people donāt talk enough about just how upsetting species dysphoria can be, but you can never really talk about it because it either feels so unserious/silly or something to do with serious mental illness whenever you try to explain it to anyone who isnāt alterhuman (not that thereās anything wrong with it if it is mental illness or delusion ofc, itās just that thatās the first conclusion people always come to)
like iāll say
āyeah basically as much as i love dog show agility/running dog videos i donāt watch them often because i get pretty dysphoric about my body not being able to run and move that way or that fastā
and itāll either be
āuhhh what? i thought u were just like some āhehe silly ouppy boy :3ā person wdym dysphoriaā¦.so likeā¦you ACTAULLY think your a dogā¦and like wanna be a dogā¦? oh sweetieā¦thatās notā¦ā
OR
āyouuuu know thatās not healthyyyyy, like yknow that means your delusionallllll and you have psychosisssss rightttt? and like that you have a mental illnessss and like you needa go to therapyyyy righttttt?ā
LIKE
URGHHHHHHHHH
