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description: The inspiration.
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# The story

Dysmorphia collection is created as a result of founder's (Dysmo) inspiration after learning more about spectrum of dysmorphic body image disorders. One part of it was learning of so called "Snapchat Dysmorphia", disorder which got it's name after plastic surgeon noticed that more and more, people who come to their office to ask for changes in their looks, wanted to change to look more like their _"filtered"_ versions from Snapchat.&#x20;

Dysmo thought to herself: all of us in NFT space **represent ourselves through different PFPs & traits** and it became quite normal to us - being an "animal" or "creature". Isn't that also like - becoming someone else?&#x20;

She became interested in creating a collection of people who are becoming _dysmorphic_ in different ways. Each of the characters would be _human in nature_, but some of them were to become more of an animal, more of a certain _human organ_, more of a fruit, more of a chemical reaction etc. She then combined them with regular NFT traits - since that is something which we are all pretty used to in this space.&#x20;

**Houses & Families**\
One of the main highlights of the story is that each of the characters belongs to a House and a Family. Each House represents a direction of changes that will happen to a human, and Family directs it more specifically (explained more in NFTnomics). All the names for Houses and Families come from _**esperanto,**_ the artificial language which we found logical to use in this case when we operate with artificial intelligence to create the images in first place.

As mentioned earlier, the images are made with **AI.** Dysmo is proud and proficient user of Midjourney AI software and is constantly exploring all the new upgrades and possibilities it offers.

**Why do Dysmo NFTs exist?**\
In next page - [here.](purpose)
