372445killing myself
>>42372615It just feels completely disingenuous to stretch the definition of dysphoria in order to fit in something so trivial
>>42372380Reminds of a youtuber who said cis people are only ever comfortable in their bodies. That’s not true at all.
>>42372476but what is there to think about? men don't wear makeup or try and look especially masculine. they just exist. it's not a man's job to look good. i doubt many men are looking at themselves and saying "holy shit i look hot.">cis people don't do this, actuallyokay i think any man waking up in the body of a hot woman would be happy. it's like, even better than waking up in the bed of a hot woman.plus what if i've just brainwashed myself into confusing attraction and dysphoria through too much time online.
>>42371832looks more like the right to me. the nails definitely add to it and make it look more feminine.
>>42371832definitely right
>>42372835why would you not have a male hand?lol
>>42371483these hands are beautiful
