June 25, 2017

A Chilling Lack of Discomfort Part 1

Depersonalization and being Transgender.

A lack of identity, and feeling psychically disconnected from my body, combined with a sense of being born the wrong gender presents an interesting mix of feelings, or lack thereof. Normally one would expect a transgender person to be unhappy with their birth sex, and yes, while I’m generally dissatisfied being in a male body, over the years the feeling that I’m “connected” with my physical body has more or less eroded away. This has created a very warped sense of how I perceive my body, my body is less-so “me”, and more-so just a vessel.

I view my consciousness and body as separate, and while this lends me a certain amount of comfort, it also often leads to odd quirks. One example is looking in the mirror, when I look in the mirror it’s typically a very jarring experience as my mind seems to reject the body I’m in and sometimes perceives my reflection as a different person.

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