01-03-2016, 10:03 PM
Thank you for the responses.
Somewhat helpful, I was thinking along similar lines - BDD isn't necessarily Trans, but Trans likely has aspects of BDD.
Not helping me, necessarily... ;-)
Also found some interesting info here:
http://www.fathersforlife.org/dale/childind.html
I won't derail the forum, but a few things are jumping out:
1. The samples are all homosexual; some are effeminate, some have GID. Numbers not presented.
2. Source's bias is not known. IE,. is it merely data? Did the researchers have an agenda (Pro or Anti is irrelevant, both skew data.)
3. A certain pattern emerges, which has also been discussed in the Manosphere: Dominant and/or Distant father (Authoritarian); Inappropriate relation with mother (Termed emotional incest occasionally.)
I know that #3 happened, but I also know I'm not interested in men. I can understand why a woman would want to be with a man, but even seeing myself as a female, I just... Can't. :-)
The mind being what it is, on other boards - I read about people who have essentially altered their sexuality. Don't believe it's fully "built from nothing," but I do believe it can be done (happened with me - Went from being repulsed by men, to being only mildly annoyed. I'm guessing pr0n functioning as a sort of immersion therapy.)
Going to look into the page a bit more, see if I can "correct" a bunch of issues that way.
Dad was an entrepreneur, and made a fairly successful business - but was a bully in a lot of ways, and socially maladapted. Even moreso for the late 20th century.
And Mom definitely leaned on me as a surrogate husband a few times, emotionally. (Plato made note of this as a feature of woman; I think it's more a matter of timing and degree, than an oddity. When a woman's husband dies, she leans on her son. Normal. When her husband, in middle age, is immersed in his life and building a company, and she has a close relationship with a son, whom she treats more as a confidante than a son, and whose masculine impulses she has censured...? Both mother and father are emasculating the boy, in different ways - and what's left for the son? How to grow? How to identify himself (or even herself, for someone who IS genetically TG?) TBD. )
I followed up on the biggest item blocking therapy, which I can control
(there's a few thousand reasons I have issues which I cannot control at the moment... Thank you Obamacare! Mandatory purchasing drives prices up, but how can you expect an oligarch feeding from the public trough to know economics?)
Anyway, that other issue...? Sig Sauer Academy class, purchased as a Christmas gift. And ... It's going to expire, while all the classes before the expiration are full. :-P
The downward spiral ain't done with me yet...
-Dianna
Somewhat helpful, I was thinking along similar lines - BDD isn't necessarily Trans, but Trans likely has aspects of BDD.
Not helping me, necessarily... ;-)
Also found some interesting info here:
http://www.fathersforlife.org/dale/childind.html
I won't derail the forum, but a few things are jumping out:
1. The samples are all homosexual; some are effeminate, some have GID. Numbers not presented.
2. Source's bias is not known. IE,. is it merely data? Did the researchers have an agenda (Pro or Anti is irrelevant, both skew data.)
3. A certain pattern emerges, which has also been discussed in the Manosphere: Dominant and/or Distant father (Authoritarian); Inappropriate relation with mother (Termed emotional incest occasionally.)
I know that #3 happened, but I also know I'm not interested in men. I can understand why a woman would want to be with a man, but even seeing myself as a female, I just... Can't. :-)
The mind being what it is, on other boards - I read about people who have essentially altered their sexuality. Don't believe it's fully "built from nothing," but I do believe it can be done (happened with me - Went from being repulsed by men, to being only mildly annoyed. I'm guessing pr0n functioning as a sort of immersion therapy.)
Going to look into the page a bit more, see if I can "correct" a bunch of issues that way.
Dad was an entrepreneur, and made a fairly successful business - but was a bully in a lot of ways, and socially maladapted. Even moreso for the late 20th century.
And Mom definitely leaned on me as a surrogate husband a few times, emotionally. (Plato made note of this as a feature of woman; I think it's more a matter of timing and degree, than an oddity. When a woman's husband dies, she leans on her son. Normal. When her husband, in middle age, is immersed in his life and building a company, and she has a close relationship with a son, whom she treats more as a confidante than a son, and whose masculine impulses she has censured...? Both mother and father are emasculating the boy, in different ways - and what's left for the son? How to grow? How to identify himself (or even herself, for someone who IS genetically TG?) TBD. )
I followed up on the biggest item blocking therapy, which I can control
(there's a few thousand reasons I have issues which I cannot control at the moment... Thank you Obamacare! Mandatory purchasing drives prices up, but how can you expect an oligarch feeding from the public trough to know economics?)
Anyway, that other issue...? Sig Sauer Academy class, purchased as a Christmas gift. And ... It's going to expire, while all the classes before the expiration are full. :-P
The downward spiral ain't done with me yet...
-Dianna