[town-without-me]

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[sawed-on-shotgun]

the human body when you use it and exist in it

[loveridden1999]

top 3 hobbies for young adults:

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

3. agonizing over the present

[blackpyrefly]

I heard another video game is coming out soon

this has to stop

[thecryptkeeper]

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

[diserbillyti]

Anyway can we meditate on this, fellas?

Every time I point out that disabled people are chill and that presuming we are violent monster maniacs is a bit ridiculous, at least one fuckwit has to be like, "oh yeah? What about [condition]?"

"Oh yeah? Well my sister works at a special school and she gets bitten by autistic kids all the time!" Okay. I was an autistic kid who went to special school. Didn't bite anybody, didn't see anybody bitten. I also worked in SPED for a while as an adult. Never saw an incident. Hm.

Oh look, studies show that violence is common in pretty much all schools because exploring and experimenting with violence is actually really common for kids aged three to nine. But oh, we notice it more when the retards do it. Why is that. Could it be ableism. We discuss it as an especially common and problemaitc thing when the retards do it. Why is that. Could it be ableism.

"Oh yeah? Well I'm a psychiatric nurse and my schizophrenic patient punched me!" I am a diagnosed schizophrenic. The whole reason I'm not working any more is that I lost years of my life in psychosis. Now, follow me here, I never assaulted anybody, but I have been assaulted a number of times since I became ill, always with the excuse of "well he could've become violent." Hm.

Every single major study on violence and schizophrenia finds schizophrenics are not more violent than the general population but experience violence at massively, massively disproportionate rates. In fact, they usually find the majority of violence in these contexts is perpetrated by support workers, family members, and police. Hm.

It just doesn't work mate. I'm sorry. You not only look ignorant, you just become useful fodder to prove my point that ableism is a real social force, because you've seen some disabled dude on social media talking about being disabled and thought to yourself, "aha, this is a fine time to be ableist." Come on.

[bluntforcespatter]

also I was a "bites adults" retard and it was because I was being violently sexually abused. I was terrified of people. if you reached under the table where I was hiding, I knew what adults did with their hands and how much it hurt. I was a nonverbal screamer retard, though, so I was seen as intentionally pissing people off For Fun to fuck with them or whatever. as a like, 2-8 year old.

maybe if someone IS being violent, their behaviour is a RESPONSE, like ALL BEHAVIORS ARE?

but it's the inability to see us as people. dipshit tard bites because it doesn't know any better. meanwhile I was a trafficked, nonverbal child, terrified of adults.

even under healthy circumstances, if you're "retarded" (which I was considered! for a long time!) then people randomly handle you. and I think if you were small and crying because you were hungry or scared or overwhelmed and someone grabbed your body tightly, you'd fight back out of fear.

and I cannot speak to psychosis or schizospectrum individuals experiences, but I can say I sympathize in my own ways. a huge case happened here decades ago, and the man had a breakdown upon realizing what he had done. who he was, what was going on for him, all discarded to parade him as a ticking time bomb, a mentally ill man waiting to snap on a poor sane normal person at random. it's been used ever since to bludgeon mentally ill people, though I haven't seen the same for worse & more frequent crimes being committed by white collar white men!

i cannot imagine coming to lucidity out of a dissociative state, for example, and realizing what i did. that would be awful. i am routinely afraid of that happening, due to horror depicting my illness that way. i am afraid to wake up and see that i am the monster. so i studied these things in real life - what really happens? what does it really look like? is there such a thing as a senseless, random act of violence? (yes & it's acts committed by our governments but this is already so long)

i see these cases, these visibly traumatized people who are accused of callousness or lack of care because they have flat expressions, flat affects... like a trauma response. like a symptom of the illness they have. i sympathize. every time.

perhaps we sympathize/empathize with people who are under high amounts of distress? people do not typically commit these acts "for no reason". a trigger is a reason, stress is a reason, fear is a reason.

dehumanizing these people and mystifying their acts is all ableist as fuck. you just want to see us as unthinking, bloodthirsty monsters. you will never have adequate supports in place "to prevent this from happening again" if you cannot see these individuals as people with interiority. you will not prevent acts of violence by shoving us all into state institutions, in fact that will increase acts of violence occurring! there is no "solution" to this that fixes or stops it, because each situation is different. flattening it all as "mentally ill people dangerous we must get rid of them" is reductive & childish & inhumane. this all solves for nothing.

it's all the result of being unable to see the person first. just propping up a cardboard cutout of what YOU THINK their illness or disability looks like, and blaming it for whatever you need. it's dehumanization. and i must stress, if you dehumanize a violent person, you are sprinting AWAY FROM preventing violence. you are treating violence as inevitable instead of as a behavior that was prompted by stimuli/input/reinforced thought patterns.

[diserbillyti]

It's well-articulated!!

I want to say thank you for bringing up the random handling element, that is very much a thing.

Mate I once had a teacher from the SPED see me at a local store and without warning she grabbed my hair and YANKED it with full force to tilt my head back so she could look at me. My grandma saw it happen and was like, "what the fuck?" and she rolled her eyes and went "oh I didn't hurt him!" And y'know, she got away with it because being very autistic, I didn't cry or yell when hurt, I just kind of froze and shut down.

And this kind of thing is just normal when you're disabled, especially if you're non/limited verbal. No one ever talks about it, but your right to your own space just doesn't exist in the eyes of able adults, who see the increased physicality as acceptable because you "can't understand." There's a reason we're victims of violence and C/SA at such massively disproportionate rates and while I'm not expert, I think part of it must be the sense of a social right to our bodies and space, or a belief that we "can't understand," or knowledge that others won't take us as seriously when we disclose abuse.

[peach-pot]

being anti-amatonormativity in a romance centered world is like watching half the people you know put all their eggs in one basket and then drop the basket and all their eggs break and they’re crying and swearing they’re never gonna do that again and then a month later they have all new eggs in a new basket and they tell you the problem was they didn’t have a strong enough basket or fresh enough eggs and then they drop the fucking basket again.

[peach-pot]

(this post is about putting all your time, energy, and care into one relationship, about staking all your happiness on a romantic relationship, effectively making the entirety of your joy and stability dependent on one person who could exit your life for any number of reasons no matter how great the relationship seems. it’s about the societal expectation to build your entire social life around one long term relationship, putting all your eggs in that basket, so to speak, instead of tending to larger social network and maintaining a variety of strong connections so that even if one very important relationship comes to an end, you won’t be losing your whole social life in one fell swoop.)

[fishpondfish]

it is impossible to watch a movie. every night i think i want to watch a movie. no movie gets watched. because it's not possible

[mousidy]

and yet they keep making movies with the hopes that one day humanity will discover a way to watch them. it's so inspiring

[wheelie-sick]

sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.

[wheelie-sick]

I don't even have the energy to screenshot and respond to your tags- what the actual fuck is wrong with you? "the cops are scared and rightfully so" "mental health calls are the scariest for cops" OH so this isn't about the safety of psychotic & manic people this is about piggy feelings?

and no, actually, this is not USA specific and no, actually, people from other countries should not ignore this post. police violence and sanism weren't invented in the US and they are certainly not unique to here. if you (or anyone) thinks that this bullshit doesn't happen elsewhere then you are not listening.

[strix-returns]

Someome having an episode is a medical emergency, not a crime in progress; it should be handled by medical personnel and not cops.

[wheelie-sick]

some of us live in constant psychosis or have long term or frequent manic episodes. medical emergencies are acute problems, not chronic baseline states. the majority of people with a psychotic disorder experience psychosis regularly. for most psychotic people a psychotic episode is not a medical emergency it is an average Tuesday.

don't call an ambulance on someone who does not want one.

a psychotic episode is not inherently an emergency

[jingerpi]

i think the main character that differs transmisogyny from transphobia + misogyny, is the goal.

trans masculine individuals experience what we'll call "corrective misogyny", where they experience a derision of their chosen gender in an attempt to push them back into the class of [cis]woman this is transphobia + misogyny.

People I think confuse this with transmisogyny because it involves transphobia and misogyny, but transmisogyny is not "corrective". The point of transmisogyny is to push trans feminine individuals out of both the class of man and woman, into a gender underclass, a subaltern as some have called it. There is no premise of "rescuing" trans women. trans men are abused in attempt to bring them back into the protected underclass of women, while trans women are abused in an attempt at the opposite, the intent is explicitly to push us out of all protected classes.

[byjove]

everybody: you’ve got to advocate for yourself in medical settings!

medical professionals when a patient advocates for themselves in a medical setting (x100 if that patient is a part of any minority): damn. you’re a hypochondriac crazy bitch who has every mental illness and is seeking every narcotic in existence. that’s the only reason you’d be disappointed in the care you’re receiving here. in retaliation, we will be even less helpful and less sympathetic. our jobs are hard. people are dying. we don’t have time to deal with anyone who is slightly inconvenient for us.

[psychabolition]

I have complicated feelings on people reclaiming/identifying with psychiatric labels. Anyone should be able to do what they want forever, of course. And I know how helpful it can be to have a term to describe your character traits or struggles, to be able to find community because you have a word for what you're going through.

But it does make my heart hurt for someone to think of themselves as sick, like their struggles are entirely because they were born wrong--to discount their material conditions and life circumstances and decide that their problems are all 100% them. To be dependent on the psychiatric industry to "fix" them.

Obviously developmental differences exist--I'm not trying to say that people don't have sensory issues, learning/processing impairments, meltdowns and hallucinations, etc.. But I don't think these things should have to be considered diseases either. I think differences are something to be celebrated, even when they make life hard.

I just think this mythical idea of a person who has nothing wrong with them ever and is both Mentally and Biologically Perfect doesn't exist. Frankly, that sounds like nazi shit. So why do we all have to use the language of the oppressor to define our human experiences?

I refuse to pathologize myself anymore. Instead of "I have OCD," I'll say, "I'm very particular and can get a little obsessive sometimes." Is that a mouthful? Yeah. Does it get the point across less succinctly and rely on nuance/context clues to paint the full picture? Yeah. But that's the point. I'm a person with character traits, not a patient with symptoms.

I genuinely want nothing for the best for Mad people, and I identify as Mad myself. I'm not the identity police. But I wish people would give some thought to what they're feeding into when they use words like "disorder" and "neurodivergent" liberally.

[cottoncandylesbo]

lately ive been addicted to these tiktoks where people put on an alien filter and just browse google maps and mark off countries and all the comments are people with pfps of little green aliens saying like "YES BOSS" "ALL CLEAR" "UNDERSTOOD BOSS"

AH I FOUND ONE

[cottoncandylesbo]

the comments.

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

at this point i don't even consider psych reformists to be a genuine part of the anti psych movement. i have yet to see a single psych reformist on here who isn't just deepthroating the entire boot at every possible opportunity. literally all they seem to be capable of doing is going on psych abolitionists' posts and whining about how "things aren't so black and white, there's nuance to everything, we can't just get rid of this system that was created to oppress others and beat them into conformity so that they're better able to generate profit for shareholders, it literally saved my life!!!! i'm anti psych too btw :)"

like how do they not realize their talking points are identical to the pro psych camps arguments, which are identical to the talking points from blue lives matter chuds? i wish they would stop attaching themselves to the anti psych movement when most of them are literally in therapy, on medication, and wholeheartedly believe the diagnoses that were slapped onto them by some shrink.

they genuinely have nothing in common with the people in this movement like me who see these "diagnoses" as nothing more than social constructs made up by random men in power in order to pathologize completely normal human behaviors in a society where everyone is suffering. why are they even considered under the anti psych umbrella? i will never understand.

Yeah it's like no actually we do not agree on this at all if you think the problem with psychiatry is limited to the people wielding the power in this system not being compassionate enough in doing so. Like I don't think they should hold this institutional power actually, and reforms won't change the basic structure I'm opposed to the existence of. I do not care whether people personally are in therapy or take psych meds for whatever reason, but if they are defending carceral psychiatry as a whole they're fundamentally not a part of this movement.

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[tamagotchi]

[ceo-of-catboys]

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[parakeet]

just saw a 'comments' tab on someones blog you know where the following and likes tabs would be if enabled and it was just showing all the replies theyve made on peoples posts. this is fascinating when did this feature come out

[parakeet]

EMERGENCY - ITS AUTO ENABLED!

if you've made replies on posts there is now a tab on your blog showing every post youve replied to and your reply.

if this is not what you want, either go to your blog and click comments and disable it from there or just go to your individual blogs setting pages. just change it from blue to grey if you dont want everyone to see your replies AND the post you're replying to

PLEASE BE ADVISED that it is set to disabled for blogs that have not made any replies but it will turn ON if you reply with that blog in the future.! i just tested it with my main, which was greyed out but it turned on the moment i left a test reply

figured i'd get the word out bc i have not seen a single mention of this and i'm sure there are plenty of people who maybe comment on things they don't want on display for everyone to see on their blog lol. you can still look at your replies with it toggled off just no one else can, like locking the following and likes list

[westernmassposting]

In my settings, this was auto-disabled for all my blogs. You might still want to check yours, especially if you've been hanging out in my replies/comment section as a way to avoid putting anything from my blog on your blog