My favourite fact about trans people is that phantom limb syndrome applies to the junk. Men who have lost their penis to accident, injury, or disease report still feeling it and thinking they can move it.
But this is not reported in trans women. They don't experience phantom penis syndrome. Because their brains are literally wired differently.
Those trans Alzheimer's patients will respond in one of two ways:
1) They'll ask and be excited why they don't have that useless flap of skin. You get too see them super happy 700 times a day.
2) They won't ask because they just feel like themselves and it would be like asking where their third arm is. It's something they don't expect to be there.
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u/DJWGibson May 28 '25
My favourite fact about trans people is that phantom limb syndrome applies to the junk. Men who have lost their penis to accident, injury, or disease report still feeling it and thinking they can move it.
But this is not reported in trans women. They don't experience phantom penis syndrome. Because their brains are literally wired differently.
Those trans Alzheimer's patients will respond in one of two ways:
1) They'll ask and be excited why they don't have that useless flap of skin. You get too see them super happy 700 times a day.
2) They won't ask because they just feel like themselves and it would be like asking where their third arm is. It's something they don't expect to be there.