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A Closed and Common Orbit, the sequel to The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (which I mentioned a little while ago), has some powerful writing on dysphoria. One of the main characters is an AI named Sidra. She's designed to be housed in a ship, but due to the plot events of the first book, she chooses to leave the ship and be housed in a human body "kit."
Predictably, she has a shit-tonne of dysphoria about this, and I'm having some Major Feels. In the part I just read, she finally removes her honesty protocol - something that'd been bothering her basically since the beginning. The scene afterwards where she giddily tests out her new powers of dishonesty was very touching. It reminded me a lot of gender euphoria - my first thought was "ME, after I finally get bottom surgery."
Predictably, she has a shit-tonne of dysphoria about this, and I'm having some Major Feels. In the part I just read, she finally removes her honesty protocol - something that'd been bothering her basically since the beginning. The scene afterwards where she giddily tests out her new powers of dishonesty was very touching. It reminded me a lot of gender euphoria - my first thought was "ME, after I finally get bottom surgery."
