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Webster
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is there a word for feeling no identity with my own body but not feeling dysphoric in relation to it? like my body is just an interface for my ego? like when i see my body in in the mirror and think "that's you" it just feels fundamentally incorrect? the same way thinking "that's you" to my car would be when i'm inside my car?


Webster
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by reading this post you're interfacing with me independently of my body. to you, i don't look like a body. i look like a post. that's me. i'm a post. still feels incorrect, but not any more or less incorrect than saying i'm my body.


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in reply to @Webster's post:

I feel similarly, my therianism doesn't manifest in phantom sensations or hatred of this vessel, I am simply not inside what I am outside, this is the vehicle this cartoon fox is piloting, it doesn't really mean anything

said it better than i could.

oddly though, sometimes, i do feel the opposite specifically when i'm driving. like the car is a literal extension of my body... but maybe that's a common feeling for people who have driven a lot. (i have probably thousands of hours behind the wheel from various delivery jobs and road trips)

in reply to @Webster's post:

that's interesting to me, bc it reminds me of dissociative feelings that I used to have that were very much rooted in dysphoria. kind of the mental equivalent of looking through/past something so that your eyes never focus on it. I guess there are many ways to have that feeling of disconnection.

im not sure if a term exists, exactly, but nobody says you've gotta use someone else's word

i know some ace folks use aegosexual (literally meaning "without self") and i wonder if you could apply that same linguistic construct to a physcial body rather than sexual attraction?

something like aegomorphia, although that's... a bit of a mouthful?

i mean im only kinda half serious and half just playing because words can be toys, but if nothing that exists fits, you can just invent a word and maybe it'll resonate with other people?