Dysphoria Quotes
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“The more I stare at my body, the more I hate it. It's the same feelings I had before I realized I'm nonbinary. Things just aren't where they're supposed to be, and I feel like I'm larger and smaller than myself at the same time. Like nothing adds up.”
― I Wish You All the Best
― I Wish You All the Best

“Looking down, she became aware of the water, which was covered with a film of calcinous hard-water particles of dirt and soap, and of the body that was sitting in it, somehow no longer quite her own. All at once she was afraid that she was dissolving, coming apart layer by layer like a piece of cardboard in a gutter puddle.”
― The Edible Woman
― The Edible Woman

“They're expected to forget everything they knew about being anything other than what they're supposed to be.”
― When the Moon Was Ours
― When the Moon Was Ours
“It鈥檚 not possible to live twenty-four hours a day soaked in the immediate awareness of one鈥檚 sex. Gendered self-consciousness has, mercifully, a flickering nature.”
― Am I That Name?: Feminism And The Category Of Women In History
― Am I That Name?: Feminism And The Category Of Women In History

“Not that I hate my body. There are just parts of it that aren't what they should be.”
― Between Perfect and Real
― Between Perfect and Real

“Dysphoria is that bitch who visits the family and wreaks havoc. Sometimes she plucks away, needling and poking, whispering doubts and lies and pulling at the threads of resolve. Sometimes she is in full-on assault mode, attacking the very core of belief, ego and confidence. Sometimes she lingers. Sometimes she disappears as rapidly as she appears, but not before she has darkened things, unsettled all and left a tumultuous mess.”
― She Said, She Said: Love, Loss and Living My New Normal
― She Said, She Said: Love, Loss and Living My New Normal

“Sidi, I ache inside. I yearn to fly away, to feel free in the light, in the dark. I don't ever want to come back.”
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“It's the strangling feeling, like you've been buried alive and are struggling to breathe, like you don't exist. That the most important part of you is invisible and, thus, unreal. If people don't see me as a boy, then they don't see me at all.”
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“...how much easier would it be to walk through the world without armor? How much lighter might I feel, if I didn't feel the need to put on some barrier all the time, some protective layer between me and everyone else? Not because I hate my body, but because I don't want to deal with anyone else's feelings about it. Maybe it'd be nice.”
― The Fae Keeper
― The Fae Keeper

“The dirty secrets of high altitude astronomy are unnaturally high solar radiation levels, Faraday cage sickness, man-made electromagnetic exposures, breathing industrial gas, oxygen starvation, organ damage, gastrointestinal problems, malnutrition, altered hormones, Gender Dysphoria (GD), shift work disorder, mental illness and occupational diseases.”
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“Gender Dysphoria (GD) in high altitude astronomy workers was occurring as low as 2,423m (7,949ft).”
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“I became aware during my time in high altitude astronomy that some workers would develop Gender Dysphoria (GD).”
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“I was aware of approximately 50 high altitude workers histories during my time in astronomy. For 3 of those workers to be displaying Gender Dysphoria (GD) puts the rate at 6%. The rate is probably higher, as I suspect that some workers were hiding it.”
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“I have the rate of Gender Dysphoria (GD) estimated at 6% of high altitude workers that I know disclosed the condition. I suspect the rate is higher due to some workers not disclosing it and the actual rate may be approximately 12%.”
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“If you are vulnerable to gender issues, working or living at high altitudes may bring on Gender Dysphoria (GD).”
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“We are poison women, Diane, because our bodies do all turn what enters them into poison, and we make poison and spread poison, because we are sadness itself. There is no way for us not to be that.”
― Summer Fun
― Summer Fun

“I still believed I could will my body to become what my mind knew it should be: free and strong as a coil of brass wire. My chest and belly felt swollen and full, and every movement reminded me of how wrong I felt. I moved slower. A chasm had opened between me and my skin, as though I were fumbling around in a too-big pair of gloves. The only words I had back then were for what I knew I wasn't鈥攁 girl. But how to explain this feeling that my body was a tracing of something else, and not all the lines matched up?”
― The Thirty Names of Night
― The Thirty Names of Night

“When I was a kid, I never wanted to leave the pool. I used to throw tantrums at the end of open swim. I told you it was because I loved swimming, because I wanted to feel like a dolphin, because I wanted to pretend for another five minutes to be a mermaid. Looking back, it wasn't that I wanted my body to feel magical; I wanted it to feel transparent.”
― The Thirty Names of Night
― The Thirty Names of Night
“I have been doomed to be a girl who must pass her earthly existence in a male body. How dreadful it is to a young woman to have a slight growth of hair on lip or cheeks ! Only one mark of the male ! How much more dreadful for a young woman to possess almost all the male anatomy as I do ! How I have bewailed my fate!”
― Autobiography of an Androgyne
― Autobiography of an Androgyne
“Obsessing over [Clint's own] gender would make him dysphoric, sacrificing the many labors it took to reach this dreamlike idyll where he can just be.”
― American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era
― American Teenager: How Trans Kids Are Surviving Hate and Finding Joy in a Turbulent Era
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