juicy juice

mysterious 🌻 vampire 🧛❤️‍🔥 i will maul your heart 🌙 they/she/he, trans 3.0. 💚 25, physically disabled and mad. ☀️ come for the lewds, stay for the disability justice content

[urghost-andurboo]

Hiya! I was wondering if you knew of any literature about reforming the psych system because I agree its broken AF and as someone who's a part of it I want to be able to do better. No worries if not, I just saw posts you've reblogged and thought you'd be a good person to ask!

i do have some recommendations!

"mind fixers: psychology's troubled search for the biology of mental illness" by anne harrington and "comfortably numb: how psychiatry is medicating a nation" by charles barber both give a history of the medicalization of mental illness and critique the biomedical model. (hint: there's a lot of BAD science that makes up the core of psychiatry - the evidence for there being a biological basis for mental illness and psych meds working at all is very flimsy.)

the disorderland podcast debunks bad science, especially pop science, talks about the commodification of mental health, and explores whether the symptoms we pathologize are actually symptoms.

"madness and oppression" by fireweed collective is a workbook that helps you see how you're not crazy -- you're oppressed. it looks at how what a psychologist/psychiatrist would consider a symptom is actually a very rational and normal response to being oppressed.

"on your own: patient-controlled alternatives to the mental health system" by judi chamberlain is written by a psych survivor, and goes into her own experiences as well as what alternatives exist to the system. great for learning about peer support!

"stolen" by elizabeth gilpin is a memoir by a psych survivor. she was abducted and taken to a "treatment" program in Appalachia, then went to a boarding school that functioned more like a prison with abusive group therapy. this one's good for humanizing mental illness BUT can be triggering as hell to psych survivors - so proceed with caution.

"the zyprexa papers" by jim gottstein is probably my favorite on the list, it's about how the antipsychotic zyprexa causes diabetes and metabolic disorders, and is still commonly prescribed (this is how i got diabetes). it shows how psych med regulations are not enforced, especially since zyprexa is often prescribed off-label for conditions it hasn't been shown to be clinically effective for, and has led to death in some cases.

madinamerica.com is a good site to explore for psych abolition, debunking psychology research, new psychology research that centers patient's autonomy and rights, and personal accounts of mental illness. it's been around for a decade so there's a lot of quality content to sift through!

i also recommend reading about peer support and peer respite houses - i don't have any particular books or articles about them, but that can be a good jumping off point to looking for an alternative model to the current psych system.

[brownbearbutch]

Listen. My gender*** doesn’t feel very masc aligned but it does feel like dysphoria wise* I’m aligned with masculinity BUT that masculinity is genderqueer and gay and filled with cross-dressing.

[moreglitter]

STOP. moment of gratitude for those precious times of breathing from your nostrils when you don't have a stuffy nose

[paulgadzikowski]

Everyone who doesn't have a headache right now, stop right now for a moment and appreciate how good it is not to have a headache.

[disabledprincesses]

I think its funny how symptoms of autism often include things like:

- larger than average sense of justice

- high empathy

- extremely logic and reason driven

- aversion to "illogical" authority

But were the weird ones

[disabledprincesses]

I should probably be more specific, these aren't symptoms as in these could get you diagnosed. They are heavily correlated trends within those who have autism, just like a lot of "symptoms" talked about are such as having IBS, etc.

[blindbeta]

Hi, I have a question about how screen readers handle all-caps words? Like if I wrote "Mom told you to come home NOW!" with the word "now" in all caps, how does the screen reader interpret that? Does it inform the user that this word is in all caps?

Screen-Readers and Capital Letters

As of April 2023, screen-readers don’t really include a reference to all caps, nor does a difference in tone occur. The words “now” [lowercase] and “now” [capitalized] are pronounced the same way. This means emphasis is best conveyed in other ways. Using your example, you could write an image description of your text with the following:

Text reading: “Mom told you to come home NOW” [Now is in all capital letters for emphasis].

This works for image descriptions, although it might feel less authentic in other situations. If you want to emphasize the word “now”, you could add a period before and after “now.” This means that now would be one sentence. The period makes the screen-reader pause slightly to indicate the end of a sentence.

“Mom told you to come home. Now.”

Additionally, screen-readers do differentiate between capital letters in hashtags or words that are written without spaces. For example increaseaccessibility [all lowercase] and IncreaseAccessibility [with each individual word starting with a capital letter] are pronounced differently. The lowercase one is harder to understand. It reads as a long, jumbled word. The second, written with capital letters at the start of each word, is pronounced with more clarity. This means accessibility increases with use of capital letters in some cases, although screen-readers still don’t provide any indication if an entire word is in all capital letters.

This webpage by Perkins Access explains how to write accessible hashtags in the following text:

“It’s important to capitalize the first letter of each word in your hashtag. Why? When the first letter of each word is capitalized, screen readers are much more likely to read the hashtag as intended vs. reading it as one, long and jumbled word. In addition to helping visually impaired screen reader users, capitalizing each word benefits anyone who may not be able to easily identify the patterns and relationships between words, such as someone with dyslexia or a cognitive disability. For example, #socialmediatips is not as easy to read as #SocialMediaTips.”

Lastly, here is a page on building accessible websites if you want to use capital letters.

In closing, I would like to share that using all caps, particularly for longer sentences, makes things harder to read for many people. While it is fine every once in a while, too much can decrease accessibility and reduce general readability for print readers.

[90smovies]

Addams Family Values

[profmeowmers]

i’ve found it, the promised land

[notsweettea]

[anarch-witch]

[floridaoranges]

I’ve been here! There a truck stop and a diner. In the women’s bathroom there’s a fully clothed statue and if you try to pull down the pants, an alarm sounds in the whole diner.

[pleafromacatnamedvirtue]

Reading this post is like having a stroke.

[only-tiktoks]

[fractiousrvt]

Fucking things are extra fun with astigmatism and glasses with metal rims that also reflect light so I’m getting these fucking Messages From The Sun God via my rearview mirror, driver’s side mirror and a halo around both eyes via my ‘let me see at all’ devices that I cannot legally or safely take off while operating a car. Driving at night is a herculean trial for me now.

[weevildead]

i eat 15 apples for breakfast then drive myself to the hospital just to watch the doctors get blasted backward into the drywall bc they cant withstand my aura

[rockdoveking]

cant get sentences like this anywhere else

[responsibilitychan]

[ghost-cassette]

Tactical love for my tactical wife

[plumslices]

[plumslices]

[custer-mp3]

@gravehags

[guerrillatech]

[maxiemartmanager]

The school I work for the football coach’s car allowance is the same as my salary. I teach biology.

[huariqueje]

Red  -   Jean Arcelin

French  -  Swiss,  b. 1962 -  

Oil on canvas ,  73 x  54 cm.

[markv5]

Подстава

[a-cat]

this is not a helpful translation, google.

[a-cat]

oh

[viohra]

Now this is a Russian culture lesson

[slavicafire]

in this new year I want you to be alright. I hope you move out. I hope you have enough money to feel safe. I hope you abandon shame and forgive yourself. I hope you get enough sleep and some good news. I hope you laugh a lot and the heaviness of the world eases a bit. I wish you to be alright.

[offlinewomen-deactivated2024101]

was this episode written for me!!!!!!!

[patrickredactedbrewer]

OUTSTANDING NEWS for fans of Brünnhilde!

[Text ID: Tweet from @LibraryOfCongress reading “One of the most beloved free-to-use photos in the Library’s collection is of Brünnhilde, for obvious reasons. We’re happy to report that 2023 comes with a freshly digitized photograph of Brünnhilde from another angle.”]