Christopher123
Still a Virgin at heart
I'll check out the link, thank youNot a psychologist, but I wonder if this is related to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder ?
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I'll check out the link, thank youNot a psychologist, but I wonder if this is related to this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_dysmorphic_disorder ?
I have. She never answers. She only complains about her weight in front of overweight women. But with her friends she thinks she's perfect. So we assume she's just trying to make the heavy girls jealous.
Well in that case tell her to strike a pose and shut the fuck up. In the friendliest way possible, of course.
Chris, it doesn't sound like a transgender issue to me but rather a body image issue. She really needs some therapy to explore these feeliings of hers to figure out where they came from and why they are there.
As long as she feels that way about her body, it is sure to spill over and affect her self-esteem and leave her feeling very unhappy.
This does seem like the best approach.Really, the only option is to listen to her. I doubt that there are many people that she feels comfortable enough to talk to about this. And there is nothing that you can say to make a person feel better about that problem.
Not to mention the fact that you have to live two years as the opposite sex, before surgery, in this world...
Yes the feelings that we have are irrational but that does not make us all irrational people. Some of us view it as too much trouble and money just for the right to have strangers view us in the same light that we have always viewed ourselves. We simply learn to cope.

Chris: Ship her off to Thailand and surprise her with a sex-change operation.
So, she wants to be a guy but is also attracted to guys sexually. Is this sort of thing very common? I thought transgendered people were generally attracted to their same sex (before any sex change)?
At first I wondered what could have caused the feeling. I also felt it when ever I was changing in public pool locker rooms as a kid. I can never tell if my interest in being seen or even desired by men had anything to do with my identity issues or if they stood on their own. I really need to find a therapist.

