I find myself both agreeing and disagreeing with "Carbon Dysphoria".

for me, transitioning has solved the immediate "I fucking hate it when people refer to me as a guy, who I am not" problem, but didn't change much of anything else.

I don't enjoy eating food in the way the rest of this society does it (I just eat the ~same thing every day), I'm aroace, and while there's quite a few books and media I have opinions on, lately I've shied away from the ones that are particularly emotionally provoking: my life has been emotionally provoking enough all on its own, without external stimuli

however, I have never been a fan of existing as 'pure intelligence'. not only is there good evidence that intelligence must be embodied, but also I've always been intensely connected to the material world: I've been more proud of my achievements with computer hardware, electronics, chemistry, machining, and so on more so than I've been proud of my achievements in software (and the latter have mostly served to fuel the former). furthermore, in today's world it is more important than ever that all of us remember that both us and our enemies have blood and bones and flesh, for this flesh is the cornerstone of power.

what I haven't been particularly connected with is my body. to me it's just a tool. food is just fuel; it is better that I like it (so that I actually, you know, eat) but I'm not into it to the extent to which I've seen people be into kink.

and I don't think there's anything so wrong with this that it is indicative of underlying pathology ("dysphoria"). nor do I want to change it. I think the obsession people can have with food is as strange and alienating as the obsession with sex; and as someone who's been coerced into eating food others thought was good, I think the results of it are pretty gross, too.