Call me zky. ChronoMid20s, agefluid, any prns, non-human, shapeshifter. i had a Thing and deleted my blog... but im back. hi.
No DNI. i will block if I'm uncomfortable, i recommend doing the same. please just block, don't report-- i will just make a new blog.
star dividers: @pixopix
my likes: CATS, all animals, video games, juice, MY WIFE, dark/black aesthetic, smosh, SKYRIM, sims 4, fantasy, dnd, baldur's gate 3, WOMEN, psychology, psychiatric criticism, paraphilias, true crime, pasta, root beer, nice people, pigeons, sanrio, swimming, libraries, rainy days, the beach, gummy vitamins, smoking weed and cigarettes (quit nic..... i miss u cigs T-T), ICE CREAM,
my dislikes: spiders (not jumping spiders) and scorpions... not in a mean way im just arachnophobic TwT, extremely hot or cold weather, mr beast, spicy food, creepy old men, trump and MAGA, puritans, reactionary ppl,
Suggestrogen and her friend have a moral compass of fucking titanium. This IS a terrifying thing to take a public stance on, because people say "pedophile" when they mean "child abuser," and conflate the terms. And, yeah, I'm scared to talk about this, but if she can do it, so can I.
Pedophilia does not make someone a bad person. If all you know about someone is that they're a pedophile, you know absolutely nothing about their actual morality.
Harm comes from action, not from attraction.
I want to articulate this somewhat succinctly, despite my fear.
Pedophilia is just attraction.
It does not take a pedophile to hurt a child. It takes someone with a degree of power such that they can "get away with it." (Parents, teachers, religious leaders, etc.)
This is still a person!!!! What do you think being seen as the worst, evillest ticking time bomb does to someone's psyche? If you're feeling revulsion at these words, you're part of the majority. Friends, family, therapists, employers, all that could turn on someone if they found out about:
Something outside of your control. No one wakes up and chooses to become a pedophile. Chances are that, you, the reader, are not attracted to children. And you cannot change that. Well, someone who IS attracted to children can't change that, either. They can work on it, sure, if they roll the dice and find a therapist that won't call the cops on them and instantly tell their immediate family.
A few years, maybe a decade, ago, everyone was fascinated with the "psychopath." The "sociopath." Now, we have a craze of "narcissistic abuse." And these are all harmful, alienating things that people with Cluster B disorders have to take, over and over again.
None of these disorders (ASPD, BPD, NPD, HPD) are destigmatized in the slightest, but there ARE people with Cluster Bs speaking out and saying, "this publicly created boogeyman is fucked up. I'm not a monster. I'm a person with a different brain, but you see me as incapable of being anything other than a villain."
Do you see what I'm getting at?
At the end of the day...
Stop saying "pedophile" when you mean "child abuser."
Understand what actually causes child abuse.
Understand that being attracted to kids isn't something that can be chosen (or UNchosen)
Remember that this is still a person.
That is all.
I won't lie, I'm absolutely TERRIFIED right now. I can't believe I'm actually making this post. On the one hand, it's long overdue. On the other, what will the reaction be?
I've cared about this for years, if I'm being honest. Back in my psychology phase, I got curious as to what causes pedophilia. I remember reading, and still feeling disgusted at, the fact that this attraction isn't controllable. That it just happens to people.
Happens moreso to victims of CSA, if memory serves.
I read an article, a while later, called "You're 16. You're A Pedophile. You Don't Want To Hurt Anyone. What Now?" The Medium article is now behind paywall, but my friend Freedium has a workaround for that.
There will be bad actors in every group. People like Ezra, who gleefully pass around CSAM, or people like NAMBLA, who encourage youth/adult relationships. But the reason you only ever hear about the bad actors is because MAPs (and, yes, this IS the term the scientific community coined) - MAPs who are safe people, who DON'T encourage child exploitation - they keep that part of themselves a secret. And can you fucking blame them?
What the FUCK is up with the commenters. I'm so mad and sad.
Yall will not accept the truth if it makes you uncomfortable. You imagine yourselves to be so smart and pure, yet you refuse to make yourself think if something is actually harmful even if it sounds gross.
But WE, HARMLESS PARAPHILIACS, WE PAY THE PRICE FOR IT. WE are the ones who have to hide ourselves, pretend to be one of you because YOU are not going to get out of your comfort zone.
by harmless paraphiliacs I mean those who don't hurt anyone. No attractions are harmful, only actions
people give lip service to the idea that women who've been SA'd aren't at fault bc they wore "revealing clothing", yet are quick to absolve abusers more generally by saying "oh only a pedophile would assault kids"
Isn't attraction supposed to be virtually irrelevant as far as sexual assault goes? That's also why adults who aren't conventionally attractive can be victims of SA, same as children. It's not because this society's beauty standards have somehow faded into near irrelevance or that there are just that many pedophiles (who just so happen to occupy positions of power with frightening frequency), it's because what causes abuse is access and power, not attraction
Do you know why I say time and time again on YT videos that if you don’t like a piece of media, you should just leave the room instead of engaging with it or making it everyone else’s problem?
It’s because of events like this.
Actions that seem to mean well at first, always go too far and start the process of removing stuff that you yourself may enjoy.
DDLC is a gut punching series that tells its story well and needs all of its story elements to tell it. If that is something someone can’t handle, then they should leave it be, not cheer or support its removal.
And before you say “oh it’s just the android version, who plays it there?”
1) *you* don’t play it on Android, but someone definitely did
2) who’s to say this isn’t testing the waters and see where else it can be removed?
school uniform codes extending to what colours you’re allowed to dye your hair, and what piercings you can have and stuff is so crazy. you HAVE to go to school and you’re not even allowed to have pink hair or pierce your nose about it????
“oh it’s to prepare you for the workplace” okay. i don’t think any workplace should be dictating what you can and can’t do with your body either and i think it’s strange to decide to teach children that their body is not their own
I wanted to share a disability resource that I think a lot of people don’t know about! In the US, each state is required to have an assistive technology program that helps people get assistive tech (including things like AAC, mobility devices like walkers, wheelchairs, shower chairs, and more, depending on the program). Each program is required to have a device lending library for assistive tech, a device reuse program, a device demonstration program, and a program to help people access funding for assistive tech.
The assistive tech program in my state does free 3D printing of assistive tech, has a mobility device borrowing program, has a program to get people AAC devices, and does a ton of other cool events. Each program will function a little differently, and some might have fees, while others are completely free. Generally, my experience with programs have been that you do not need any medical documentation to borrow things from the lending library, but that you will likely need various kinds of documentation to access grant funding to pay for assistive tech. I’ve generally had a much better experience with assistive tech programs than with things like vocational rehabilitation when it comes to how many barriers there are before you can access support.
Check out the state directory of assistive tech programs!
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I think a lot of young folk fail to realize how legal adults are forced into paranoia about being around legal minors
I even see in this community how people will tear someone apart going, "they're an adult they should know better!!" and they're only 19. like, barely an adult. that's a lot of pressure immediately conditioning you that all your mistakes are 100x more serious now
combine that with not being able to go to a playground as an adult without a child otherwise you're a predator. you can't strike up a conversation with a random child or you're a predator. you can't hug a child that's not your family or you're a predator. you can't be alone with child that's not your family or you're a predator
this messaging follows us around everywhere on social media. combine that with the amount of shit people are saying about maps in the current era?
can you really, really blame a person for just trying to find a safe space to understand their feelings and figure out how to accept themselves without intense fears of somehow being a predator by being too openly fucked up or freaked out near them?
and on the other side. to the adults out there? you know how it feels every time we come across another blog that's anti and had some shit to say about us? that sinking feeling that another person doesn't want you around by virtue of being yourself. how fucking annoying and painful is it that we're automatically dismissed by a large portion of this site's community?
now imagine you experience that every single fucking place you go. can't be outside. can't be inside. can't be online. it feels like the whole world has written you off and it only gets affirmed over and over and over again. and then you finally find the one place where you can be yourself and be accepted in all of you. but nope, there's still countless barriers. you can never relax. as if it isn't hard enough going through hormonal changes, shitty forced social circles, lack of agency. I mean damn that's overwhelming
can we just....maybe have some empathy that both sides are both dealing with an incredible amount of pain and fear that deserves acknowledging? like I don't know if there's any easy solution here. and that's probably why this debate rages on endlessly
so I'm asking the community to think seriously on this. how do we make sure everyone feels safe and secure without denying anyone of their reality?
half the posts here are "all of you are groomers and i hope chris hansen personally beats you up in jail" and the other half are "i'm transtaco because i looove tacos"