I am biologically female. I was born with a female body, and raised to believe I was a female.
Yet, I never was. Oh, how I loved the attention, though. I was cute and funny and sometimes popular. Only when I acted like a girl. Being a girl, with its ups and downs, never felt right. Yet, I figured these feelings will pass. It's a phase, childish mentality, rebellious attitude, thirst for attention, and any other disgusting excuse that came across my ears.
It was never severe. I never truly felt the full extent of dysphoria. I pushed it away, and it grew into something ugly.
Now, I have (diagnosed) clinical depression, severe anxiety, mild A