A Quote by Laura Jane Grace

I have gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia. I don't like to see pictures of myself. — © Laura Jane Grace
I have gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia. I don't like to see pictures of myself.
Someone who is experiencing gender dysphoria would be someone who feels that his biological sex doesn't match up with the gender that he feels. So, I might feel like I am a woman trapped in a male body, and you can imagine how horrible that would be to have that kind of experience or to think that you're a man trapped in a woman's body. It must be just a terribly difficult experience for those who experience gender dysphoria. But this is not anything to do with homosexual attraction or activity. It's a matter of one's self-perceived identity.
I've thought about my relationship to my body, my body dysmorphia, and what that means as someone who's like, 'Oh, I'm going to be on camera.' Sometimes it makes my body dysmorphia worse, but I've also tried to not let my mental illness rob the joy of getting to do something I've always wanted to do.
I deal with body dysmorphia a lot, so it's always a process to see and hear myself on camera. I have to be in the right mental mode to not be hyper-critical of myself.
I suffer from reverse body dysmorphia. When I look in the mirror I see somebody slimmer. It's quite a shock to see myself on TV, especially on widescreen.
I don't like looking at myself. I have such bad body dysmorphia.
I myself have gone through a lot of trials and tribulations with insecurity and body dysmorphia, and stuff like that.
I developed slight body dysmorphia - when I would break out, I couldn't look at myself in the mirror for a couple of months at a time. I remember doing my makeup before school in the dark, which is an awful idea, but it's because I didn't want to see myself in that bright light.
I think I suffer from body dysmorphia - I don't see what other people see.
I feel like I have really bad body dysmorphia.
People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.
Gender dysphoria is never an easy thing to live with, mainly because people don't understand it.
I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in the pictures.
When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.
I knew at a very early age, about 6 years old, that there was something different about me. But being young and not being exposed to people who had gender dysphoria, or role models that you see on TV today, I didn't know what it was.
I am very harsh on myself. I can point out a list. My nose is very strange. I have a very round face. I sound so ungrateful. Obviously I'm being hard on myself. Whether it's body dysmorphia, or whatever it is, I can always find something wrong.
There's this thing that publishes pictures of people out and about. So when I go out, I do see pictures of myself. I don't know where those pictures come from - I mean, I don't see the cameras. But I guess I'm just not looking for them.
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