Gastrodysphoria

Gastrodysphoria (or foodysphoria) is a generic term describing a type of gender dysphoria (falling under xenodysphoria umbrella) surrounding, related, caused by types of food, drinks, specific flavor, or combination of aromas, It is mainly related to flavor but can also be related to texture and appearance. An individual with gastrodysphoria feels a sense of gender discomfort or distress from interacting with food. Someone who experiences this type of dysphoria may call themself foodsphoric, and in the case where dysphoria is caused by a specific food such as an apple for exemple, the person have ' appledysphoria '.

It can be experienced in a large variety of ways, such as eating food, looking it, touch it, smell it, etc. Experiencing gastrodysphoria is very different from simply disliking food, it's a psychological distress/discomfort as 'traditional gender dysphoria'. The felt dysphoria can be intense to the point it may cause depressive symptoms, anxiety or self-destructive thoughts. Someone can experience gastrodysphoria but still find food delicious even if it causes gender dysphoria and a person can dislike a specific food without having a gastrodysphoria on that specific food.

Dysphoria can be experienced weakly or strongly, and its intensity can fluctuate during or after an interaction with food (gastrodysphflux). Experiencing this type of dysphoria is not exclusive to a specific gender, as any gender identity can experience it.

Generic categories (non-exhaustive list):
• Lactodysphoria: gender dysphoria realted to milk products (cheese, yogurt, milk..).

• Meatdysphoria: gender dysphoria related to meat products.

•Vegedysphoria: gender dysphoria related to vegetables.

•Fruitdysphoria: gender dysphoria related to fruits.

•Cerealdysphoria: gender dysphoria related to cereals.

•Sweetdysphoria: gender dysphoria related to sweetened products.

•Mellowdysphoria: gender dysphoria related to mellow products (cakes, brioches..).

•Drinkdysphoria: gender dysphoria related to drinks.

•Hamburgerdysphoria: gender dysphoria related specificly to hamburgers.

•AppleMorphidysphoria: gender dysphoria related to any food who have an apple-shape.

History
The term have been coined by user Crackorbarck on lgbta wikia on october 11/2021.

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