eli5: Cognitive dissonance

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I’ve looked it up, but still feel a little confused

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Irreconcilable conflict between two mutually-exclusive, opposing ideas. Dave Chapple’s [“the world’s only black white supremacist, Clayton Bigsby”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLNDqxrUUwQ) represents this quite comically.

The anxiety related to harboring beliefs incompatible with experience leads to thoughts like, “this isn’t me- i’m not like this,” but forces you to consider, “maybe I am this way.”

Ex: having ‘all the friends in the world’ but having no body come to your party.

Gender dysphoria is the term given to people born into a body they do not identify with. Being a man in a woman’s body, or vice-versa, means society continually reinforces concepts personal identity can not accept. This is why Trans-rights are Human rights.

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