The Journey Of Learning

On this blog, I will be tracking my learning on my religion, Hellenic Polytheism. I will be making information dense posts (although my posts on the Delphic Maxims are simply my own interpretation, not actual fact), as well as updates on my personal practice with the Theoi. If you see mistakes in any of my posts, please do not hesitate to correct me in a respectful manner. I am still learning, after all, and do not wish to spread false information. I will both correct the post and make an additional post to clarify that I was mistaken to any who read it. Thank you for supporting my blog!

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More dog and more cat.

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Here's some of the dogs she has!

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Here's the kitten she had! SO PRECIOUS!

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My dads friends cats (or at least two of them). We stayed with her in Arizona :)

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Oops there's even more lame pics. It really was breath taking. Go see it irl.

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Shittiest pictures taken of the Grand Canyon ever. You're welcome.

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Also!

Going to Arizona! Very excited, it'll be my first time visiting!

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Guess who got six books to read from the best dad in the world on a topic I hold dear. It's me.

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Based on a true story.

[cytoplasts]

this comic is disgusting

[fistingmyself-deactivated202103]

bruh if you identify as like a carpet or a fucking alligator youre not trans youre a joke

[gallifrey-feels]

oh thank god I was starting to think we would never stop tiptoeing around this one

[expiredcandi]

thankyouthankyouthankyou

[krazorspoon]

I don’t do many reblogs… but this one hits home. Outlandish identities [such as the example in this comic] undermine, debilitate, and warp the actuality of transgendered people and the daily struggle they experience. These groups are simply two completely different entities, and are NOT categorised in the same title FOR A REASON. Grouping the two separate types of people together encourages the public eye to view transgendered people as a whole as a joke. The feeling is not mutual.

[titusbjorn]

I keep my mouth shut about most things on the trans folk, but i’ll agree with this 100% as my own view of the trans community is still a little warped because I met the “outlandish” identities first.

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Delphic Maxim 87. Accuse one who is present (Αιτιω παροντα)

So, don’t blame someone who isn’t even there?

Again, other thoughts on this?

[honeyandincense]

I always took it as if you wouldn’t say it to their face don’t say it at all. But another look at it and literally yes you shouldn’t blame someone who isn’t present to defend themselves.

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What is Casper doing? Did he regress to a kitten? I think he thinks the blanket (so soft, btw) is his mom and he's trying to get milk. He's two years old though...

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The kitty that I'm cat sitting! Easiest $100 in my life, I love this guy! His name is Casper :)

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poop head

You've crossed a line.

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Get help, please.

[iexistwow]

#more like crazy

Oh my god! Sharing your body with other people isn’t normal??? It’s seen as *gasp* crazy??? We had NO IDEA and have NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE.

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Obviously you have, so why…

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But why make a subculture with this? It seems like it’ll make ill people, even if they aren’t diagnosable, just give in and not strive to get better due to the fact that they’re surrounded by people who encourage it.

To me, it seems a bit like the proanna tag. I used to fall victim to it, to think it was the right thing to indulge in. It wasn’t until I wised up and surround myself with ACTUALLY HELPFUL things that I was able to heal.

[juniperspolyphony]

It’s not about encouraging it, though. It’s not encouraging people to be sick, and destroy themselves. The point of the DID community is to help each other and help themselves heal, and figure out how to do those things. Like, I see where you’re coming from and everything, but your angle is slightly skewed?

A lot of the people here do seek help and treatment, a lot of them are in treatment and a lot of them are healing. I promise you, it’s not about encouraging a disorder — it’s about learning to live with a disorder while you heal in your own way. The outcome of the pro ana community is to die. The outcome of the DID community is to be accepted and safe, and be able to say how you feel and what’s going on in your head and the others that share your body.

It is a disorder. But in the same way that pro recovery things for EDs are around, where you might not learn how to become better, but learn how to cope and manage everyday life with your ED, people with DID need to have support like that. ^^ I hope I’m making sense.

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Well said, poisonand.

As a side note, I think there’s something that a lot individuals on the outside of the DID community have a hard time wraping their heads around: As strange as it may sound on the surface, the state of being multiple, in and of itself, is not the disorder. Fundamentally, that is not the root of the dysfunction (in fact, it’s the plurality to which we owe our adaptability during our disjointed and grim childhoods). The multiplicity aspect of DID is the sign that our brains missed the critical developmental milestone of forming a singular identity, resulting in our being “many minded.” However, happy and fulfilling lives can be achieved while being “many minded.” Yes, it’s different from the norm, but “different” doesn’t always have to be synonymous with “broken.”

No, the true, disruptive disorder comes from the co-morbid PTSD symptoms that interlace themselves within the overarching function of the multiplicity. The disorder is split between the alters, wherein some alters may have anorexia, others may drink or cut, and so on. (And it’s important to mention that one cannot simply “kill the problem” by “killing the alters,” despite what the media may suggest.) These self harming aspects are what we must seek professional help from, and typically, we do. We also encourage others like us to do the same. Once the alter is treated for the dysfunction that they hold, they can become healthy. And when the members of a system each receive help, that is when cooperation and real healing can take place.

But in that time while we are seeking help from the horrors of our history, we are also terribly lonely. We work differently than the average person, and we yearn to reach out to others who understand the rocky and incredibly unique path that people with DID face. This is why communities like this one exist.

We do not perpetuate and encourage disease. There is no “indulging” to be had, unless you mean the chance at simple interaction. The community as a whole perpetuates the ongoing battle for proper support and healing. 

- Day

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Yes, this ^

Very well said xx

[meeresbande]

We will never understand how singlets/neurotypicals in general seem to believe that calling us “crazy” and stigmatising us and discouraging us from working against that stigma will ~help~???? That’s just pure ableism. We won’t get better by being isolated, stewing in our own self-hate, and getting aditional hate and slurs from singlets. One of the things that is MOST helpful in healing and recovering from trauma is the realisation: “We are not alone. We are not wrong.”

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I'm not "neurotypical," but whatever you wish to believe. Obviously you have no trouble believing even the most ridiculous of things.

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A lot of otherkin hate going on from narrowstreetsofcobblestone - please be careful and steer clear, friends!

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Yes, please steer clear or I'll get cha :P

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Since you identify as both gluten-free and whole wheat, and whole wheat things can't be gluten free, does that mean you were two different types of pasta in past lives? Or are you a system with multiple pastas inhabiting the same body?

I've been many types of pasta in my past lives, and also have brain mates that are different kinds of pasta :) this is a place where all pastakin are accepted.

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Well, I'm glad I found myself.

It took a lot of soul searching, but I finally know who I am.

Pastakin.

I know I’ll get h8erz for this, but it’s really who I am, ok!!? It’s seriously and deeply spiritual, u wouldn’t understand.

As for the NON A LBIEST SKUM BAGZ- I love you all~~and thx sooooooo much for accepting meee~

My new pronouns (please use them it hurts me feeling when u don)::::

Tasty Delicious Tender Al dente Spinach Saucey Gluten free Whole wheat

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opalborn understands and accepts me :) everyone else should too because GOSH, just why not? I thrive on the acceptance of others, love me or I'll diiieeeeeeeeeeeeee