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Me and My Dysphoria Monster is a children’s picture book intended for children ages 6–10. In the back of the book, it includes a terminology guide. [1] The illustrations are in a cartoony style with saturated colors and cute characters. The book contains many diverse characters, including the main character, Nisha, who is depicted with ...
Dys4ia (pronounced dysphoria) is an abstract, autobiographical Adobe Flash video game that Anna Anthropy, then known as Auntie Pixelante, developed to recount her experiences of gender dysphoria and hormone replacement therapy. The game was originally published on Newgrounds but was later removed by Anthropy.
Symptoms of GD in children include preferences for opposite sex-typical toys, games, activities, or playmates as well as a great dislike of their own genitalia. [26] Some children may also experience social isolation from their peers, anxiety , loneliness, and depression . [ 4 ]
Dysphoria (from Ancient Greek δύσφορος (dúsphoros) 'grievous'; from δυσ-(dus-) 'bad, difficult' and φέρω (phérō) 'to bear') is a profound state of unease or dissatisfaction. It is the semantic opposite of euphoria. In a psychiatric context, dysphoria may accompany depression, anxiety, or agitation. [1]
Children with persistent gender dysphoria are characterized by more extreme gender dysphoria in childhood than children with desisting gender dysphoria. [1] Some (but not all) gender variant youth will want or need to transition, which may involve social transition (changing dress, name, pronoun), and, for older youth and adolescents, medical transition (hormone therapy or surgery).
Anna Anthropy is an American video game designer, [3] role-playing game designer, and interactive fiction author whose works include Mighty Jill Off and Dys4ia.She is the game designer in residence at the DePaul University College of Computing and Digital Media.
Gender dysphoria: Gender dysphoria or gender identity disorder (GID) occurs when the child identifies as the opposite sex. GID, previously known as transsexualism , occurs when a person has a strong desire to be the opposite sex because they feel uncomfortable in their own body.
The books involve a branching path format in order to move between sections of text, but the reader creates a character as in a role-playing game, and resolves actions using a game-system. Unlike role-playing solitaire adventures, adventure gamebooks include all the rules needed for play in each book.