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and because you don't experience these things, it means no one else must experience them? what a limited perspective to have on the diversity of psychology and life in general. more than that, your argument here is both circular and highly personal: because *you* don't think about this, it means there's nothing there worth thinking about at all. perhaps unfortunately for you, there is more to human existence than what happens inside your one specific head.
transgender people do not uniformly enter a state of crisis when misgendered. many simply wish it had not happened, similarly as i imagine you would prefer, all else being equal, to not be mistaken for a man on the phone. you're creating your own scenarios here.
Comment by Famous-Ad-9467 at 15/01/2025 at 10:08 UTC*
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No, they are clearly experiencing something different than I am, otherwise, they wouldn't experience extreme distress over it. I've never hallucinated visually or audibly. But I can't tell someone going through auditory hallucinations that no, they aren't hearing what they think they are hearing.
Nor can I tell someone going through extreme Body Integrity Dysphoria that when they believe the limb they whole heartedly believe isn't their own, that they aren't thinking what they are thinking just because I've never experienced that or it doesn't make sense to me.
I've never experienced anorexia/body dysphoria and I can't understand how someone sees themselves as fat yet they are skin and bones.
Perception of self varies widely in humans.
However, we can discuss if those feelings or experiences are based in reality or not. Are they real? Is there any basis for that experience in the shared reality we exist in? Are schizophrenics actually hearing what they swear up and down that they hear but no one else does? Is an anorexic girl fat simply because she perceives herself so?
These are intriguing discussions to me.