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BEFORE YOU FOLLOW: this is more of a warning of who we'll block than a DNI, but it stands!
Note: we do not take part in shipping discourse on this account or any other account. Note is for those who want to know before interacting.
We are not open to discussing our trauma or diagnosis, thank you :)
We are trans. If you are against transfolk, leave us alone. TRANS MEN ARE MEN. TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN. NONBINARY PEOPLE DONT OWE YOU ANDROGYNY OR A MASC/ FEM PRESENTATION. TRANSPHOBIA EXISTS AND IS A REAL, SERIOUS PROBLEM. IF YOU DONT BELIEVE TRANS PEOPLE EXIST, OR HATE US, I HOPE YOU FEEL AS SHITTY AS YOU ACT.
We believe that Asexuality is inherently queer.
We are ANTI ZIONIST. WE BELIEVE PALESTINE IS UNDERGOING A GENOCIDE AT THE HANDS OF ISRAEL.
That being said, antisemitic folk, FUCK OFF.
Its not our place to tell you you don't exist as a system, so We Don't Want Syscourse on this account. We are neutral on it, please don't bring it up ACTUALLY FUCK IT, WE ARE PRO ENDOGENIC
We are not open to discussing our stance on proship or comship. We do have an opinion but this is not the place for it, so don't ask!
We don't understand most transID and don't know enough to have a fully formed opinion. We do support transspecies folk and if you want to teach us we're open to listening.
We are strictly anti-contact for "harmful" paraphilias. It boils down to "if you can hurt someone via the actions you would take to fulfill the urges caused by the paraphilia, do not do them. Doing them is wrong. Experiencing the thoughts and attraction is not."
They're actually chronically incapable of not saying stupid things!
But I do find this to be a very interesting post coming just 2 days after this happened...
Now, for those who have been living under a rock and not paying attention to American politics, that is Stephen Miller, Neo-Nazi Voldemort, referring to a Senate candidate in Texas as transgender as an insult. To be clear, Senate candidate James Talerico is a cisgendered man.
But bigots do not care about truth. They are driven by pure evil and will happily lie to smear their enemies.
And this is a common thing. There is a tendency of these malevolent subhuman monsters to first create classes of people they believe should be discriminated against and then try to associate all of their enemies with those people. Other conservatives have referred to the cisgendered James Talarico as "six-gender Jimmy."
And while this is a case of a straight cis man, this also has a serious impact on other queer people. Especially cis drag performers, many of whom may be gay or bisexual but are not actually transgender!
These cis drag performers have been specifically targeted by transphobia and anti-transgender laws pushed by MAGAt filth!
And since this is syscourse, I would also point out that it is very common for cis-identifying headmates with a different gender from their body's AGAB to be targeted for their gender identities, especially being malegendered as a form of a fakeclaiming. And this is another form of transphobia!
For use during breakdowns or generally just to ground self and connect mind-body.
Begin by getting in a safe place and position. For some this is easier lying down, but with practice this can be done at anytime. Close your eyes and start to focus on breathing slowly and deeply. Slowing your breath- holding each one for as long as you can and releasing slowly- slows the heart and thus calms the brain chemically.
Visualize your body as an empty glass container. The glass container is filled with a swirling dark solution and it is impossible to see through it. I call this the void, representing the feeling of disconnection and being lost/separated from the mind.
With a deep, slow breath, clean air is swept into the body from the toes. Clench the muscles there, forcing the dark swirling solution up into the body. Clean clear glass now exists there. Focus on what your toes are touching. Ground them to the earth. Your toes are now clear glass and the void has been forced upward, leaking out of the top of your head as you are grounded.
Do the same with the rest of your feet and legs, taking however many breaths you need and focusing on sensation to slowly push the void up and out of your body. Take your time to push it out thoroughly. Do the same up to your shoulders, focusing on your arms by themselves and not at the same time as the rest of your body.
Slowly concentrate on pushing the void out of fingertips and fingers. This may take more time, but be patient and use the clenching and relaxing of muscles to clear the glass body.
Continue clearing the body, and let the last puffs of smoky void leave the top of your head. You will be left with a clear body.
Focus next on your pulse, recognizing that your breathing is made by lungs, that your body is a biological thing and connected to your mind.
Continue calmly breathing and rooting yourself with sensations and using senses to root yourself in reality.
This sysmed decided to publicly relieve themselves!
I always am in awe sysmeds saying stuff like "everyone who thinks the opposite doesn't know how science works"
Because this list of people always includes those like Dr. Eric Yarbrough, author of Transgender Mental Health, who wrote this...
It includes the editors and reviewers at the American Psychiatric Association who published the book!
It includes Dr. Colin Ross, the single most prolific author on DID who has dedicated his life to treating trauma victims, and said this in an email discussing nontraumagenic multiplicity.
It includes people like Dr. Michael Lifshitz, a psychiatry professor at McGill University who has studied tulpamancy and reported seeing changes under an fMRI during switching.
And people who are neutral on it?
I mean, even the creators of the theory of structural dissociation have talked about how it may be possible for self-conscious dissociative parts of the personality to to form without trauma.
In fact, all the way back in 2001, dissociative identity expert Richard Kluft briefly discussed the possibility that there could be "nonpathological endogenous forms of dissociative identity disorder" that didn't require trauma.
That was a full 12 years before the term "endogenic" was coined!
And this is what gets me about these sysmeds!
There is a massive list of doctors who have affirmed the existence of endogenic plurality in various words! There are others like Kluft who have discussed the possibility but appear more neutral...
There are NONE that are anti-endo.
There is not one single doctor you can find saying "no, there's actually no way for multiple self-conscious dissociative parts/personality states/whatever-synonym-you-want-to-use to form without DID and without trauma."
For as much as sysmeds love to scream that anyone who supports endogenic systems or are even neutral on endogenic systems is supporting "pseudoscience," there are no sysmed doctors!
At least, not actual researchers writing papers. Clinicians are another story. NB4 the "but my therapist said..."
Every professional who has studied DID or plurality, and especially those who have researched endogenic and plural communities, are either pro-endo at best or neutral at worst. But none are ever anti-endo.
Plurality, as conceptualized in peer-reviewed research:
Plurality, often also called multiplicity, is "having more than one self in the mind and body" (Eve & Parry, 2021).
Plurality "is not a diagnosis" (Eve, et al., 2023) and is "a broader concept than DID" (Christensen, 2022).
Plurality is "a broad term, which encompasses a range of experiences" because "people have individual conceptualizations of what it means to be ‘more than one’" (Eve, et al., 2023).
Plurality is "a term coined to be more inclusive than only that of traumagenic multiplicity" (Christensen, 2022).
Not all people who experience plurality will identify as a 'plural' or 'multiple.' Plurality is a useful umbrella term for the experience of more-than-oneness "but not necessarily a term reflective of one's identity or self-expression" (Christensen, 2022).
"[N]ot everyone who identifies as multiple will want or require mental health intervention for the condition they experience" (Eve, et al., 2023).
The concept of non-traumagenic plurality does not hurt DID research. "[T]he research confirming DID as a trauma-based disorder is doing just that: confirming traumagenic DID, the disorder, not Plurality, the identity . . . Distinguishing between the two does not need to invalidate either" (Christensen, 2022).
The idea that plurality is inherently disordered is a product of Western culture. "Within Western linear frameworks . . . there has been an emphasis on the ‘healthy self’ being integrated and whole" (Eve & Parry, 2021). "In indigenous cultures, esp. shamanic societies, a polypsychism (i.e. many selves) prevails" (Scharfetter, 2008).
Fakeclaiming and anti-endo / anti-plural rhetoric is traumatizing. "[H]aving a condition such as multiplicity that is not generally validated and recognised in a community can be, in itself, traumatic. Even if trauma does not precede the development of multiplicity, trauma-informed care would still be appropriate for many young people who seek help for multiplicity" (Parry, et al., 2021).
