Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an intergral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on it's evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Be respectful to each other. This is of utmost importance, and comments may be removed if deemed not respectful.
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Avoid long drawn out arguments. This should be a place to relax, not to waste your time needlessly.
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Personal anecdotes, puzzles, cute pics/clips - everything welcome
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Please do not spam at the top level. If you have a lot to post each day, try and post them all together in one top level comment
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Try keep things light. If you are bringing in deep stuff, try not to go overboard.
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Things that are clearly on-topic for this board should be posted as a separate post and not here (except if you are new and still getting the feel of this place)
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If you find people violating these rules, deport them rather than start a argument here.
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evoloving
In short, imagine this thread to be a local community hall where we all gather and chat daily. Please be respectful to others in the same way
Why is it gender "dysphoria" when one thinks they are the opposite gender and want to take drastic measures like loping off body parts yet it is body "dysmorphia" when a person hates their body and wants to take drastic measures like weight loss pills, extreme dieting, and even trying to seek other medical ways to lose weight? BOTH (gender & body) deal with having a false sense of reality on what their own appearance truly is.
Dysphoria is a general dissatisfaction/uneasiness. (The opposite being euphoria) It does NOT require medical intervention as it is not detrimentally impacting the persons day to day life, not give them thoughts of suicide, etc.
Dysmorphia is an extreme obsession that SEVERELY impacts ones mental state, and requires professional treatment.
Those who
Its not "gender dysphoria" that is going on that is causing all these people to want to chemically & medically castrate themselves. Its GENDER DYSMORPHIA and I am sick of the medical community, the media, ect, trying to change how words are used/defined in order to conceal agendas.
Me too fren, and it requires hundreds of thousands (if not millions) to die needlessly, before the general public can wake up to this.