[12u3ie]

if you have violent intrusive thoughts I love you. if you have sexual intrusive thoughts I love you. if you have bigoted intrusive thoughts I love you. you are not your thoughts and you are worthy of love and care and help and affection. you are not a monster you’re a person going through it and that’s okay

[schizotypalpd-culture-is]

Schizospec culture is genuinely enjoying your loss of touch with 'reality' and not knowing how to explain this.

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[schizospec-culture-is]

Schizospec culture is your friends and loved ones insisting to you they would never do anything to harm you, but you can never believe them

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[fibro-memes]

[itbitesthehand]

lmao guess who's going throoooough iiiiiiiiiiit

[volgin]

every holocaust memorial day, i always ask people to keep romani people in their thoughts, but this year i’d like to clear up some misconceptions that i see every year w/ a psa

romani people are not white. we’re south asian (from northern india), and each subgroup has a unique racial makeup of asian/white/etc, in different amounts. this is also why we vary wildly in physical appearance/skintone

we still face oppression. what we face, especially in europe, can still be constituted as attempted genocide, as we’re forced to live in hazardous conditions or to give away our children, be sterilized, etc just for the crime of being roma

the ‘g slur’ isn’t just an american issue. the reason some european roma prefer the slur is because, in many countries, there is no term for roma that isn’t a slur, and it’s either the g slur or the literal translation of the n word. i’m romanian, and if you used the slur in my hometown, you’d get slapped, since we just use ‘roma’.

we live in every continent across the world. some of the largest romani populations exist in south america, predominantly in brazil. they are no more and no less roma than their european counterparts, and they, like romani in asia, africa, etc all face unique challenges and oppression.

we’re the largest ethnic minority in europe, and yet have almost no political power, no land ownership power (in some places, we’re forbidden from owning land entirely), etc. with very few reputable charities- a lot of us reject charity by principle, as well as there being a general lack of education about us- the best thing you can do to help romani people is to just spread information, and help individuals when you can.

[jewish-privilege]

Today, August 2, 2020, is Rroma Holocaust Memorial Day. On this day in 1944, 2,897 Rromani people were killed in the Z*geunerfamilienlager, or G*psy family camp, in the Auschwitz concentration camp complex. We remember them.

[itbitesthehand]

I mean this in the nicest possible way but

It's not just them. It is them, but it's not just them. Gorja want every excuse to forget us and our pain. Please show them the numbers, because we can't show them their names. Remember them, the 2,897, but don't ever let the 200,000-500,000 estimated people who were also murdered be forgotten.

Today, 2nd August 2023, is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. Please remember them all.

[itbitesthehand]

I've started doing this thing (or at least I've started to notice myself doing this thing) where I just kinda idk daydream so hard I fall asleep? It's not like my normal fatigue, I'm not exhausted but awake and alarmingly aware of how I can't move, I'm peacefully drifting off to sleep as a daydream ramps up in its vividness until I'm actually just dreaming, and this only takes (or feels like it takes) a few minutes. I'll be having a regular daydream while wide awake, and then suddenly I'm on the cusp of sleep. I'd chalk it up to another facet of my fatigue if it wasn't SUCH a different sensation. I should probably be concerned about this but I don't even know where to start

[disabilityreminders]

You know what? My disability does hold me back! I'm sick of pretending it doesn't because society only thinks we're worthy if we're actively trying to "overcome" our disabilities or that we "defy the odds". I'm sick of hearing "you can do anything you put your mind to" because that's just not true and is often invalidating of the struggles disabled people face.

I am worthy either way, regardless of whether I can contribute in a way that society deems acceptable or not.

The same applies to you! You are worthy if you can't drive, can't finish school, can't work a conventional job. You are worthy if you can't live on your own without help. You are worthy if you'll need assistance for the rest of your life. You are worthy, always.

[myalgicencephalomyelitiscfstom]

[itbitesthehand]

Not tumblr putting some "narc abuse" defender on my dash bc of a followed tag 💀💀

[psychotic-culture-is]

Psychotic culture is people not believing you can have hallucinations that comfort you.

[schizotypal-culture-is]

Stpd culture is mistaking your own body parts for someone else’s when you’re alone and especially in mirrors— like “Shit, who’s hand was that?” *repeats the exact motion you just made for reality testing* “Oh, wait, that’s mine lol. Never mind, we’re all good.”

[crippledaro]

Reminder to fellow disabled people that it is okay to be upset or angry at yourself and your body for being disabled.

It is okay to grieve and mourn the movement and health you have lost over the years.

It is okay to believe that you are ‘too disabled’ to live a proper life.

It is okay and normal to have these thoughts about your disabilities, but they should not stop you from living the best life you can, and fighting for yourself and other disabled people.

[itbitesthehand]

In the euphoria of getting concert tickets for the first time ever, I completely forgot about the whole "standing for long periods of time makes my joints implode" thing and now idk what I'm going to do ha haaaaaaaaa

[schizotypal-culture-is]

stpd culture is relating to posts about schizophrenia for years but feeling like yours was never “severe” enough to be that so you just called yourself psychotic for years until you stumbled upon the description of stpd and was shocked at how accurate it was to everything you experience

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[psychotic-culture-is]

Psychotic culture is trying to explain to someone that believing a delusion and knowing it’s a delusion are not contradictory beliefs.

[genderkoolaid]

can't believe im willingly bringing this discourse back to my blog but like. after reading the accounts of people who have BIID and their thoughts on themselves, and also reading what very little research has been done on people who actually have gotten limbs removed that suggests it genuinely does help their dysphoria. it's annoying to hear someone defend trans people's desire to get perfectly healthy genitalia cut off, and then when it comes to a person with BIID seeking surgery, go "clearly this guy needed Psychiatric Help to get his Wrong Urges Fixed." ik it's taboo to ever act like people w BIID could EVER be even SLIGHTLY similar to trans people because god forbid people associate us good moral trannies with FREAKS, but like. you can't say that one person wanting a healthy organ removed for no other reason that "it feels wrong" deserves to have their autonomy respected, but another person with similar feelings doesn't

[genderkoolaid]

i brought this up in the tags but also its interesting to me that "transabled" now evokes, for a lot of people on tumblr, "people who say they have autism/bpd/schizophrenia and harass disabled people," but it was coined by someone with BIID to give them a word to describe themselves that didn't focus on suffering or being a "wannabe." Which makes sense- I'm sure most trans people wouldn't want to be referred to as "Gender Identity Dysphoria Sufferers."

& it kind of saddens me that there's so much hostility and limited discussion around this. Even people who agree with "people should have full bodily autonomy" tend to talk about BIID exclusively in the sense of "these people have a neurological condition and medication can't fix them so surgery is probably the most compassionate way to alleviate their suffering," which is definitely better than "you're crazy and need to be locked up," but... well. It mirrors the way that trans* people were pathologized, & how for a long time the only way we got sympathy was "trans people are basically born with a birth defect and since medication can't fix them, surgery is the most compassionate way to alleviate their suffering." But now, we see that as a very limited perspective that views being trans* as an inherently lesser way of being, that comes from being broken- rather than a way of being that's neutral and, while it can involve suffering, especially when we are mistreated, transness is more than suffering.

Like there's this post on the archived transabled.org website, written by a woman named Lily 2 months after she got her leg amputated. And oh my god, she has so much joy. She describes her new body and new way of moving with so much love. On the subject of how people see her now that she is an amputee, she wrote "I think they see a very happy, bouncy person with a whole new look on things and certainly someone who fights to get things done." Its impossible to read "I have no words to describe the happiness in which I live each day since the surgery" and not see the comparisons to post-op trans people's experiences.

Like. Isn't it a radical statement to say that a disabled body is not ugly or tragic, and its not even something you "have to learn to live with" because there's no other option... it can be preferred over a "normal" "perfect" body! Even if BIID could be "cured" without surgery, whose to say everyone would want a cure? I just don't think BIID/transability should be relegated to the same position trans people were in, where we had to present ourselves as tragic victims of incorrect minds. Tbh I feel like trans* activism has a responsibility to support people who pursue voluntary amputation, paralysis, blindness, deafness, and not try to distance ourselves from them, as if our weird brain/body shit is somehow inherently more normal.