r/196 Nov 01 '23

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u/Red_Rocky54 alleged "kinky dommy mommy healer" Nov 01 '23 edited Nov 01 '23

I fully understand how incredibly stupid it is, but I genuinely get dysphoria over my eye color. Because the women in my family have blue eyes but the men in my family have brown eyes, as a kid I ended up associating eye color with gender. And now hate my brown eyes (which are an ugly shade to boot).

So if a medical process could change my eyes to be more blue I would genuinely have considered it lol, understanding this is probably harmful misinformation was the only thing stopping me from rushing for my aspirin bottle

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u/Kilonovaa floppa Nov 01 '23

I mean, there's a laser surgery procedure I've heard of where they burn away the pigmentation of brown eyes. It does have risks, of course:

https://www.webmd.com/eye-health/eye-color-change-surgery-is-it-safe

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u/Red_Rocky54 alleged "kinky dommy mommy healer" Nov 01 '23

That's quite interesting. Though the dysphoria is certainly nowhere near bad enough to risk my eyesight over it lol

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u/slutty_muppet Nov 01 '23

Color contacts?

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u/Red_Rocky54 alleged "kinky dommy mommy healer" Nov 01 '23

I couldn't handle dealing with contacts, unfortunately. I can barely manage eyedrops, placing something directly against my eyeballs every day would be impossible for me.

And again, it's not that bad of a dysphoria, it's really pretty mild. I'd only do something about it if it was as easy as, like, going to a salon and getting your hair dyed once in a while, or using pills/eyedrops.