Can gender dysphoria make you emotionally detached from life?
Today I went to the doctor and he told me I needed to exercise to live longer. And it made me realize something strange: I can’t emotionally connect with that argument. Not because I want to die or anything like that, but because I simply don’t feel that strong attachment to my own existence that other people seem to feel.
Then I started thinking about something: does a newborn miss life before being born? Before existing, did you miss anything? No, because you don’t miss something you never lived.
So sometimes I think: what if I never really lived?
Recently I started considering the possibility that I might be a trans woman, and sometimes I think that, if that’s true, maybe I spent my entire life simply not existing.
And maybe that’s why I never managed to develop that strong attachment to life itself that other people seem to have.
Has anyone else ever thought something similar?