People on here tend to use the two terms like they can be exchanged with one another, but in truth they are two separate things. Gender dysphoria is the feeling/state of unease and/or discomfort with ones gender and sex traits. This is dysmorphia I just wanted people to know that. It has been bothering me for some reason.
These are different things that are pretty similar in a general sense, but totally different when you get down to it. You can have both though. I probably have both. Like, everyone with dysphoria probably has it in some sense. But at the same time, no. I guess the difference is that people with dysphoria have nothing wrong with them. Transgender people have lots wrong with them, compared to people of their actual gender. Like, I have so much wrong with me, compared to girls. But at the same time, there is nothing physically wrong with me. It is just that I have some mental shit going on up in my head. Nothing wrong, but very little right, either. IDK if we should bother comparing these things, TBH. It seems irrelevant. And if you have dysphoria, you have dysphoria. Whether you have dysmorphia as well or not, it's kind-of irrelevant... IDk.
What's interesting is that the disconnect often caused by dysphoria can actually make it harder to hate your body because of a physical defect. For example, I have a disfigured leg because of cancer, I've never really cared about how it looks because I've always felt disconnected from my body thus I don't really see it as part of who I am. On the other hand we will often hate a body part because of how others perceive our gender as a result of it or what that body part says about us in relation to gender. These are clearly symptoms of gender dysphoria. I believe that dysmorphia can become more big of a problem once a person starts transitionng and the dysphoria begins to lift, making the person start hating body parts as they look too male or female...parts as they look too male or female...