Dec 5, 2024
People who don't experience limb dysphoria will never understand that no amount of being reminded of how much harder life would be will fix it. I know the amputee in a wheelchair across the room has a hard life. This does not make the surge of my dysphoria go away, I cannot just keep reminding myself that society is not accessible to amputees and hope that it goes away. It's so irritating to open up to someone about these feelings, just for them to go 'you don't really want that, amputees have such hard lives :(' because no shit, captain obvious, but that doesn't stop me from occasionally wanting to rip off my legs!
