#moral scrupulosity

[maplemaplemaplemaplemaple]

moral scrupulosity ocd affirmations compilation

[marcusbrutus]

tumblr: constantly be aware of your own privilege. constantly be aware of your capacity of be evil. hey i know you really like that new piece of media but make sure you're aware of all of the problematic elements all the time. hey i noticed you reblogged a post from a designated Bad Person so please make sure you do a thorough background check on everyone you reblog from to make sure they're not bad, otherwise people might get the wrong idea about you. always be aware of everything bad that's happening in the world all the time because silence is violence. i see you not reblogging this post btw. activist burnout is a privilege so be aware of that. xyz people are required to reblog this post. if you're not constantly fighting against designated Bad People you are inherently complicit and therefore a Bad Person.

people with ocd:

[azuremist]

I DESPERATELY needed someone to tell me this as I grew up in leftist online spaces. So now I am going to tell YOU:

If you

Check what you sent over and over to make sure you didn’t say a slur instead of “hello how are you”

Fear that someone will find you thinking not-leftist-enough thoughts and will call you out and ruin you

Feel you have to make your intentions clear and over-explain your actions

Find yourself consistently resisting the urge to engage in reassurance-seeking WRT being a good enough ally to marginalized people

Stay up late endlessly debating political ethics in your head

Have a set of actions that you take after discovering you made a morally wrong decision so that you can atone, which you rely on for reassurance that you are not a bad person

Would rather not make a decision at all than make a decision that is the lesser of two evils, but is not morally pure

then I am gently, but firmly, requesting that you look into moral scrupulosity OCD.

[prayingmaggots]

hi friendly reminder you aren’t a bad person for not reblogging something. reblog bait fucking sucks and its intended purpose is to make you feel guilty. it is not a moral failing to not reblog something and you are never a bad person for scrolling past a post. sincerely, a moral ocd haver

you are free to reblog this post but you aren’t obligated to. it’s okay to scroll, i promise

[obsessivelycompulsiveblog]

Having OCD sucks because making a mistake actually feels like killing someone and then you have that looming feeling you should never do your hobbies because you don't deserve good things :')

[suchusoid]

Tumblr is an absolute nightmare for people with moral ocd and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

[woodlouseandbird]

to-do:

1. be completely morally infallible

[simplysebby]

Moral obsessions say shit like "if you hurt someone you HAVE to PUNISH YOURSELF!!!! but also remember that post you saw a few days ago that said if you punish yourself when other people are upset with you you're a bad person. So. Punish yourself for that too. Which means you did something bad which means you should puni-" I AM STUCK IN THE PUNISHMENT VORTEX GET ME OUT OF HEREEEEEEE