Whoever made that tag doesn't realize how much we love 80s Synthwave Numb Bob Fan Dance in this home
phone: you have downloaded 49 apps to your phone that you have literally never used in the past two years. delete them to free up space?
me: get fucked
y'all not to doxx myself too hard but irl i have spent some time in my life in mental health recovery, and i am here to tell anyone who needs to hear it that people with multiples & schizophrenia & psychosis & BPD are fun and interesting and lovable people and my friends
i knew somebody in recovery who had a system of 12 personalities that he drew out in a nested chart for me. they did not remember each other's experiences. and it was cool! i could talk with one alter and then catch up another alter later about what we talked about! it was fun!
i knew a girl with psychosis who heard voices in static and running water but didn't want to get rid of them cause they never said anything distressing and they were familiar and comfortable. that's awesome! how cool is the variance of human experience??
hey to the person who tagged this "of course there are exceptions" make your own post you stigmatizing bitch the mad community are my homies and nobody wants your stank ass
nobody likes the “bad boys” who insult and degrade their partners while wearing pastel polos with popped collars, people like REAL bad boys who wear leather jackets and take a lot of care in how they shape their pompadour and carry around stiletto switchblades and care about their communities and ride a motorcycle and rebel against the government and says stuff like “NOBODY insults my gal” and gets in fistfights with dudes who catcall their girlfriends. THOSE bad boys are the guys everyone wants.
We want the boys society says are bad, not actually bad boys
Classic bad boys went against the mainstream masculine society of their time. They embraced attributes that were considered girly: longer hair, use of hair products, appreciation in their appearance, enjoyment of art and music. They rebelled against the notion that as soon as you left high school you needed to work a respectable job, get married, and have 2.5 children. They were bad because they didn’t follow what society said a man should be, and that’s why it was attractive
I do love that this website is completely run by trans people. Like there’s a few cis people on here but they’re completely domesticated, we have little bells on them so we know where they are.
Posts that make me wonder if the trans people are okay, number 1: whatever the fuck this is
its a pretty nornal post
‘Wages and remuneration’ are not what’s keeping inflation high, says Bank of England at interest hike press conference – it’s how much you’re being forced to pay for food and clothes. But while companies gouge record profits, the Establishment is making you poorer
In an astonishing – or perhaps not, given the arrogance of the Establishment – Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey just admitted, at its press conference to announce yet another interest rate hike that will impoverish huge numbers of people even further during a ‘cost of living emergency, that your wages are not causing inflation.
Instead, companies making huge profits in the food and clothing sector are pushing up prices and driving the headline rate of inflation. In other words, what is causing inflation is them making you poorer.
But the bank is putting up rates anyway, pushing ordinary people who are already drowning even further underwater in the name of a crisis they didn’t cause – and are not fuelling now…
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There is a new Chrome extension that detects if a video you’re streaming has a strobe in it, will freeze the video and stick this warning up there until you approve it.
WHERE THE HELL HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE????
[image description: a screencap of the chrome web store, showing an extension called “seizsafe - epilepsy alert for youtube” and an example image of the extension, showing a blocked video with the text “warning: the following content may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy.” there is a toggle with an option reading: “don’t warn me again during this video. click here or hit spacebar to continue watching 👆”. end image description.]
chrome webstore link:
reblog to help photosensitive folk feel safe!!
FOR ANYONE WHO DOESN’T USE CHROME
I reached out to the developer of Seizafe yesterday about the possibility of getting this extension on Firefox, and got a lovely response back. They are currently working on a big update to Seizafe that will hopefully allow it to be available on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari, and will also allow it to work on other sites besides YouTube!
So keep spreading the word about this extension and keep an eye out—the dev wants to make sure this is accessible to more people who need it!
it is 100% possible to heal from trauma you feel you’ll never move past. I thought every trigger and flashback and sick feeling would follow me for the rest of my life but now it’s less of an inferno and more like embers dying down.
To my international friends: If you ever wonder why Americans are the way they are, just remember that 1/3rd of all US citizens are in a cult that teaches them to suppress the activity of their prefrontal cortex, particularly when it comes to doubt, critical thinking, and differentiating emotional responses from personal values.
1/3rd of Americans are Evangelical, and Evangelical Protestantism is a cult. We just don’t think of it as one because it’s so normalized. However, it follows the B.I.T.E. model of cult dynamics.
Evangelism teaches its followers to always maintain states of bliss and ecstasy for Jesus. What this does is condition the brain to always operate out of less-evolved parts; areas that are responsible for more primal emotions like euphoria, anger, and fear. Because of how we’ve evolved to survive, the brain will actually shut down our higher functioning—including critical thinking skills—in favor of these primal emotions, when they’re active.
Always feeling bliss = never questioning or feeling doubt. Evangelicals may actually fear the thoughts that do originate from their higher brain-parts because they think it’s the devil tempting them away from their religion. They’ll engage in self-indoctrination techniques to make this stop.
This creates a cognitive dissonance so great that many Americans have no separation between how they feel and what they believe. This is really bad because their minds have literally no defense against undue influence. They’ll vote for the dude who hyped them up enough. They’ll buy into the conspiracy theory that excites them the most. They’ll side with whatever gets the best reaction out of them, and getting a rise out of people is super easy to do.
Things like financial insecurity and low employment make this worse, too.
And just to be clear, this kind of conditioning can happen to anyone, regardless of their intellectual capacity.
Cult conditioning has nothing to do with how smart or dumb people are. You can condition literally any brain with the right time and environment.
Counteracting undue influence is a skill, and like any skill, it needs to be taught.
Cult experts frequently point out that the smarter people are, the more susceptible they are to this once the initial hooks are in, and the harder they are to deprogram. This is because while this kind of conditioning does not rely on intelligence, the ability to rationalise does -- the smarter someone is, the better they can rationalise what they already believe, so if they’re committed to following their feelings, a smart person is much better at making it seem (to themselves as well as others) that they’re actually using logic and reason rather than making ad-hoc justifications after the fact.
Also, people who know (or believe) that they’re smarter than average tend to assume that this makes them harder to fool, conditon, or lie to. Which makes somebody much easier to fool, condition, or lie to.
So I am from the US but now live in Argentina, and as The American(tm) I often get reasonably asked the question, "Why are Americans, you know, like that?"
The best and most immediate answer I could come up with, and the one I've stuck to, is telling people that America is a country defined by being a haven for cults and religious extremists since its inception. And people are always like "god that makes so much sense."
But you know, the wildest thing is if I tried to tell any given American this (which I have) chances are they'd be like, "No way, that's absurd." And I think the thing is, if you're an American and have lived most or all of your life in America, this is just your normal. But when you live somewhere that is less saturated with religious dogma, cults and anti-intellectualism, it's readily apparent.
People who say bi erasure doesn’t happen need to realize Freddie Mercury is known as the most famous homosexual man when he identified himself as bisexual. If that’s not bi erasure I don’t even know.
Also PoC erasure, most people don’t know he was 100% Indian
Specifically he was Parsi.
Also raised Zeroastrian.
*zoroastrian
^^^ centuries of religious art featuring white-skinned blue-eyed Jesus have made that pretty clear
His real name was Farrokh Bulsara. He was born in Zanzibar.
Okay but why is “farrokh bulsara, from Zanzibar ” more inspiring and better sounding than “Freddie mercury from England ”?
Can I add this tidbit I found?
ID: “During a Queen concert in the 70s, a heckler shouted “you fucking poof” [gay slur] to Freddie Mercury during the middle of their set. Freddie responded by ordering the crew to turn the spotlight on hte man, asking him to “Say it again, darling”. The heckler cowered in shame.
There is no way the first person to make one of these was neurotypical
I'm gonna reblog this video again, but this comment reminds me.
Of course I have no actual scientific backing for this thought process, but: during a conversation once, someone described autism as "an evolutionary necessity for social creatures like us." Their logic is that, with all of the social and "pack" demands we're constantly concerned with, there we need someone to get shit like THIS done.
We've always need the neurodivergents who don't care about social norms, the ones who can't quite follow stupid and arbitrary rules, the ones who aren't focused on being the biggest dick in town. Because those are the ones who say "I really fucking like plants. I'm gonna pay utmost attention to them and learn what they look like and what happens when people eat them or what happens when I dry them out;" those are the ones who notice patterns in animal movements or language or vocalizations; those are the ones who go "I don't mind being alone with my thoughts" and go on journeys through mountains and forests and discover things.
We've also needed (mild) distraction tendencies like ADHD: you might be having a conversation with a village member and stop suddenly and ask "do you hear that bird call?" as the crows sound a danger alarm.
To have a fellow human - who, by all accounts looks and sounds "right" to our human brains - function a little different as we explore as nomads or settle as farmers must have been paramount to progress. Just like getting someone's fresh eyes and different perspective can help you solve a problem.
You're laughing? This man is on stage spitting facts, and you're laughing?
This blog will always be in support of people with subclinical or undefined disabilities.
As we see with the recent narrowing of the diagnosis of autism, as well as how the definition of EDS was narrowed, the diagnosis criteria for disabilities is not purely scientific, and often carries motivations that are closely tied to ableism. If someone is subclinical for a disability but is suffering from or limited by it, that will be respected here.
The second is more personally motivated. We never found out what my father's most disabling disability was, but by the end of his life, he couldn't be touched without experiencing pain. The fact that I can't put a name to his disability does not mean that he was not disabled.
Not knowing how to name your disability is isolating and frustrating. But here, you are part of the disabled community.
I hope that you get the care and accommodations that you need, even without a diagnosis to put force behind it.



























