Dysphoria [Species], mild
I'm colored by the fact that I never imagined I'd say the words "species dysphoria" and have folks go "yeah same". I felt this stuff when I was pre-teen… even as far back as like… 10? Back then I knew enough to know I shouldn't tell folks, and I felt fundamentally broken. I kept beating myself up for entertaining the belief that I wasn't human, but somehow the idea was rooted deep in there.
Dysphoria [Species], mild
@Oneironott ooooh yeah. when I was a kid and people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I'd often answer "a cat." they'd laugh. I wasn't joking. although the thought I didn't say was, "anything but a human..."
in a way, the species dysphoria makes my gender dysphoria easier to deal with; I know I'll never get the right body in this lifetime, so why worry about details like gender presentation? :P
Dysphoria [Species], mild
@green my answer to that for me was: to feel some degree of autonomy over this form. Mixed with the fact that my gender dysphoria was also very much a thing and tending to that was necessary for me.
