Charms System

australian disabled trans system

[pixie-stick-it-to-the-man]

so apparently the dsm 6 is being structured around bio-pathologizing mental illness specifically in the direction of biomarkers…if u aren’t concerned about this maybe you should be…

DSM-6 Will Be Structured Around Biomarkers—Despite Acknowledgment There Aren’t Any

Psychiatry is hard at work crafting the newest edition of its diagnostic bible, DSM-6.

[sin0fempathy]

…so they’re now trying to search for “biomarkers”- which are essentially genes, or circumstances of conception/birth/what have you, that can “increase the risk” of mental illnesses. how is this any different from people wondering if there’s a “gay gene?” or autism speaks trying to find a genetic or reproductive “cure for autism?”

it’s not. this is barely disguised eugenics that they have ACKNOWLEDGED may (will) do more to harm than good for people with abnormal mental states. what else could the end result of finding a “mental illness gene” be than a reason to further marginalize those who are already marginalized, already branded as more likely to be (or even inherently) “mentally ill” and eventually discourage them to reproduce, either by coercion or force?

it’s more obvious than ever now. everyone should be anti psych

[ysmkinza]

Psychiatry as an institution functions to obfuscate the causes of mental and emotional disturbance (economic exploitation, abuse, lack of access to resources, etc) by describing mental illness as an individual pathology that needs to be recognized and treated by science.

Given where these hardships cluster most intensely, it is extremely useful to white supremacy and eugenics to have a "scientific" method of proving that pathology is more common among "degenerate" populations.

The DSM's various incarnations have corresponded to shifts in which part of this process have been considered more or less important to prioritize - the latest restructuring to focus on biomarkers is just a recalibration to better suit the needs of the imperial-capitalist white supremacist project.

[marquessofendos]

fucking imagine we lived in a world without an ingrained "us vs them" mentality and a need to punch down on someone to feel better. there'd be way less problems that way. but we don't so i get to bitch about syscourse once again

"omg you get to be plural without trauma but i went through hell and back and all i got was this stupid disorder so i fucking hate you" get a goddamn grip & maybe stop treating your headmates like theyre burdens before they actually kill you. be a shitty and abusive enough host and FAAFO. those are fucking people and people tend to react accordingly when they are treated like problems and burdens.

also nontraumagenic systems dont have it """easier""" miraculously because their systems didn't originate from trauma. you want an easier time with your plurality? start treating your headmates like they're people and maybe you'll make some progress.

the amount of sysmeds we see complain about how being plural is awful while their entire blog is full of self hate and hatred for their headmates is certainly not just 1.

its not gonna fix all your problems, but you know, it might make the whole being plural thing less dogshit

[rebuiltcombatsister]

me when i fucking lie

[rebuiltcombatsister]

"there is no evidence trans users were disproportionately... impacted" but by our count, since we are the only ones who care enough to count, of the ~200 blogs termed wednesday literally only one wasnt transfem

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

@staff @humans you lying mendacious cunts

[mutationgirl]

estrogenesis-eeveeangelion was banned by staff about an hour ago with no warning or message, no explanation.

[indicatheory]

tumblr totally not hiding anything definitely for sure /sarc

[problemnyatic]

who wants to see tumblr once again flagrantly abusing its moderation tools to bury bad press about the blatant transmisogyny in banning patterns? I love how they use ToS and mature labels to silence trans women and anything that could serve as evidence that trans women suffer here. Because, you know, there's no need to talk about any of that if we just erase it right? :) That makes it go away and the problem stop existing, right? :)

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

huh. looks at the note count wonder if that works

[wheelie-sick]

I don't like the way "religious psychosis" is being thrown around.

religious psychosis is not:

being evangelical and attempting to inflict your religion on others

being particularly devoted to a religion

having bigoted beliefs because of religion

allowing religious beliefs to inform your world view

being religious (in general)

religious psychosis is:

an example of psychosis that is intertwined with religion

often detached from prior religious beliefs, or is an extreme version of prior religious beliefs

often something that includes hallucinations alongside the delusions that people talk about

debilitating and often frightening.

consuming and obsessive

usually caused by another condition

you can talk about bigoted religious beliefs without pathologizing bigoted behavior. odds are that christian nationalist doesn't have religious psychosis- they're just a fascist. pathologizing fascist and bigoted behavior just gives a free pass to the people doing it. acknowledge that fascists are making these choices of their own free will and have every ability to stop making those choices at any time- they just don't want to.

[systlin]

Every time I see bullshit about women never EVER being able to beat men in any sport, I think about how in martial arts classes I, a cis woman, 5' 8" and 145 pounds, regularly beat the tar out of 6' 2" 230 pound cis dude weightlifters. One guy ragequit class. He came in cocky as hell and talking the standard bs line about how a woman simply never could beat a man in a fight because they're physically weaker and our instructor was like. Okay. Put the pads on you're sparring her. Yes, her, the one 4" shorter and 100 pounds lighter than you.

It wasn't close I beat the pants off that man, and others like him. I did it more than once. Some guys got humble and stayed. One guy got angry and stormed out.

And I think about that every fuck damn time I hear that bullshit, which seems to be all the fuck over the place these days. Oh, women are just fragile little soft delicate flower creatures who can't do ANYTHING and could NEVER compete with big strong manly muscular strong MEN.

I think about driving that dude into the mats and seeing the brutal reality of this big dude's misogany meet the realization that a woman was beating his ass literally that second, that none of his strength could stop the fact that I'd just hip thrown him facefirst into the mats and that had I actually connected with the axe kick to his neck I would have crushed a bunch of important shit and he could not stop me, and his whole psyche collapsing like a dying star in that moment.

Anyway, don't ever fall for it, ladies, and there's absolutely no goddamn reason to get your knickers in a twist about trans people in sports.

[cantanopeshitthatwastaken]

It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

[thatgiraffebutt]

On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.

[literallyaflame]

Here’s a fun story:

The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.

So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”

So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.

A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.

So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.

The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.

This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.

And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”

[madd-catter]

Many kids at my school will show up really sick because we only get like three days of excused absences without a doctor’s note.

[gen-is-gone]

this is what those in literary academia call “foreshadowing”

(note the dates)

[flowercrowncrip]

Once again shouting into the void that just because you think it would be physically easy for you to use a powerchair doesn’t mean that it’s easy for everyone.

The kind of disabilities that make you reliant on a powerchair often make sitting up at all very difficult, and affect movement to the point where using a joystick can be physically tiring.

And then there’s the cognitive load of using a powerchair, especially in public. I have to be aware of my surroundings to a degree that non disabled people often can’t understand. I’m watching pavement widths, where dropped curbs are likely to be, and how steep the camber is. I’m seeing if there are any bicycles, signs vegetation or other obstacles blocking the path in the next 100m (because the pavement is too narrow to turn round on if I miss something). I’m looking out for mobility aid users or people with pushchairs coming the other way because the path isn’t wide enough for both of us.

And in a crowd I’m paying attention to who is distracted by their phone, who is window shopping and might absent minded step backwards into me, who is likely to do something unpredictable, who has a young child or a dog I need to be aware of.

And for me I’m doing all of that without being able to move my head and look round easily. It’s exhausting.

[diserbillyti]

Been playing a lot of "psychological horror" games lately, and man

nonschizophrenics will simply never understand that "what if it was all in the person's head?" will never be scarier than a monster that actually fucking exists.

oooh what if you're crazy :o what if you hallucinate a goobly gobbler? well mate you fucking deal with it. rent's due monday. but an actual real goobly gobbler coming for my gnuts? that's different.

[seascourse-sidecourse]

another anti endos influx of people who have been here for maybe 5 seconds and act like they know everything. here's your rundown of how things are done in Tumblr syscourse:

endogenics are fine

they don't claim to have DID with no trauma

seriously they don't. I don't know where you got the whole "they're faking a trauma disorder with no trauma"

if someone is faking something, typically they will preface it with claiming the thing they're faking. if you don't see a CDD anywhere on their blog, probably they're not claiming to have one

everyone and their mother knows that CDDs are trauma-based

learn how to be open minded

if you're in the "syscourse" tag, no one looks at your DNI and it's effectively null for the tag. the tag you want to be using is "tw syscourse" or something like that

you can disagree and not be an ass

fakeclaiming is being an ass

telling someone they don't exist is being an ass

telling someone you know their experiences better than them is being an ass

don't be an ass

don't complain when you're being an ass and someone tells you that. it's not proof of endos harassing you

drink water

eat a snack

get some sunlight and some fresh air. opening your windows and sitting on the porch counts

maybe look at a bug. bugs are great

seriously don't be an ass

[werewolfclaws]

i feel like this is a dying art called 'being a good human being' anybody else agree. anybody

[squarewavelucky]

I hope this post finds you if you're someone who needs it.

- Pixie (she/fae)

[navelgazed]

Being a fictive is like. What if you were famous but nobody recognized you but everyone thinks your trauma is really funny to joke about or they treat you like a little meow meow that can do no wrong (even if you did do so many things wrong and you're wracked with guilt) or they treat you like trash or a sex object but nobody wants to treat the you you like a human being and if you open up about how the battle with the evil wizard was actually pretty harrowing or you wake up thinking about the killing game you were trapped in or that you were assaulted or you had to kill someone or lots of people or that when you close your eyes you relive your death sometimes everyone treats it like a fun little joke or like you're an idiot for being affected by something that didn't happen to the body you're in now.

And you're just expected to rawdog that shit. And sometimes even you treat your own past like a funny little joke until things get too real and you have a war flashback in your bedroom despite the fact that this body has never been to war, and then you just. Have to confide in the few people that will take it seriously.

Yeah anyway we're definitely not angry about the fact that we can't talk about our own pasts in therapy how are you guys

[navelgazed]

And no, these memories are also not allegories for what happened to us as a child, and we should still be allowed to talk about things that are unrelated to the body's history if they're affecting us mentally.

[the-neverending-sys]

Note to all the hidden plurals out there who are scared to expose themselves for fear of possible backlash or in an unsafe environment.....

sometimes, on occasion revealing yourselves can be positive. Because we now are proud to say that, 5 out of 9 of our friends in our friend group in an American High School, in the south!!... are plural. WE ARE THE MAJORITY. At least at our little table.

We can hardly believe it ourselves but we have never been happier, it just shows that when plural beings are not shamed for their experiences and their existences we can thrive.

if anyone has any similar experiences, we'd love to hear about it! But even if our experiences are not even remotely similar, let this be positive to hear.

~~ Ryo , one of the many co-hosts of the tnc

[squarewavelucky]

This is our protector, Silva, who I drew in armour.

-Lucky (she/it)

[sleepingdragoninn]

you don't know what pluralkit is

i'm sick of the lack of depth in discussions of plural accessibility and multi-ID features within current chat software discourse. here's the problem: you don't know what pluralkit is.

"they're making pluralkit for [chat platform]" are they, though? do you understand what that is? do you understand why tupperbox isn't pluralkit? do you understand why matrix account switchers aren't pluralkit? do you understand why IRC /nick isn't pluralkit?

here's the deal: multi-identity chat is not a technical capability problem, it's a social integration problem. The question is not "can you send messages from different profiles with this software", it's "how does this software avoid implicitly ostracizing plural systems?" and the answer fucking matters.

what pluralkit teaches us is that when multi-ID messaging is naturalised in the software itself, it stops being exceptional to the user. what matters is not the featureset available to systems, it's that pk/webhook messages look like messages, which means users treat them like messages. the shared design language makes plural expression approachable, comprehensible, even intuitive to people who would otherwise struggle, hell, plural systems who otherwise struggle - we've met so many systems who've known themselves to be plural for a long time, but it took seeing other systems openly using pluralkit to show them that there is a way to integrate their plural identity socially, that there is a space in the world they can make for themselves - and that have subsequently become comfortable and open with themselves in other parts of their lives. that's the kind of impact these accessibility tools have - you don't know what pluralkit is.

the catch is blaring - every piece of technical/social friction in a multi-ID feature others its users and fosters their alienation (e.g. copping "wHy iS tHe bOT tAlKinG" due to the discord BOT label) instead of trivialising their acceptance - these are effectively flashing neon signs that say "THIS ISN'T NORMAL" that you could just never install.

"they're making pluralkit for [chat platform]" do they understand the problem they need to solve? or are they copying the list of features beat-for-beat? the more you speak to plural systems on discord, the more you see how much the the medium both enables and limits us, the more "let's set the bar where it already is" is obviously an absurd fucking take.

the tools we use and their friction shape both what's possible in terms of our expression and actualisation, and what's trivial in terms of our ostracisation. you don't know what pluralkit is.

making individual improvements over pluralkit's frictions is good, but without understanding the right problem to solve, you can easily backslide or leave things incomplete: stoat's masquerade feature (for example) has technical improvements over PK by existing at an API level, but chose a name that sows distrust in openly presenting plural systems - a clear lack of understanding of multi-ID as a social integration issue.

you need to be able to think critically and identify pitfalls like this yourself, but here's my list of flashing neon signs to avoid installing:

Impermanence: treating using different IDs as a "change" [irc /nick notifications]

Scoping: removing user agency [tupper perms, bot invites, matrix per-id bans]

Armbanding: displaying multi-id messages unnaturally [BOT/APP labels, different formatting to other messages]

Opaqueness: missing flows that make multi-ID messaging seem edge case or "unsupported" [pk unviewable profiles, usage being confined to a bot or mod]

Complexity: time spent on any action scaling with ID count [matrix room joins getting you IP banned, anything without proxy tag parsing]

Serversidedness: not giving the chat client control over the ID to send a message with [pk deletion jitter, no avatar preview (leading to misproxies)]

multi-ID isn't something you can just "tack on" - remember, in an ideal chat software, ALL messages/accounts would be multi-ID (i.e truly natural messages) - with most users just never setting up a second ID.

so, use the accessibility tools you design - and talk to the people who've used them more than you. and remember: stagnation is not good enough - we deserve better.

- Jynn

[fractured-necrosis]

Don't use either of these platforms if you value yourself and your safety.

Orbit is open about using AI and doubles down no matter what if you point out how risky using AI for an app like this is.

Indigo on the other hand, made an eager post about the app they're developing, saying that they can look at your data and will very much delete your account if they find out you're an endo or find endo material in your account.

Remember that there are going to be people looking to take advantage of the fact there's very little for systems right now. Do your due diligence and make sure to do extensive research before using any platform claiming to be for systems, even if by a system.

[aubeezz]

thank you australian government from protecting me, a child (21 year old) from the scary hells of the internet