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is it really still you?

[polysys]

new pinned post for the new year! system sideblog, did, nd, adult. a collection of posts that remind us of alters, comfort posts from agere tags, term gathering... and whatever else!

mostly we don't make original posts, but sometimes we do. have fun!

note, we do rb a lot of agere content for our smalls. you can filter through that by blocking #🍼

[wizardarchetypes]

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

and i'm like unfortunately i have bad news.

[wizardarchetypes]

if you don't know why this doesn't work, the issue is that ocd never stops when you implement a compulsion. it evolves. today you've "solved" it by never using a knife again (and losing access to an important cooking tool, thus limiting an aspect of your life) but in a few months or a year it'll be that forks are dangerous too. and hey, isn't it risky to use the stove? avoidance will even begin to manifest in places you might not recognize.

the point is that OCD compulsions are never solutions, they're actually the problems. the intrusive thoughts SEEM like the problem and the compulsions FEEL like the solution. and that's how it getsya.

[leathersys]

on having a "collective consciousness"

[kharrneth]

[cottonlamby]

I wasn’t going to post this, but then remembered messy ideas are better than unfinished ones.

Autistic meltdown, sending my problems to my favorite media character to cope with life.

I don’t know if this would trigger someone, let me know if that’s the case.

— ☁️ — ☁️ — ☁️ —

[leathersys]

common occurrence

[milksockets]

'maya beiser + her cello' in being material - mit press (2019)

[scary-caregiver]

Mother's Circus Animal Cookies Stimboard

🎪 - 🍪🌈🍪 - 🍪🌈🍪 - 🍪🌈🍪 - 🎪

[evilnicegirl]

i was abandoned as a baby & raised by a wild pack of cigarettes

[their-bby-dino]

Honestly nothing makes me feel more regressed than sitting in the backseat of my friends cars like I get to have my own quiet space and then I get to hear conversations I can't fully understand or hear up front. Recently was in the backseat and my friends know how much I love firetrucks so while I was quiet in the back my friend went "Oh! Here comes a Firetruck!" And it went past us and I felt like. Five again.

[christslamb]

The Hand of God

[regurgitatedsacrifice]

[jetix]

2024-10-16

[darlincries]

baby who soothes their mama's / papa's anxiety :( teaching their caregiver it's okay to open up whenever the world demands get too much, being there for them in a way their momma / daddy never gotten to experience 💭

[darlincries]

southern mama braiding her little girl's hair on the porch, a daily routine for mommy & baby, having a porch swing that her sweet girl loves to lay on when mama finishes doing her hair like a kitten sunbathing ☀️

[darlincries]

regressor who wakes up so small, so frightened after a bad dream, clinging to mama / dada immediately, somehow waking their caregiver up with their quiet little sniffles :c

"shh, shh, it's alright, mommy's / daddy's here, my love."

gently lulling their baby to sleep again, rubbing and gently patting their kids' back the way parents do to soothe antsy toddlers 💭

[thefacets]

Representation matters!