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I've been dealing with gender dysphoria since about age 5. When I was trying to repress it, I tended to have "episodes" characterised by increasingly extreme dysphoria that occurred about every three years. The few people I've talked to for whom this applies have generally said that gender dysphoria gets worse as life goes on. Is this true? I mean, obviously people for whom this *isn't* true aren't going to be in this community at all, but did it happen any other way for anyone else? Did it cycle? Stay about the same always? Get a little better?