Edit: I’m a little worried I may have misused the word “alleviate”, which I thought means “to ease a little bit in a non permanent way”. Sorry if I accidentally made you all confused. xD

I wrote this in another community the other day:

As to why I insist on buying female centric vinyls, I’m not quite sure, but it could have something to do with my gender dysphoria. I believe the psychological mechanism is too complex for me to even begin to understand, but I think I listen to what I want to become or what I would have wanted to be in the first place, gender-wise (voice, body, clothing, etc.). Maybe vinyl, being an older medium, brings me back to and helps me imagine a childhood that I wish I could have had? I just spitballing here though…

Here is the original post: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/821181/comment/4976422#comment_4977719

Can you relate? Is there music that alleviates your dysphoria?

  • nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    14 days ago

    sometimes After Laughter or This is Why by Paramore can help me feel more like myself, but most times music is better distraction than alleviation

    for the best distraction I just listen to my all time faves: The Black Parade, American Idiot, 21st Century Breakdown, Selfish Machines, Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge, RIOT! etc. Punky loud and angry songs help a lot for me personally as you can see lol

    • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      Now THIS is music that makes me feel at home :)

      For some reason, from me, Paramore tops all the others you mentioned :D it’s absolute eargasm listening to After Laughter with my HiFi earphones 😍