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Call me whatever names you wish, but I think this is a much better (and healthier) attitude than “anyone under 18 should never be allowed to see any sexual imagery ever”
(For reference: this was at the Tom of Finland exhibition, containing actual, queer, kinky af pornography. There were definitely some young people there, perhaps in their late teens. There was even a parent with their baby who was probably too young to understand anything at all. And guess what, all those people are probably going to be fine.)
[ID: a sign saying “Please note: there is no age limit, but the exhibition is not recommended for children due to the explicit sexual imagery it contains. Parental or guardian discretion is advised.”]
Hey this is a pretty cool approach maybe we should take that to the Internet instead of trying to invade the privacy of millions of adults because some parents can't parent their kids
respect non-binary people not because this is “a step to realizing they’re really a trans man/trans woman” but because non-binary people are deserving of respect in their identity. because being non-binary is not “just a stepping stone” for many people and they still deserve their identity to be respected.
being non-binary is being trans, and we respect our trans siblings in this house. full stop.
When you have a hammer, every problem looks like it's a nail. And when you have a character, every post looks like it's about them. And that's cause it is! 😊 #wisdom
it's weird how there's this perception of OCD as the "cleanliness" disorder where people still consider OCD behaviors to be like, rooted in some rational and correct (but overshot) trajectory toward objectively sanitary conditions, if that makes any sense? like there was a reddit post about somebody's roommate who had an extremely biohazardous room and a few commenters mentioned that OCD might be a factor based on her other behaviors, and a bunch of non-OCD-havers were like "what??? but it's objectively not clean??? there's so much bacteria in there???"
like idk how to tell you that the disorder gives you disordered thinking. disordered thinking is not rational. and there are absolutely things that trigger 1 person with OCD but do not matter to another, because your OCD can latch on to literally anything.
An aspect of my OCD is contamination OCD, but it's only with very specific things, so if you look at my bedroom, you might not immediately go "oh definitely OCD" bc there's piles of stuff everywhere collecting dust and dirt and cat fur and whatever else. It makes it hard to vacuum or clean anything so it is like objectively dirty. And while I don't love that, I've gotten used to it and just try to ignore it now bc I don't really have another option (I'm not physically well enough to do much about it)
I also don't shower as often as I need to, and again, it does bother me, but due to executive function issues and other mental/physical ailments, it's hard to actually do it. But with that, I do wash my hands often (and in a bit of a disordered way) and I become hyper aware of what my feet and ass come in contact with bc ik they're dirty.
But most of my contamination OCD shows up in things like food (are all the ingredients fresh/not gone bad, was meat cooked properly, was everything sanitized properly, is all the dairy still safe, how long has [x food that is meant to be kept cold] sat out for) or any contact with someone I know is gastrointestinaly sick or close contact with anyone who could potentially be sick and not know it yet.
Also there are lots of arbitrary things with no connection to gastrointestinal illness whatsoever like "this thing is over here when it's meant to be over there" that even though I know there is no correlation or causation whatsoever, I am still convinced that if I don't fix the thing I will get sick bc the universe is watching and it hates me
But also if food gets dropped on the floor, I often don't care and will just eat it (depending on the food or where it landed of course) which doesn't make a whole lot of sense with the other things I said, but again it's literally not meant to. That's what makes it a disorder. If it was reasonable and sensible, it wouldn't be a diagnosis, it would just be the human condition.
Tldr you can be a mess and have OCD and even specifically contamination OCD. It is contradictory but that doesn't make it less real. It's a madness. Madnesses are not meant to make sense.
I’m afraid to go outside, I’m afraid to be inside. I’m afraid to go to sleep, I’m afraid to wake up. I’m afraid to drive, I’m afraid to take a hired car. The only thing I am not afraid to do is be a miserable bastard on the Internet 24/7.
like at least 50% of internet lgbt discourse would evaporate if people quit using the term "spaces" when they mean "discord servers" or "tumblr blogs" because we would collectively realize how stupid that shit is
women are like diamonds: synthetically-produced women are not meaningfully different from naturally-formed women, and anyone trying to tell you otherwise is probably trying to justify keeping their women mines open
