⌗⠀plural. autistic, dissociative, maybe obsessive-compulsive, anxious. goth, generally speaking.
⌗⠀ze/hir or ky/kyv/kyr (it/its auxiliary)
⌗⠀dms are always open. pls don't use tone indicators with us.
⌗⠀more under the cut!
⌗⠀our boundaries are pretty loose, we're generally chill with most stuff as long as you aren't being a dick. please don't follow if you're under 17! basic interactions are chill, though. we don't have a set dni, but block liberally. all systems are welcome here, we're a spontaneous/innate system ourselves.
⌗⠀we like writing, reading, procedural dramas, video games, etcetera etcetera. our main fandoms are iwtv, house, and secret third thing (secret third thing is a special interest, even)!! we don't engage with fandom on this blog much, however.
We're getting increasingly sick of even the most inclusive systems we follow speaking about plurality though an implicitly disordered/etc lens. Personal statements aren't what I'm talking about, but people will make blanket statements that very clearly imply (or outright state) a history of childhood trauma, severe dissociation, etc. are inherent/universal in plurality or, slightly (but not much) better, the default experience.
hadn't read a single book this year. our fiancé's mom brought up being excited to watch project hail mary for the first time with someone who had read the book, and being sad that now she wasn't going to (she was gonna w fiancé's dad, smth came up, now she's going to w fiancé+us). and i was like "yk what. ill read it tonight". so here i am ~4.5 hours later with a ~500 page book read (it was very good. punchy). yippie :)
Oh sorry i took a long ass time to reply and didnt say anything. I got arbitrarily scared and tired myself out so now i cant say much. Oopsie teehee. it makes you feel like a huge dickhead
our pet peeve of the day is the assumption that all epileptics have photosensitive epilepsy. ~3 percent of epileptics have photosensitive epilepsy. epilepsy does NOT equal "has seizures caused by flashing lights".
this would bother us less if we weren't epileptic. or, rather, we were as a kid (we haven't had a seizure in 10+ years, so... not anymore, i suppose. who knows). it did affect us back then, in real life. people, including our mother, tried to "protect" us from eyestrain even though it was completely harmless. i understand that an overabundance of caution is better than a total lack of caution, but it's like... c'mon. how many times do i have to tell you that my condition isn't photosensitive. our seizures were all in our sleep, and in dark rooms*. it was infantilizing and just plain annoying. it also caused us to not know what the word was for what we were experiencing (epilepsy) because we thought that word meant lights give you seizures, and we knew that wasn't right.
(*minus one that was on an airplane)
and then there's just the fact we care about wording a lot. both "photosensitive" and "epilepsy" mean different things on their own. photosensitive refers to skin that is extremely sensitive to uv (basically), epilepsy is essentially just recurring seizures without an external cause (like an infection or withdrawal).
on another note, it annoys me when people mix up "photosensitivity" and "photophobia" (we have photophobia. lots of people do i think). photosensitivity is the skin thing, photosensitive epilepsy is the seizure thing, photophobia is the eyes are sensitive to light thing.