life outside singularity

a blog for the exploration of life as an autist with DID.

[staticnoisesss]

how you can help palestine

*i regularly update this post with any new info i find so please always reblog the original post*

Donations

donations currently reaching gaza:

‼️ help buy e-sims for people in gaza

donate to get food packages to gaza - care for gaza

donate direct aid to gaza - ehab rida (longtime activist and volunteer, has been carrying out donations and humanitarian projects in gaza since 2021)

palestine children's relief fund

world food programme

aid to gaza - taawon/bank of palestine

help gaza’s children

female hygiene kits for gaza - pious project

donate to UNRWA

urgent humanitarian aid to palestinians - anera

medical aid for palestinians

urgent support for medical professionals in gaza

gaza evacs and prosthetics - raindove (link to donations in their bio)

donate to ahmed (@/90-ghost on tumblr)

he is born, raised and based in gaza. please help him reach his goal of $50K to get his family to safety across the rafah border into egypt. as of right now… it’s $7.5K per person to evacuate gaza.

help journalist yousef escape gaza to treat his cancer

help mohamed evacuate gaza to get treatment for himself and his daughter

support palestinians: buy a keffiyeh from the last and only factory in palestine - hirbawi

secondary donations:

click to donate - arab.org

emergency relief for gaza - pious projects

palestine red crescent society

save palestine - islamic relief canada

send medical supplies to gaza - palestinian american medical association

help bring down israel's weapon trade - palaction

donate for the recovery of hisham awartani

one of the three palestinian students shot by a racist in vermont for wearing kufiyas and speaking arabic. hisham’s injuries have left him paralysed from below the chest.

Petitions

‼️ urge icj to invite gazan journalists to testify

international cultural workers to strike from german cultural institutions for their complicity in oppressing palestinians and promoting genocide - strike germany

petition to investigate war crimes committed by israeli military

demand ceasefire - amnesty international

open call for immediate ceasefire

american government call for immediate ceasefire

american government to stop funding israeli military

ceasefire and increase humanitarian assistance - oxfam au

petition to get canva to address their pro-israel stance

invoke the genocide convention to call for ceasefire in gaza - world beyond war

suspend israel from international sports - diem25

UK to expel israeli ambassador - change.org

gaza healthcare workers for nobel peace prize - change.org

teachers around the world demand ceasefire - teachers for palestine

president whitten: reinstate samia halaby retrospective NOW - action network

demand the immediate release of mansour shouman

location specific petitions

gaza call for lasting ceasefire - oxfam (UK)

end israeli occupation - parliament uk (UK)

email your MP - medical aid for palestine (UK)

protect gaza civilians - islamic relief (UK)

stop fuelling genocide - action network (USA)

@ biden: call for ceasefire now - move on (USA)

ceasefirenow.com - jewishvoiceofpeace (USA)

call congress and demand a ceasefire - uscpr (USA - they provide a script of what you should say, so don't worry about it)

note: you can call everyday. they tally the number of calls per issue. so more calls = higher chance for them to take action. p.s. you mainly go to voicemail so don’t worry about phone call anxiety. fight through it just this once please.

no forced displacement! - action network

australia call on israel to stop attacking palestinians - apan (AUS)

immediate ceasefire and increase in humanitarian aid in gaza - actionaid (AUS)

email your MPs - stand with palestine (AUS)

‼️ australian senate to investigate australian citizens in the IDF for war crimes allegations - fpm (AUS)

‼️ arms embargo on israel - cjpme (CANADA)

sign to send letter to MP for ceasefire - nccm (CANADA)

ceasefire now! - ijv (CANADA)

call on your local mayor and council to demand ceasefire - LeadNow (CANADA)

cessez-le-feu et un couloir humanitaire - le mouvement (FRANCE)

écrivez aux député-es et sénateurs-trices - association france palestine solidarité (FRANCE)

write to your député - assemblée nationale (FRANCE)

skydda civilbefolkningen i gaza! - mittskifte (SWEDEN)

singaporeans call for immediate ceasefire (SIN)

contact your elected reps and demand a ceasefire (GERMANY)

write to the EU demanding a ceasefire (EUROPE)

template of letters you can send (EU)

guide on how to contact your MPs in EU

p.s. if the template is outdated, just use it as a guide and add a few sentences here and there that reflect the current situation. i can’t find any recent templates so :/ at least this is something

multiple actions you can take to help palestine - plant een olifbloom (NETHERLANDS)

includes: links for donations, emails to MP, emails to media, links to petitions and demonstrations

den haag, maak nú werk van vrede in israël/Palestina - the right forum (NETHERLANDS)

māori call for palestine - ourActionStation (NZ)

deem israeli actions as war crimes - NZ parliament/pāremata aotearoa (NZ)

basta ao genocídio em Gaza! - awaaz (BRAZIL)

globo e grande mídia, parem de desumanizar civis palestinos - the intercept (BRAZIL)

manifesto ao governo brasileiro - petição pública (BRAZIL)

Campaigns

‼️ justice for palestine

reach out to countries to back up south africa’s invoke genocide convention at the ICJ

‼️ international criminal court

submit evidences of israeli war crimes

friends of al-aqsa

❥ UK-specific

urge your MP to speak up for palestine

hands off al-aqsa

stop administrative detention

petition for UK to stop arming israel

❥ International

boycott puma — email them to end their partnership with israel

boycott coca-cola

islamic relief canada

urge your MP to rally for ceasefire

decolonise palestine

poster campaign to raise awareness on the war crimes being committed against palestinians

text/call campaign for people living in USA

text RESIST @ 50409 to send a letter to your representatives to pass HR3103–a bill that prohibits tax dollars from going to israel

download 5Calls app to contact members of your congress | (more info)

fax campaign for people in the USA

go on this website to send 5 free faxes per day

here’s a link to a pre-written fax copy you can download to send (the first link on the linktree)

here’s a video that explains how to fax your senator (it’s very easy and all you need is a valid email address)

‼️ BDS movement

get involved in boycotting companies associated with israel

palestine diaspora network

global strike guide - join the global strike!

please let me know if you have any more links. i will add them in. and please reblog the original post!!

UPCOMING PROTESTS

PALESTINIAN LITERATURE READING LIST

PALESTINIAN BUSINESSES

-last updated 11/3/24-

[septemberkisses]

the fact that i'm no longer the same age as the protagonists of novels and films i once connected to is so heartbreaking. there was a time when I looked forward to turning their age. i did. and i also outgrew them. i continue to age, but they don't; never will. the immortality of fiction is beautiful, but cruel.

[thoughtcascades]

The best thing I ever did was calm down because I used to be crazy as fuck

[mvsmvsthm]

2 November

18:45

hahahaha what a good number.  To think that happened just as a coincidence.  I realized that there was a clock on my screen (not that that is unusual) and when I got done telling it how I wanted to see the information presented, in the 24 hour time the current time ended of being 1845.  It’s quite ironic. 

We have this issue that 

we got to thinking about how every time we put too many Ss we think of the one character we had, Mnrva.  She has a quirk of doubling her Ss or something like that, it was obnoxious.  But we had another character with an even more obnoxious quirk and like that was also his quirk, that it was obnoxious. Like he’s just hard to understand.  And part of me is laughing somewhere because I just know that was Mercury’s character.  I, in a way, feel like Yancy but I am reluctant to accept that identification.  But we were thinking about Mercury and Scorso, I think that was his name.  

I’ve had to break off now, just thinking about all the characters I had.  

It’s pretty cold up here, but I like being here.  I like this world existing.  

I got a blanket now.  It feels cozy.  

Is my perception and reaction becoming more stable with age, or is it the seroquel? I guess I may find out when I don’t need seroquel...which, I think it’s going to be a very long time before I don’t need seroquel.  Maybe I’m wrong, but I. I run out of words, into this blank white space.  I’ll need 

Wow, my mind went places.  I was thinking of very diffrent things, but I thought of Kayla, the helper I used to work with at Panera.  I felt a resentment at “whatever I told her,” I don’t even know, I just hate that I ever told her anything.  I’m lacking words, I think I felt.  subconsciously obligated to bond in a sense with her.  

I just want to sleep again, honestly.  Sleeping feels so nice lately, it’s recreational.  

I’ll be thinking” I don’t remember where that goes. 

It’s 19:08.  Usually I’d be at work right now, probably taking noticing of the time.  I hate being there, but when I’m there it’s not so bad.  If it were possible, I’d switch right now, so that I didn’t get pulled back into the small feeling of belongingness that I feel at phl4.  It’s easiest to stay and with an affinity for the people, I almost want to.  

[alittleporfle]

DO NOT REPOST THIS COMIC. IF YOU WANT TO SHARE IT, PLEASE DO SO FROM THE SOURCE.

Here is my submission for @zakeno’s Mental Health Zine to help fight stigma in the professional field. My contribution is about my experiences with Dissociative Identity Disorder, which is sadly highly stigmatized and misunderstood, even within the mental health field (despite there being tons of concrete research to support it). Coming out about having DID is a thing that makes me very nervous, admittedly, but I want people to know that Dissociative Identity Disorder is very real and we deserve to be acknowledged and not feel like our existence has to be hidden or shameful.

I’m posting this comic in full is because DID deserves so much more recognition than it gets, but please go check out the kickstarter for the full zine and consider supporting it:  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1056477701/the-animated-brain-mental-health-in-the-animation

Since I was limited to 5 pages for this specific project, this is only the very bare bones introduction to DID, and there is easily a million more things that can be talked about in how it presents and affects people individually, but hopefully this is a comprehensive introduction based on my personal experiences.

Even though this is only 5 pages, it was one of the most difficult projects we have done and took a few months because trying to get everyone as an alter to contribute when they were fronting to show our range in skills was a waiting game. Sadly, we were running out of time so sort of just had to have whoever was out at the end finish it (which was mostly Devyn).

Like briefly talked about in the comic, DID forms in response to repeated childhood trauma (generally by ages 6-9) when failing to integrate a singular sense of self is needed for survival. This failure to integrate experiences, memories, etc. leads to these self states being able to function independently from each other and control the body at different times with varying levels of amnesia between switches. As time goes on, the more each part experiences different aspects of day to day life, the more and more differentiated and developed they can become from each other. Even though alters can be highly distinct and can function as if they were individual people (and boy can it feel that way on top of a lot of us preferring to be acknowledged as separate from each other in our body), the reason it’s called Dissociative Identity Disorder and no longer goes by its outdated name, Multiple Personality Disorder, is because alters aren’t actual separate fully-fledged personalities, but instead a single individual’s life and experiences split up from each other in a bunch of dissociated self states.

If anyone is interested in knowing more about DID, I always recommend this website as a great source: http://did-research.org/

I’ll also throw in the Myths and Misconceptions page: http://did-research.org/did/myths.html

Spoilers: No people with DID don’t have secret killer alters and are no more dangerous than literally any other person. DID is a defense mechanism/way you develop to navigate your environment, and for us specifically, we continued to be victims of abuse and mistreatment even until recently due to our amnesia and lack of awareness hiding the knowledge when people were harming us.

Happy Mental Health Awareness Month, everyone! 

[reverie-system-deactivated20230]

I love this so much! Though we mostly only have partial amnesia, I relate so much to this.

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

“Sometimes people with the worst past end up creating the best future.”

— Unknown

[posiviibes]

[quotefeeling]

“Some steps need to be taken alone. It’s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”

— Mandy Hale

[thehopefulquotes]

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

— Haruki Murakami

[positiveautistic-deactivated202]

You survived the trauma, you will survive the recovery

[co-fronting]

Remember to treat your alters with kindness, be it persecutors, trauma holders, littles, or anyone else.

[thebookquotes]

I believe that suffering is part of the narrative, and that nothing really good gets built when everything's easy. I believe that loss and emptiness and confusion often give way to new fullness and wisdom.

— Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

[merisms]

alter traits always have a reason

DID/OSDD is a survival mechanism of a traumatized developing brain. it's not going to spit things out without reason. one of the things DID/OSDD does, as we all know, causes alters to form after recurring trauma

those alters form because the brain believes it needs a part which can handle whatever it's trying to store. naturally, this means everything about an alter are all things that the brain believed it needed in order to survive. even things which seem undesirable (eg, a part that holds sadness and cries all the time) were needed because Someone needed to hold all of that

this means everything about an alter has a reason. sometimes the reason isn't drastic. maybe an alter likes one toy more than the other because they split at the age you got that one toy and that's all. other times it can be something that really needs addressing, like parts that lash out

this means there will be threads of similarity throughout the whole system because the divergencies are where different traits were needed. if you're white, your brain will not just decide to make certain alters identify as a different race for no reason. if you're not trans feminine, your brain won't just decide it needs a trans feminine alter. if you're cis, you won't just have a trans alter for kicks. the same as how a part that lashes out is not just lashing out without reason, or how a part that does schoolwork is doing it for a reason

there will always be an underlying reason why they identify or act a certain way. and it is up to you as a whole to reduce any/all harm that causes when that is applicable

[positivelypastelpink]

[destroymylife]

[reveriesystem-backup]

Some reminders about DID/OSDD 🖤

[madeleinejubileesaito]

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