This is a new "this is x" blog dedicated to supporting fictionfolk, as the owner of this-is-fictomisia keeps dismissing the value, weight, and need for and deservingness of respect of fictionfolk experiences. That is always fictomisia.
All fictionfolk are welcome.
This blog fully supports exotrauma survivors as trauma survivors on equal grounds with orthotrauma survivors and recognizes the additional bigotry they face.
Post regarding exotrauma and this-is-fictomisia
Glossary, as it has been (semi-)requested:
Fictionfolk: those with personal identities related to what in this world is fiction, often rooted in various ways in being a certain character from that fiction as well as concepts, species; or having strong connections to those.
Fictomisia is discrimination against fictionfolk: dismissal and denial of our experiences, attempts to force us into disidentification with our sources, and much more. It is systemic; it is part of the overall enforcement of the hegemonic social norms, and the fact that it is a part of it does not mean it is not its own thing deserving distinct attention and having distinct features.
Exotrauma is trauma from things that did not happen to or in the body that one is inhabiting now. Orthotrauma is that which did; ortho- means traditional and here, also connects to the word orthohuman—traditional experience of being human. Exotrauma is a (relatively) commonly used term, but I have not seen orthotrauma used anywhere before writing it in my pinned.
Also, exomemories—memories from beyond the current body.
Alterhuman/alt(er)being: someone who is expected to have a traditional experience of being human, but does not. Fictionfolk are under that umbrella.
