PSY 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Psychosexual Development, Dysphoria
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Find a comfortable place, clothing, set an alarm. Let a distracting thought happen, it"s a cloud floating by. Bring yourself back to the count is the meditation! At the beginning, you probably won"t get to a high number. Very helpful to those with chronic illnesses and stressed out people. There are some sensitive, critical periods for gender identity, sexual orientation. These behaviors can vary greatly individually, culturally. What is considered abnormal is largely cultural. We have a tendency to treat gender as binary. Seems like the whole world is divided in boy/girl! Toy preferences can happen as early as one year old. For mtof 2-30% go on in adulthood. For ftom 15-50% go on in adulthood. These statistics are confusing because many of these children don"t become trans, but rather just are gay, bi, etc. When she first started out, parents would overreact negatively. Now, parents overreact positively: should we change pronouns? .
