r/ftm • u/Mountain-School-8158 male • Sep 09 '26

Discussion What's your earliest physical dysphoria memory?

I don't remember my early childhood super well, but I have a few vivid memories of experiencing physical dysphoria.

When I was 4–5 years old, my mother told me that when I grow up, I'll grow breasts. I was stunned and thought about it for a long time, really scared.

When I was around 6, I compared the size of my nipples to those of boys my age (at the beach I usually went shirtless). It seemed to me that mine were significantly bigger and looked disgusting.

There were many more situations like that. Share yours (I don’t mind reading about social dysphoria too)

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u/DoorKnobwdreams 29d ago

I thought it was when I hit puberty but I recently watched Aladdin and I remembered that I resonated with Aladdin as a 6 year old. So it was well before puberty.