I think what I experience emotionally whenever animals/nature gets brought up with ""normal people"" may qualify as rejection sensitive dysphoria. I feel despised and scorned for being myself in a way that others commonly consider disturbing and won't budge on

"Don't kill a spider" met with horror and confusion like I just said "pee in my shoes please" "A snake I saw at the pet store was cute" seems to go across to ppl around me like "I love smearing pig blood on my arms" And I just get extremely personally raw and down when this happens

& I mentioned I have some dead animal mementos and the entire family I was talking to made a joke that I should be psychologically institutionalized

I know its easier said than done for some people but I tend to mock people back in situations like this. And when they get offended I hit em with some variant of, "AH so you can dish it out but not take it, OK~".

It seems to be considered common, healthy, & normal where I live to kill all snakes on sight, and the thought of this or being near this situation makes me viscerally upset and terrified and No One is considerate of this beyond seeing it as some sort of infantile misplaced sympathy