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[–]MarkTwainiac 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

the difference between other mental illnesses such as dementia and gender dysphoria or identity is that others usually agree with one's gender identity, while if someone with dementia says they hear voices, or see things that are not there, others usually do not agree there are voices or things out there, they know they are hallucinations.

Please leave people with dementia out of this. Dementia is

a chronic or persistent disorder of the mental processes caused by brain disease or injury and marked by memory disorders, personality changes, and impaired reasoning.

Dementia is not the same as schizophrenia and psychosis, the conditions you are describing.

Dementia can have a variety of causes and can occur in anyone at any stage of life. However, it's most commonly found in the elderly, and in the West it affects many more female people than male people. Dementia is primarily age and sex-linked.

Dragging dementia into this convo does a real disservice to people with, or vulnerable to, this condition. And it's just one more example of how genderists constantly appropriate other people's wholly unrelated medical conditions, mental illnesses, historical experiences, struggles and suffering in the effort to make their made-up identity claims seem more legitimate.