a speck in the infinite universe

Hello I'm Avery. 19. they/them. ISFP. Animal Rights Activist. Polypuff. I like trees, cats, giraffes, whales and tea.

[marioclash]

christians: god is formless, god can come across as anyone or anything

person: god might be a woman

christians:

[traumaticchild]

when my parents get mad at me for traits they have 

[silverhawk]

but the good news is:

[princesstigerbelle]

What about:

[deletingmyself]

[sexycraisinthanos]

All the gays right now

[sexycraisinthanos]

I posted this at 12 am with no tags how did you guys find this are you ok

[encourage]

University: I have made a graduate.

Student Counsellor: You've ruined a perfectly good young adult, is what you've done. Look at it. It's got anxiety.

[cutekittensarefun]

[filmaticbby]

u know that feeling when you’ve just showered, you get in to bed, ur room is clean and tidy and u just feel safe and soft and everything is okay

[amelie-poirier-deactivated20220]

So here’s a little witch, sleeping after a long day of practice and learning ! 

[levalseduvieux]

Kelsey Smith

[lcsingstars-moved]

how to know if tumblr has been eating your asks: send yourself anywhere between 5-10 asks, ( anon or not ) but have each ask be nothing but an order in which you sent them.

i.e: the first ask says ‘1′, the second says ‘2′, etc etc.

i sent myself ten of these, both on anon and not. This was all i received back:

Tumblr is now eating asks along with notifications. We must be more interactive than ever if we want keep this form of entertainment we call the rpc. Go ahead and warn your friends or test this for yourselves.. This post is reblogable.

[faunafemes]

I just sent myself five of these. none of them came through.

[thedogandthewitch-deactivated20]

I just did this myself last night and out of the ten ask I sent myself only one came through.

Please know if I’m not responding to you, your ask, or your messages, I am not willingly ignoring you. I am however doing my best to try and stay in contact with everyone.

[sanderssidecanons]

sorry to everyone who tagged me or sent me an ask. If I didn’t react to it, tumblr didn’t show me.

[rechords-moved]

no offense but i want every little kid to be safe and have a good childhood

[annnsunn]

[moonry]

katy perry means nothing to me but teenage dream is always gonna slap

[herbalfaun]

Are you ever just like wow I’d take care of you and care about you so hard

[vxixxvii]

i miss that feeling when the sun hits your skin and everything feels so still and warm and soft i want spring

[closet-keys]

I hate Freud. His whole weird theory about penis envy and children being sexually attracted to their parents and secret desires and all that shit actually came straight out of an attempt to ally himself with wealthy and influential rapists and was a direct form of victim blaming.

He had started the research looking into “hysteria” which at the time was really usually referring to women’s symptoms of PTSD. It turned out that the reason so many woman had these symptoms is because so many of them had experienced sexual violence– especially CSA and incest at the hands of their fathers. 

At first he was making real progress, and it was through working with these women that he discovered that talk therapy could be used to treat trauma. The symptoms of PTSD were lessened when women were able to safely speak about their experiences out loud and be believed. 

But it wasn’t the women who paid for the therapy. It was their fathers, husbands, the same men who were perpetuating the violence in the first place. And Freud didn’t want to validate his patients (the women) if it meant making his clients (the men) unhappy.

So he came up with a new idea. These symptoms weren’t from trauma. The memories weren’t real. These women were just sexual beings as children and had penis envy and it made them lust for their fathers and fantasize about the rape that they had reported to him. That’s where the shittiest parts of Freud’s theories emerged. Another part of it besides just the monetary aspect, though, was that there was a feminist movement on the fringes starting up at the time and by publishing work about women’s CSA he would be aligning himself with it and therefore losing support, respect, funding, prestige from his male peers and from the psychological community at large. He literally made that gross victim blaming shit up to keep his own reputation with these fucks and to make sure he still got publication and fame.

By coming up with fake theory about little girls fantasizing about incest he not only fucked over generations of women, the feminist movement that was arising, and the entire psychology field for years to come, but he also completely swept away any progress made in understanding trauma and so we didn’t have any clue why men coming back from war had “hysteria” like women during WWI.

And our research on PTSD and trauma is still lacking to this day, especially because of the stigma that maybe traumatized people deserved it or wanted it or imagined it. People don’t want to believe it’s real. Perpetrators of traumatic violence want everyone to forget about it, not acknowledge it, or trivialize it.

And they have Freud’s cultural legacy to help them.

[vetivervelvetviolet]

Can you provide academic citations for this? This is really neat.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0959353596062015

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959353596062015

If you don’t have access bc paywall, here’s a decent summary on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Freudian_Coverup

Some vague proof:’

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/24/science/freud-secret-documents-reveal-years-of-strife.html?pagewanted=all&mcubz=0

An essay on the topic:

http://socialistreview.org.uk/404/whats-wrong-sigmund-freud

If you want some more, just google, “Sigmund Freud Seduction Theory Problematic.” There’s lots of academic and non-academic discussion on the topic, but TLDR Sigmund Freud is basically disregarded in almost all aspects of psychology by anyone who actually cares about their patients, so fuck that guy for holding psychology back.

[thewesterwoman]

Words cannot express how much I hate Freud. His theories have been entirely disproven by current psychological research, but using him to interpret works of literature is still a widely accepted technique in the field of literary studies today.

English departments across the country will not bat an eye at tenured professors bringing Freud into lectures and citing him in scholarly articles and books. Doing a “Freudian reading” of a literary character or theme is regarded as a valid means of understanding and drawing meaning from works by authors as diverse as William Shakespeare, James Joyce, and C.S. Lewis. And it is based entirely on this guy’s unbelievably sexist, flat-out fraudulent, and thoroughly disproven research. It’s insane.