trans discourse, dysphoria
Re: https://witches.town/users/SoniEx2/updates/469354
I don't feel like my parts are wrong "because folks insists they are" and the implications there is one of the most disgusting takes I've heard in a while. It's absolutely insulting to hear someone insist that all of the pain I'VE felt would just go away if people "stopped telling me that my body is wrong".
trans discourse, dysphoria
This is a prime example of like
hey,
if this is your lived experience and that's how you feel about yourself that's like… fine. But don't start assuming that this is how everyone experiences things, else you say insultingly generalized things based on your own biased experience that makes me snarly as fuck.
trans discourse, dysphoria
it's one thing to go "hey this is how my dysphoria works and this is how I've conceptualized it" and another to go "dysphoria is this definition and I am now implying that folks who feel dysphoria must be feeling it for these reasons [only], and folks who fall outside this definition are wrong."
Just ugh
trans discourse, dysphoria
@Oneironott I admit, I read their take and I think I get what they're saying, but it's a far cry from "this is my mental model" to "this is a universal maxim."
trans discourse, dysphoria
@literorrery that ambiguity, then, is a problem. I guess it depends if you take that post inherently as this as being their personal, subjective view or not. Generally, when someone is talking about what "dysphoria is", over what it is "to them" tends to strike me as them thinking about more than just their own personal experience
trans discourse, dysphoria
@Oneironott I agree. I've been bad about this conversational glitch in the past, enough so that @indi has legit called me on it. More than once, embarrassingly. I tend to assume all communication is about personal perspectives unless framed as scientific data, but I'm also exceedingly way outside the norm and most people don't seem to respond that way. Their framing, if not personal, is extremely hurtful to anyone experiencing traumatic dysphoria.
