at what age did your dysphoria awaken

[stephaniec]

just a curious question , everyone has a different tale to tell and we seem all to become aware of some dysphoria at all different ages . Mine started a 4 and was relentless through out my life. I wasn't able to deal with it medically until a year ago.

[Lady_Oracle]

5 are my earliest memories of it but it wasn't until puberty that it started to cause serious issues.

[kelly_aus]

I became aware of the issue at 12. However, hindsight would suggest that it was making itself known well before then.

[stephaniec]

I only became aware of it at 4 because I developed a severe cross  dressing situation with my sisters clothes. It was something that hit me pretty hard and lasted my entire life

[Ellesmira the Duck]

It became most notable around 12 but I think were signs earlier. I think it was easier to tell when Boys and girls really started looking different.

[CrissyMarie]

Between 4-5 years old.  I began slow by mostly playing with my female cousin with her dolls and dress up, around 7 I started taking her clothes and wearing them in secret, that's the basis of it all.

[Jill F]

I knew something was up at age 4, but I kept that part of me well hidden until I could no longer do it without extreme anguish and pain.  The dysphoria really blew up in mah face at age 43, and I finally started to present female. Two months later I went on low dose HRT, and four months later I was full time.

[ImagineKate]

4-5 is when it started. Puberty it kicked up to a whole new level. 36 is when it crushed me.

[Miss_Bungle1991]

It was at the age of 4. I gave as many signs as possible between ages 4 and 12 in the hopes that someone would get the hint. After a ton of crap, I gave up at age 13. Finally, at age 29, the walls came tumbling down and I knew that I had to do something about the gender dysphoria or my days were certainly going to be numbered.

[Jaz650]

I had never been attracted to girls, only boys. Since like 4,5,6,?? Yeah. However, at eleven, when I started puberty, I felt really wrong. I was a girl, but gay? Didn't fit.. At the age of fourteen, I was talking to my psychiatrist about my "gayness", but my feeling about being a girl slipped out, Thank God!, and she diagnosed me with GID, and within like a month, I was on hormones! Thank God again! And always!

[DanielleA]

My dysphoria has been around my entire life (that I remember) but I had 4 major points in my life were my need to be female really flew off the handle . The earliest was after preschool at age 4 when I almost removed my least favourite body part. That is my earliest memory. My older brother has mentioned other things before then though.

[Lady_Oracle]

Yeah I should of been more honest with my parents else I would of started hrt at the ideal time. I had teachers in elementary school telling me as early as kindergarten that I wasn't allowed to do this or that cause it wasn't what "lil boys" are supposed to be doing, its only for girls. That young and being forced into gender roles is so damaging..

[Valerie Rose]

Around puberty. My mom ran a thrift store...you can image the fun I had with free clothes.

[Leah443]

I never really used to identify by genders and i never really saw genders until around 12-13 years old when a female friend started going through puberty and i was uber jealous because i couldn't have that. so i stupidly kept it hidden until i was 24 and the rest is history

[Blondie14]

I have dysphoria over my male genitalia sorta. I feel like it's out of place. I have felt that way since I started puberty like about 2 years ago. But other than that ever since I started puberty I look more feminine and am happy with this. I started getting wider hips longer legs and in general I have a build similar to a really skinny model. I like becoming a woman I smjust feel my makes genitalia is what holds me back from being exactly who I smwant to be.

[CrysC]

I was 5 or so when I first began to want to be a girl and not a boy.  Might have been 4.  Before that I had girl mannerisms that I was taught not to do such as cross my legs when sitting and fixing my walk. 

[jessical]

I was four.  It was a time that gender roles were starting to be enforced.    Before then I could be myself, but there came a point where "boys don't do that" was being told to me.  Not just by my parents, but my peers as well.  It especially hit home, when I started kindergarten.  I ended up avoiding everyone at school.

[Carrie Liz]

Age 13ish for me. And it basically hit me like a brick wall completely out of nowhere, after basically never even thinking about my gender as a kid. I guess puberty, along with the rapidly more gender-segregated social treatment that comes with it, does that to a lot of people.

[Ms Grace]

I can't remember the age exactly... 5-ish? I was at the beach with my family and after we went for a swim had to have a shower before catching the ferry home. I was totally confused as to why I had to go with my father and my sister got to go with my mother. In the shower change area there was shower stall after shower stall of naked guys, their dongles all wobbling about. I never felt more like I didn't belong somewhere than then.

[katrinaw]

Somewhere between 4 & 6.
By 6 I wanted to lose my boyhood! At 5 was playing girl roles in games. Always felt more comfortable with girls chatting and being a confidant etc...