Body and social incongruence

This is a questionnaire that asks you about your relationship with your physical form and how you are perceived by other people. Some questions mention suicidality, most are overall depressive.Questions on this list refer to irrational discomfort, dysmorphia and dysphoria, as well as aesthetic preferences. If your only reason to want some kind of a change is removing material obstacles to a successful life, answer "no".

Identities and body

  1. Would you feel more comfortable with a gender, different from the one you were assigned?

  2. Would you feel more comfortable with sex characteristics, different from the ones you physically have?

  3. Would you feel more comfortable with a different sexual/romantic orientation?

  4. Would you feel more comfortable with an age, different from your chronological one?

  5. Would you feel more comfortable having disorders, disabilities, or neurodivergencies you do not physically have, or removing the ones you do have?

  6. Would you feel more comfortable with an ethnicity, different from the one you inherited?

  7. Would you feel more comfortable with hair color, texture, or amount/distribution different from the one you physically have?

  8. Would you feel more comfortable with different facial features?

  9. Would you feel more comfortable with a different eye color?

  10. Would you feel more comfortable with a different skin color or texture?

  11. Would you feel more comfortable with a different amount of body fat?

  12. Would you feel more comfortable with a different height?

  13. Would you feel more comfortable with different body proportions (leg/torso ratio, fat distribution)?

  14. Would you feel more comfortable with more or fewer muscles?

  15. Would you feel more comfortable with inner organs, somehow different from the ones you currently have (not including sex characteristics)?

  16. Would you feel more comfortable with a different voice or accent?

  17. Would you feel more comfortable if you had some character traits you don't believe to have?

  18. Would you feel more comfortable as a nonhuman species?

  19. Would you feel more comfortable with some features that are considered physically impossible (e.g., wings, claws, laser eyes, no body shape at all)?

  20. Would you feel more comfortable with a name, different from the one most people use for you?

  21. Would you feel more comfortable with a birthday date, different from your calendar one?

Behavior and presentation

  1. Do you try to obscure some of your parameters (e.g., by saying a different age online or not disclosing your assigned gender) for reasons, unrelated to safety?

  2. Do you have an online persona you are attached to, with identities, different from the ones you claim offline?

  3. Do you feel like the behavior people expect from you is not natural, and if you were to act the way you want, people would consider it out of character?

  4. Do you feel like you cannot present the way you want, because people would find it odd or funny?

  5. Do you feel like you are lacking mental qualities, necessary for acting the way you want, making choices and statements you'd like?

  6. Is the lifestyle you want associated with some social group you are not perceived as?

  7. Do people give you fashion or lifestyle tips that are aimed at enhancing features you are uncomfortable with?

  8. Do people make well-meaning comments about your looks, age, social status that are nevertheless upsetting, because these qualities of yours are not what you want them to be?

  9. Do you feel like the social group/groups you want to belong to will not see you as one of their own, because the reasons why you want to be included are not visible to them?

  10. Do you daydream about having different looks, psychological type, or social status?

  11. Would you risk your health or life stability for the sake of a change?

  12. Do you want to pursue any kind of a social or physical transition, related to minimizing the mismatch between your current self and your ideal self?

  13. Do you feel a strong sense of connection to a particular person, character, concept, to the point of identifying with them?

  14. Do you feel like it takes you extra time and careful word choice to get your point across, because people keep assuming you couldn't mean what you actually meant and interpreting you incorrectly?

  15. Has anyone ever accused you of appropriating another group's identities and struggles (e.g. of fetishizing gay men as a woman)?

  16. Has anyone ever accused you of internalized bigotry (e.g. internalized misogyny, racism) because of your unwillingness to associate with social groups, assigned to you?

  17. Do you avoid mirrors, because seeing your physical body upsets or disappoints you?

Feelings

  1. Does the prospect of continuing your life the way that is expected from you cause you a sense of dread and hopelessness?

  2. Do you feel like nobody sees the real you behind your physical body?

  3. Do you feel like you cannot function as a member of the society, because there is no niche you could fill comfortably?

  4. Do you feel like your life is not worth living, because you cannot be perceived the way you need?

  5. Does people's reaction to your attempts at drawing boundaries and making yourself comfortable make you feel like they treat your body, health, and identities like public property?

  6. Do you go through periods of self hate and disappointment in yourself, because you cannot be who you wish to be?

  7. Has the mismatch between your inner and outer selves made you suicidal?

The maximal total number you can have is 45. I, the maker of this questionnaire, have 28, and I consider my experiences to be on the severe side. A person I chose for my control group of "normal" people scored as low as 5. More detailed score descriptions will be added as I continue working on this questionnaire.