Is It Strange to Feel Dysphoric After Coming Back from an Isekai?! - Oneshot

[Nami]

let's assume this is not a troll comment.

Why, though? That's more than they deserve and it validates them.

 

[Zblurth]

Why, though? That's more than they deserve and it validates them.

multiple reason, I suck at word and making a point so I can imagine other people being like that,
I case it is not a troll, they get to learn something.
In case it is, other people reading the response might learn something and well reading an angry message make a message less clear.
And last I do feel the need to talk about it when I can but I also do not want to feel angry myself so typing a more calm message is a lot easier on me than raging against the machine, I clearly do not always achieve the calm part lol but I am working on it

 

[Sleepyb33]

Oh, this one, I remember reading this years and years back and being super confused on how someone never felt gender dysphoria their entire life and then suddenly felt it after like, some time in an isekai. And looking at it now, it might not even be real so it feels more and more strange to me because I can't comprehend how someone would be comfortable for so long and then suddenly uncomfortable.

Well whatever, I don't have gender dysphoria so maybe this is normal for people that do.

I'm a trans woman, and I didn't even realize that what I was experiencing was gender dysphoria until I experienced gender euphoria for the first time.

 

[ninjakai03]

PEAK IS BACK

 

[maxur]

Oh, this one, I remember reading this years and years back and being super confused on how someone never felt gender dysphoria their entire life and then suddenly felt it after like, some time in an isekai. And looking at it now, it might not even be real so it feels more and more strange to me because I can't comprehend how someone would be comfortable for so long and then suddenly uncomfortable.

Well whatever, I don't have gender dysphoria so maybe this is normal for people that do.

It varies between people, but think of it as someone that grew up in poverty, or in a bad relationship, both are metaphors that work

They are "ok", they can live with it, it's their normal state, they have been living all their life in that way so they are used to it

But then they have money, and they can eat any food they want, they can wear any clothes they want, they can buy all the stuff they want, they dealed with being poor, they were used to it, they had a normal life like that, but now they know what being rich is like, and going back to that life now would be insufferable, because you now know how much better it could be

Or they find out that relationships are supposed to be both ways, they find out that other couples actually enjoy being together, and they start to notice the way their partner mistreats them, and suddenly things that were fine, are not, because now you know they aren't normal

Yes, in both cases they were fine, they could deal with it, you could live a whole life like that without a problem, you might not even SEE them as problems, but the second you experience a better life? Dealing with the previous one just becomes even worse

 

[TrapTrash1678]

Oh, this one, I remember reading this years and years back and being super confused on how someone never felt gender dysphoria their entire life and then suddenly felt it after like, some time in an isekai. And looking at it now, it might not even be real so it feels more and more strange to me because I can't comprehend how someone would be comfortable for so long and then suddenly uncomfortable.

Well whatever, I don't have gender dysphoria so maybe this is normal for people that do.

The brain is... really weird. Recently, talking with some people in the community and a therapist has helped me realize that there's a very high chance I'm genderfluid, which means that some days, I feel no dysphoria and have no issues with myself as a guy, and some days, I feel completely wrong. I have my theories as to why this is the case, but the truth is, we don't really understand dysphoria, it is entirely possible for the brain to just randomly decide that "this is wrong". A lot of mental afflictions just do this for some reason. It also doesn't help that we internalize so much about this as "normal" until we learn that what we feel isn't normal. I thought that what I felt was perfectly normal, until I started talking and realized "no tf it's not, the average person doesn't. To use a relatively differeent example, it's why so many people late in life realize that they might have autism. I have a friend who recently got diagnosed with moderate functioning autism, and it took them 25 years to realize it because they internalized their symptoms, things like being extremely averse to physical contact or being easily overwhelmed to the point of going non-verbal, as normal things that everyone experiences, and until you talk about it with multiple people, you don't realize that it isn't. It's a similar story with why so many men don't realize they have depression.

We've reached a point in history where people can actually start discussing and researching these things and understanding better as to "why", they happen, because it's clear these things have been happening for a while, but a lot of what we know about this stuff is still in its infancy. Like, we know objectively things like trans women have different grey matter activity than men or women, but we don't know why really, and for everything else, most of what we know comes down to anecdotes and guesswork.

 

[maebemaebeno]

I really like this comic a lot, I keep coming back to it and smiling. It's genuinely transfem, unlike many of the manga on this site. But it's also very kind and understanding.

 

[Travisun]

Truly a Beauty.