throneprince:

i dont understand species dysphoria. Like yeah i get a little uncomfortable when i remember i dont have wings or claws or horns but it just, doesn’t bother me all that much? My sex dysphoria always hurts worse, so idk.

That’s why it helps to listen to others. I’m the other way ‘round- species dysphoria is a bitch and a half and can be downright debilitating for me, whereas gender dysphoria is only a mild problem most of the time unless for some reason I hyperfocus on it. 

They can and do intermingle sometimes, but these things tend to very person to person. Your gender dysphoria won’t look like anyone else’s identically, nor will your species dysphoria look like anyone else’s identically. You have a fair bit of one and not too much of the other, by the looks of it; and I’m the same way but flipped. There are those entirely with one and not at all the other, and those who have about the same amount of both. And everything in between.

You don’t have to understand it. You shouldn’t be rude about it, that goes against being a decent person in the current society we have, but it’s entirely possible to have absolutely no idea what’s going on. For things like this, you really just gotta listen a bit, and try to learn, and see how you relate to things like that. A better understanding of experiences is never a bad thing, really.