#actually suffering

[primordialruin]

Lilith has every single reason in the book to become a villain. The amount of effort she goes through to NOT let that happen is impressive.

[kebriones]

Centaur and Cyclops ;-;

[skaven-shenanigans]

Don't eat spicy food when you first wake up.

[i-miss-my-90gb]

It is I, the walking pharmacy,,,

[unreal-morganism]

day three without AC: it smells like a comic convention in here. i have no electricity experience, but I'm the oldest one here; i tried to fix it, but it's dead.

[dick-chugger]

Guys, I kind of need a boyfriend

[flojouno]

why is writing moderately happy fanfic so hard for me. i always sneak angst and grief. how do i just write something for the sake of being happy. bruh.

[squarehammermp3]

People who fake illnesses and disorders (physical or mental) make me so fucking furious. It does so much damage and yet there’s people who insist you’re a monster if you question anyone’s claims.

My younger sister has Tourette’s. For her it’s a physical twitch that ranges from a hard blink to a shoulder jerk. She is as unaware of it as her own heartbeat. She only knows after it’s happened either because someone reacts to it or her muscles suddenly hurt. She’s was bullied for it in school and it disrupts her life.

And now there’s kids on TikTok faking Tourette’s as if it’s just a silly quirky thing that’s always context specific. And it makes me so angry.

This was sparked by a video about someone very obviously faking DID. And claiming some of their nearly 300 alters had Tourette’s. Not anxiety induced ticks or other psychological issue that could cause. Specifically Tourette’s. A neurological disorder. It could be worse for some than others because if they’re like my sister stress makes it worse. But it’s an issue of the physical brain. Just because you’re running different software doesn’t mean the hardware changes.

But what especially pissed me off was the over done and obviously fake stutter. Sounding the way a stutter might in poorly written fanfic. Speech impediments are not a joke. They’re not a costume. They’re not something you get to put on and take off. They are a real fucking thing and people with them deserve all the patience in the world and to not be mocked by fucking teenagers LARPing their 300 OCs on Tiktok!

I don’t have a speech impediment but I do have a form of aphasia that to some people seems like one. And when people don’t give me 2 fucking seconds I need to work around word I’m missing I want to go fucking feral.

Mental and neurological issues are not a fucking costume. Stop treating it like one. They aren’t inherently quirky. When you do this shit it makes it harder for real people with those and similar issues to be taken seriously.

Note that the “you” here doesn’t apply to anyone likely reading this, especially any mutuals. Im just really mad at people on other platforms and hope that some day they gain some perspective that makes them feel the sheer weight of what they’ve done.