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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.
Comment by Particular_Daikon127 at 15/01/2025 at 10:12 UTC
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you act as if the ideas you propose here are inconclusive and therefore worthy of discussion. but every major professional medical association in the united states agrees that gender dysphoria does not function as a disorder of psychosis the way body integrity disorder or schizophrenia do. if you disagree, you must have some pretty profound evidence to contradict literally all of them. i'd be fascinated to hear it.