Sneeze Dysphoria [CW: Assumes Viewer is Transfem]

Original art by @monsterologist.bsky.social‬

314 points · 27 comments · view on lemmy.world

27 Comments

undeffeined@lemmy.ml · 47 pts · 1y (2 replies)

My darling old aunt used to sneeze so loud that it would jump scare me on the floor above, while gaming, with headphones. It sounded like lightning crashing down. I miss my Aunt...

lurch@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 1y (1 reply)

After I sneeze in my living room, I can still hear the radiator resonate like a tuning fork.

amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

the radiator: 🗿🚬

ElfBean@fedia.io · 46 pts · 1y

I basically force the sneeze through my front teeth and it kinda works most of the time. Taught myself how when I noticed a girl I sat next to in school sneezed almost silently and I thought it was super cute. Now, coughing and throat-clearing on the other hand... Sounds like I've lived my whole life in a coal mine...

TabbsTheBat@pawb.social · 27 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Real. Everyone says you're not supposed to, but I hold my sneezes cause of this x3

Ziglin@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

What is one supposed to do instead? Hope to have unpackaged tissues available in one's pocketses?

spicystraw@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y

My lovely, beautiful wife usual scares the shit out of me when she sneezes. I have never heard any man go as loud, ever. Some people just have amazing lung capacity and vocal chords!

vermeil@feddit.org · 21 pts · 1y

I, as a cis woman, have the same problem. xD

Nikki@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 1y

if you exhale before the sneeze comes out it makes it cute for some reason

MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 1y (5 replies)

I learned how to sneeze like a girl

TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

i just make a girly sound on backend and hope no one notices

Ziglin@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

But I thought the frontend is what the user sees. Wouldn't this just make it so everyone other than yourself knows?

IndieSpren@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

¿how?

MummysLittleBloodSlut@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y

Make it go higher up in your mouth? I don't know how to describe it

itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

Same, and I haven't even started voice training yet

dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 14 pts · 1y

my larynx goes up high when I sneeze and usually I sound pretty cute, this was actually a problem for me pre-transition

coughing on the other hand, is harder - I always want to open my chest and lungs and cough deeply, which uh, sounds not feminine

pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 1y

Real D=

ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y

My mother sneezes when she's full. So when there's an occasion where people tend to overeat, everyone in the house knows when she reached capacity. It's like barking.

For a while we had a shelter cat who came to us at a later point in his live. And whatever happened to him in the past: when someone sneezed he meowed (not like cute little meow but the ones with the scrungy face). These two gave quite a show every evening, like a very weirs, loud and kinda angry duet

feiras@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y

unfortunately I have my fathers sneeze which means every time I sneeze it registers on the Richter scale halfway across the world... and if I supress the sneeze I feel like my eyeballs will pop out -_-

VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 1y

cis dude i know has the daintiest, high-pitch low volume sneezes. He's a good dad and male role model

we dont choose our traits, but TV/social media sure as fuck has curated a very specific box which we all should 'supposedly' fit in.

Convinient for a certain few who profit from marketing to a particular over-catered-to demographic, no?

Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y (5 replies)

wait is this a real problm?

i thought this is a thing peeps jus do cuz they thinksies its funi... i always sneezed quietly lik: *breathes in* - - - tsch - |. i dun lik it when peeps yell lik - real loud n aggressiv when sneezn. suuu i jus dun do it..

i didn kno peeps actulli hav diffcultis with sneezin without yellin.... im supr vrri srri for u peeps ;(

Foxfire@pawb.social · 12 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yeah it's not for fun, or to intentionally annoy others in public spaces. Those loud sneezes are just the default for how it comes out for some people. Personally I always try to sneeze directly into my elbow, both for sanitary reasons, and also to be less loud in public.

Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 1y

i alsuu sneeze in elbow, jus cuz i dun wana accdentlli spit at peeps >~< thad be uncomf! ;(

n alsuu to be evn quietr. usulli nobody evn notices i sneezd.... which alsuu means peeps dun say "bless u" which i kinda fin a bit sad - - -

unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Im a very loud sneezer and if i suppress the sneeze it actually hurts.

Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 1y

well samsies bt its oki! <3

i get back pain from it ~ ~ ~ <3

Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y

I generally get zero warning for sneezes, and they are always powerful; I'm usually dazed for a good 5-10 seconds after, and trying to hold it back can cause full body aching and pain (or it might hurt even if i don't, sometimes). 😕

Id love it if my entire head wasn't dysfunctional. Deviated septum, tinnitus, photosensitivity + astigmatism, severe year round allergies/excessive mucus production, giant head too big for most hats. At least my teeth aren't bad i guess?

LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

My daughter has always had a weird sneeze pattern of three little coughing sneezes followed by the real one: achoo-achoo-achoo...AAAACHOOO!

One of her friends even made her a button:

Sneeze 1
Sneeze 2
Sneeze 3
BIG SNEEZE