modern day cassandra

pheonix / he/it / dysautonomia + HSD + other mysterious undiagnosed things + psychotic + traumatized + plural + autistic in the DD way / antipsych and cripplepunk sideblog

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

just gonna go ahead and make a pinned now so it’s not a problem later.

name’s nix or jinx. i’m a pissed-off autistic psychotic cripple cockroach dyke in a traumagenic plural system. we don’t have DID or OSDD, don’t be a dick about it. this is A Sideblog so don't expect much activity.

general vibes around here

anti-psychiatry

cripplepunk

anarchism

prison and school abolition

radical freedom of expression

radical self-determination

anti-censorship

pro-weird, pro-kinky, pro-freak, pro-contradicting-identity-labels, pro-gutters-of-society, pro-speaking-in-tongues, pro-self-induced-visions

if you’re not down to clown with an absolute fucking freak who kins the gutterotica manifesto, don’t follow.

air filtration makes spaces more accessible than masking does, ask me how! (or read this ask where i give a quick-and-dirty rundown.)

other system members sometimes post on this blog, we don’t really tag names much, sorry for the confusion but we’re just as confused as you are.

if i’m psychoticposting, you’re welcome <3

[segamascott]

[dadpilled]

Jokes aside, this recall was issued for WA/OR/ID and the affected brands are Royale Natural and TOP VALU. More info in linked article.

[extreme-dyke-syndrome]

Me when my able-bodied friends walk too fast

[creekfiend]

I've been trying to think of a way to lay this out for a while bc it is the #1 most common concern that I see expressed by people who are uncertain about antipsychiatry, like, by far, and it requires a sort of perspective reframe that can be hard for me to put words to. I've had like three ppl express some of these concerns in the last couple days alone, some of them good friends (hi Alex!) and I wanted to just make a public post about it, bc I think it trips a lot of people up.

People will ask me: how can I be antipsychiatry when I rely on the psychiatric system to obtain care? How can I oppose something on which I rely to stay alive? Which I think is really understandable, given the somewhat misleading name of the movement (and there's several names for it already, none of which really are illuminating to people outside those circles, which I think is a big communication problem. But I digress.)

When I say I am advocating for the abolition of psychiatry, I'm not saying I want to abolish access to care. What I am saying is that I want to abolish the institution of psychiatry as the gatekeeper of that care. Currently that's the only way you can access the care you need, and that's a huge part of the problem! It's like... of course it would be incoherent to say "you can't be anticapitalist if you rely on corporations to survive," because of course the system is designed so that we must rely on it.

So what I am advocating for is the replacement of psychiatry as the sole avenue of care with other models, models which prioritize autonomy and remove hierarchy and coercive control. Peer respite in place of involuntary institutionalization, informed consent models of acquiring medications rather than forcing people to go through medical gatekeepers who hold enormous power over them and largely do not see them as real people, etc. There are many, many forms that proposed alternative ways to access care can take.

I get it! I also take meds. I also have to rely on the systems that hurt me. For me, being antipsych is about saying "it is fucked up that we are forced to rely on these harmful, hierarchical systems to access care. We deserve something humane. We deserve to be the ones in control of our own treatment. We deserve to have our autonomy valued and protected and prioritized." Psychiatry does not offer us these things, and its structure at the core ultimately prevents it from doing so, due to its hierarchical nature & inherent power imbalances. This is broadly applicable to many of our current systems, and saying so is not the same as making an argument that we should simply not have any systems at all.

[tomato-puppy]

this is a pretty good explanation of what the movement is (and finally someone acknowledged that the term is very misleading)

the thing is that, the institution is also responsible for certifying the therapists and compiling the knowledge and monitoring medication research and all that... and the hierarchical component is embedded into this because it's also baked into research and scientific/medical academia... it would require a profound reform to change the way medical academia and the whole healthcare establishment works

[creekfiend]

yup! and the rest of academia too!

[gendernihilistanarchocommunist]

Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets (1971), dir. Shūji Terayama

[babylon-butterfly]

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

midodrine weed caffeine and propranolol fighting for dominance in my body like shonen protagonists

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

is it still a meltdown (autism) if it's just in response to not being able to regulate your emotions? growing up in behavioral therapy i was always sort of led to only think about meltdowns as tied to sensory or functional overwhelm.

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

update: thanks yall i have been thinking about myself in some weird internalized-ableist ways because of the intense social shame around developmental disability increasing as i get older and i have forgotten a lot of basic autism knowledge that i knew or had an instinct for like ten years ago

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

is it still a meltdown (autism) if it's just in response to not being able to regulate your emotions? growing up in behavioral therapy i was always sort of led to only think about meltdowns as tied to sensory or functional overwhelm.

[creekfiend]

there's also this cycle that keeps disabled people isolated socially:

my needs are higher than it is socially appropriate to ask someone to meet when you dont know them well -> i don't know the people running any given organization or program or class at all; i am a stranger to them -> asking for what i need is punished bc it is seen as rude, bossy, or entitled -> this is so aversive to me that i simply stop trying to participate in anything.

like

we've all been there! this physical and social isolation is IMPOSED BY ABLEISM

[ralfmaximus]

At last, a pill that can prevent COVID after exposure to infected people

Drug arrives years after pandemic’s peak, but could still offer protection to vulnerable populations.

An antiviral pill has, for the first time, been shown to prevent COVID-19 in people exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus at home, according to trial results published today in the New England Journal of Medicine1. The drug could be a lifeline for those who still face real danger from the virus, such as care-home residents or transplant recipients on immune-suppressing medication.

There are good things happening in the world.

[meret118]

You can read about it here without a paywall.

Households exposed to COVID-19 now have an oral drug specifically cleared to prevent infection after contact with a sick person. The FDA listed Xocova, the brand name for ensitrelvir, as a 2026 novel drug approval for post-exposure prophylaxis of COVID-19 following contact with an infected individual. The decision fills a gap that has persisted since the pandemic’s early years: until now, no oral antiviral carried an FDA-approved indication for prevention rather than treatment.

[vampire-loving-vampire]

I hate that not understanding something or getting confused or mixed up is always moralized . like no its not because I "wasn't reading" or "not paying attention" or I "don't care" or on purpose . I just have brain damage etc but that's usually seen as an excuse 🫠🫠 be nicer to intellectually disabled people !!!!! be patient , be understanding , but whatever u do don't minimize their symptoms as some kind of intentional incompetence or having a cold heart . misunderstandings are just that , not a secret signal into someone's malicious plan to feign disability for .... no reason ?

[chronicbitchsyndrome]

how to stop knees from subluxing overnight (in sleep), serious question, i have a little money if the answer is braces but idk how to choose them

[billymayslesbian]

i really need people to be so fucking careful in and around discussions of literacy because stuff like "this culture didn't develop a written language ergo they are mentally inferior to us" and "people with this disability are unable to read ergo they are mentally inferior to us" have been eugenicist talking points for a very long time

[ciaran]

Against Manualized Relating

analysis is dead. long live analysis

kind of shoddily written but articulates [things] for me that were first (?) articulated in a conversation with my friend who is a reporter. describes an ongoing drift in my own way of thinking about myself and others.

[bebsi-cola]

happy disability pride to unemployed and unemployable people only

[librarycards]

the thing about talking to people about psychiatric abuse is that you quickly learn that there are dozens and dozens of ppl around you who experienced unspeakable trauma at the hands of the psych industry in all its iterations and we just walk through the world inundated by messages re: carceral 'recovery' and 'healing' and 'wellness' silent and sucking ourselves in & choking back the memory of what we endured and feeling as though we're alone, truly alone, lacking even the last names of the people we suffered alongside, but we're literally everywhere, all we need to do is reach out and touch each other