I'm dadt and don't know where I fall in with the definitions but I know what I think and feel when something catches my eye and triggers the desire to dig into my girly clothes or take a long bath and shave all over. Recent examples, first one is that many years ago while I was still working my wife used to work part time jobs and/or create small home businesses. She had stopped doing that for many years and recently decided to start buying and selling again. Mostly china pieces, jewelry, anything she can clean up and flip that has some profit margin. Anyways, I have done digital photography and graphics for many years so I was tasked with resizing and editing her first batch of photos. Her recent jewelry purchase was about the equivalent of a half a five gallon bucket so there were a lot of photos. Give a CD a few hundred photos of bracelets, necklaces, earrings to stare at for a couple hours, what could possibly go wrong?
Another recent incident was that I purchased a new cell phone a couple months ago and had to go to the kiosk at one of the department stores to flip my account over to the new phone. We had to go past the ladies department and right on the end of the isle was the perfect dress that I absolutely knew would have been perfect for me after only one glance. As a dadt I am limited in how I can react when those triggers hit me between the eyes so it can be kind of a frustrating experience but I've been a CD for over 60 years since my first introduction to crossdressing as if the first effects of puberty weren't enough for me to unpack so I'm used to dealing with the frustration which has been stronger than ever this past few months.
Without getting into definitions or debating degrees of dysphoria all I can say is that it's a very real thing and it can happen regardless of which rung of the crossdressing ladder we are at.