What's the connection between being trans and having other mental disorders?

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[–]bopomofodojo 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is an iceberg.

First of all, a lot of it ties back to narcissism. These people absolutely crave attention - positive or negative - and will do anything to get it. Trans gets them attention. Claiming to have 18 self-diagnosed mental illnesses gets them attention. Acting like a lunatic and writing unreadable star-filled diatribes gets them attention.

Next, there is indeed a correlation between autism and trans. Likely because, well, autistic people tend to be socially isolated, unable to connect with other people, and most importantly, deeply unhappy with themselves and their bodies. In comes a socially contagious movement claiming that if you "just take these drugs and chop off some bits, you'll be your TrUe SeLf and happy all the time". And because of the autistic tendency to hyper-fixate, this becomes their be-all-end-all: personality, hobby, social circle, etc. It's a vicious cycle. Just replace "trans" with "heroin" and listen to them talk, and it becomes clear how similar it is to a drug addition.

Last at least for this post, well, they probably do have a couple serious mental illnesses. We live in a deeply disturbing society for numerous reasons and in numerous ways, and huge swaths of young people are depressed, anxious, and abusing non-drug things like drugs (video games, social media, etc.) for the dopamine hit. A few go off the deep end, and statistically speaking, that's a lot of people. But on another hand, well, if you're a healthy, happy, well-adjusted 20-something person, are you really going to go off a deep end and start fixating on taking hormones and chopping off bits? I mean, unless your friends all are (social contagion after all), probably not. And the silent majority of normal people who aren't terminally online just don't make the noise these crazies do.

[–]Haylstorm 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The autism one feels like it has multiple parts to it too, like if you've put things in boxes of male/female and you like idk baking I can genuinely see some thinking, I like baking that's a female thing therefore I am a woman.

Personally I think it's the symptom rather than the cause for a lot of them, so depression/unhappiness presents as being uncomfortable with their body and they see that as a fix to their problems. Sorta like surgery addicts who just need to fix their nose and they'll be happy. And they are. For a week. Before something else needs surgery and then they'll be happy. Ofc they'll never actually be happy like that because the actual issue isn't that they hate a body part it's something in the mind that they need to fix. But that's not quick and easy.