Also, a study that was done on furries. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.376188-Furries-Not-Entirely-Human Furries are not the same as therians, but the point is, about 25% of a group that you would expect to have a lot less species dysphoria than therians (because furry is just a roleplaying thing for a lot of people), talked about having it.
I actually do know some people who have (or had in the past) real body dysphoria about weight. Not just "society tells me that I should be thin to be attractive", but "I feel like I look right in the mirror when I am at X weight, and wrong when I am at Y weight". It's not anorexia, because an anorexic person never feels like they look right... but, a legitimate feeling that they are happy at a particular weight.
So, do they have the brain of an X weight person?
What also bothers me about Jarandhel's "science" is that it doesn't have any controls. How many people on trans* forums use the words "dysphoria" or "wrong body"? Telling people that the word "dysphoria" was used in X% of posts on a therian forum doesn't mean anything unless we have some others to compare it to... how often is it used on trans* forums, and how often is it used on forums that are not about trans* or therian issues?
Without that, you can't say what those numbers mean at all.
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Also, a study that was done on furries. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.376188-Furries-Not-Entirely-Human Furries are not the same as therians, but the point is, about 25% of a group that you would expect to have a lot less species dysphoria than therians (because furry is just a roleplaying thing for a lot of people), talked about having it.
I actually do know some people who have (or had in the past) real body dysphoria about weight. Not just "society tells me that I should be thin to be attractive", but "I feel like I look right in the mirror when I am at X weight, and wrong when I am at Y weight". It's not anorexia, because an anorexic person never feels like they look right... but, a legitimate feeling that they are happy at a particular weight.
So, do they have the brain of an X weight person?
What also bothers me about Jarandhel's "science" is that it doesn't have any controls. How many people on trans* forums use the words "dysphoria" or "wrong body"? Telling people that the word "dysphoria" was used in X% of posts on a therian forum doesn't mean anything unless we have some others to compare it to... how often is it used on trans* forums, and how often is it used on forums that are not about trans* or therian issues?
Without that, you can't say what those numbers mean at all.