Isn't that a classic symptom of schizophrenia?
Or something like that? Can't be bothered to look it up.
Narcissism and sociopathy more so, schizophrenia from what I understand often seems like this but it's more because the person struggles to not be able to focus and I presume that's one reason that schizophrenia drugs seem to work so much better since once the "voices" or whatever stop the person can otherwise be normal on their own or other therapy.
I think it's useful to frame mental illness like schizophrenia as if it's an "external" force or disease/virus because one of the components is how even if you know it will break you down, whereas many other mental illnesses seem to be indeed tied to a worldview with faulty premises which is like why things like CBT (which targets the false premises) work as well or better than the drugs. Lots of troons and others on social media approach their issues, depression/anxiety/"gender dysphoria"/etc., as if you just take a pill and it will go away and they don't need to do anything else. (See also: their 2021 theories of how vaccines work like starship forcefields.) When this doesn't work they need to just take more pills or whatever, leading to people like Elliot becoming benzo addicts, none of which will ever work because it's their central philosophy that needs to be challenged and they adamantly refuse to do this. Even bad therapy, like they shop for, isn't going to work if you aren't willing to tackle your thoughts.
I obviously think it's good to be skeptical in general at all times, I post on the Kiwi Farms after all, but you especially should be
when you know your own thoughts are wrong which is how we identify mental illness. Psychology doesn't work because they reject the premise of it even as they believe pseudoscience fad shit allows them to control everyone else's minds. They fall back on psychiatry because it's more "scientific" even though its list of failures is longer than psychology and many psychiatrists will freely admit how somewhat vague and nebulous their practices are. (The big one, especially when it comes to troons, being how do you know which "illness" being identified is the actual one? You can't like do a biopsy or blood test, you can't really "see" any of this, people tend not to realize it's an older form of medical science still even as they go to the psychiatrist and pretty much only
talk to them.)
By far my favorite L story, almost too good to be real.
It's here on this thread, more than a 100 pages behind. I invite anyone who hasn't read that to look for it
edit: Also i'm posting a fresh one to remind you that pooners are on a completely different level and that r/ftm is a gold mine
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"Misgendering kink"
Or, maybe being a female properly referred to as a "female" gives you gender euphoria??
The mental hoops these blobs jump through just to feel different is hilarious.
Good example of the mental philosophy stuff I'm talking about. She obviously wants this sex, including with the same guy even, but it's "after" when she steps back to ideology that the "dysphoria" kicks in because she knew she violated the ideology. She uses the excuse of being intoxicated to escape the ideology rather than admit she wants it. Yes, of course, being intoxicated lowers your inhibitions, but it doesn't make you do things you truly don't want to do in any way ever. With her inhibitions lowered her preference of adhering to the ideology drops for her actual individual preferences and just as importantly she allows herself to do so because she's intoxicated. It
has to be a degrading kink because she's really a true and honest man and no true and honest man would enjoy that. (Please ignore what you can easily find on the internet.) She absolutely passes "nearly all the time" and "is quite masculine looking" even though this guy instantly hit on her and when she "revealed" herself to him he didn't flinch because he already knew.
She could drop all this and just be an individual but uh god the dysphoria I know I must absolutely have and the way it makes me sin. I'm just so glad I can confess to a hugbox that will tell me I'm such a good person and forgive me for my sins as long as I make sure to adhere to the ideology outside of my occasional repeated sinning.
Now many of these types have reached a point where they have applied this thought disease to transforming into a woman. Their premises are likewise incorrect ("I can change sex," "it is reasonable to expect others to see me as a female") and their approach to other humans is unchanged ("If I add wig + skirt, character's perception of me will switch from MALE to FEMALE").
And like you said, as narcissists, they cannot examine their premises, so when it continues to fail they are trapped in a blind loop of asking advice from other troons (i.e., "the only other people who can be trusted, because they recognize that my premises are correct") about how to finally crack the code and win.
It's also important that their much of their premise rests on how they expect others to respond to females because it's probably how they think of women. Women get whatever they want whenever they ask or if they don't they can just get emotional and get what they want and everyone excuses it and worships the woman. My favorite lolcow Jake Alley thinks that women are given book deals and sent on media tours whenever they want, it's just something society does for women and he's very angry at the transphobia that means he's never been given that despite
clearly being a woman too. (Even doctors and nurses can't tell and try to molest him when he goes in for surgery, like they do normally to women, btw.) The sexual stuff is just the most obvious manifestation in most of them, from their perspective women can just get sex whenever they want, something men can't do as proven by the fact that they can't do it. Clearly then if I become a woman (which thankfully one can just declare) then I can have sex whenever I want. Weirdly this never works and rather than drop that premise they become "sluts" and pansexual and T4T and whatever else in part because of this and in part because those areas have lower standards. The transbian meme is so popular because they clearly didn't change their preferences, they changed their presentation and now expect their preferences to accept it. They got the cheat code, they're doing the inputs, so here come the outputs: sex with lesbians.
An idea along the lines that women may be biologically drastically different but aren't psychologically or mentally
too different in the aggregate (and any specific woman may not be at all at the individual level), something as the leading feminists in history they should naturally believe, even if women display different preferences due to evolutionary forces is something they completely reject. Women
must be the opposite of men, especially them specifically, in every way. Also, btw, we're queering gender by challenging all your outdated inflexible norms and stereotypes.
edit: Their theory of HRT shows the same exact thinking. You change one thing, your sex hormone balance, your biology will shift entirely* in response as always since it's a very fragile ecosystem based on a single variable and naturally the womanness will begin to flow in every area, especially your thoughts.
*Speaking of Jake, he used to claim your genitals would turn back "inside out" from this. Sadly he's dropped this claim after three years of it not happening to him just like it never happened with anyone else in history.