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the most eco-friendly product is no product at all

abolish police for safety
abolish prisons for justice
abolish private health insurance for public health

staring from the position that autism and schizophrenia have pretty similar presentations on the whole, and recalling that the modern psychiatric stereotype of schizophrenia was dramatically revised in the mid-20th century in order to pathologize Black Civil Rights activists, the intensification of anti-Blackness and police violence for Black autistics suddenly makes a lot of sense huh?

fun little-known fact, autism and ADHD are both documented to co-occur pretty frequently with hallucinations. this makes three (3) "different" "diagnoses" which, pragmatically speaking, are characterized primarily by
1) perceptible oddity
2) executive dysfunction
3) divergent sensory processing
4) (optionally) psychosis

what is the third (3rd) diagnosis not so far mentioned? schizophrenia. schizophrenics are the ones we subject most directly to madness stigma and are widely, not-very-consensually treated with anti-psychotics that are very hard to tolerate, and don't solve the problems that actually make it hard to live with schizophrenia.

what are those problems? social discrimination and functional deficits related to executive dysfunction — the classic "I know the lightbulb is out and I have a lightbulb and a stepstool, but I haven't replaced the lightbulb and it's been weeks" kind of problem, writ large.

these are, in fact, support needs common to autistics and ADHD people.

Hey fellow Bi and Pan folks!

Imposter syndrome is super common within our adorable little subsets of the community!

Worried you’re not Bi or Pan enough? That’s the imposter syndrome talking!

But you ARE!
You’re more than enough!
You’re awesome!

The witch glared at the spellbook.
"Fresh virgin blood," she muttered. "That's a stupid ingredient."
"Can't you use your own?" her raven asked.
"Depends on whether the author meant 'Never had sex' or 'Never had sex with a man'."
"Did a man write the spell?"
"Hah! Good question."
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories

Katherin Johnson, woman who was the focal point of Hidden Figures, the black woman who was the reason we were able to go to the moon...

she died today at the age of 101.

Godspeed. You deserve rest.

squaring the circle of "I want to fight assholes who suck until they're not a problem any more" and "I want to have sexually-charged fights with equally caped-up people, luxuriating in our elaborate set pieces and banter and just bein' gay together"

"Am I doing self-harm by doing this and need to stop, or am I coward if I back out and do something else?" - memoirs of a trans woman doing deep dives and examinations of transmisogynistic media and discourses.

Help I'm super gay

my girlfriend: you cannot be a weeb and a jock at the same time
me: yes you can
her: no you can't
me: you can multiclass
her: not with this
me: look, you can lift weights and read books at the same time
her: it's not about the reading books, it's about the contents of the books, you can't be a weeb while you're doing intensive physical labor
me: you can if you're a jock/weeb
her: that's not possible, there's been science done
me: cite
her: [laughing]
me: find me the study

I found out through a mutual that it's #SystemPrideDay.

If you're a system, I hope you can celebrate your identities and victories in a singlet-centered world. It takes strength to exist and thrive out there. 💖

I am too tired and sick to go into the full breadth of my thoughts, but speaking as a member of a bodily-PoC system who is becoming ever more weary of Westernization... please remember that DID, OSDD, the clinical, trauma-centric model of plurality, and to an extent, the rest of psychiatry

all of these are concepts largely created and dominated by white Westerners.

meanwhile, there are many non-white, non-Western cultures with their own concepts of manyness - many of which have been overwritten by the advance of "Western thought"

this does not mean that the clinical concepts are invalid or useless, or that people are bad for finding them helpful. but please be aware of what it implies, to claim that they can be the Only explanation (and that everyone who thinks otherwise is ignorant, malicious, fake, uneducated... "believing in fairytales.")

Their words:

"I think everyone's centered in their own reality, you know. I think part of the thing that's a problem, really, in the world today is this inability to acknowledge multiple realities, and this insistence that there has to be one dominant reality, and everything that falls outside that reality is false and untrue. And that's how colonialism worked in great part — people came in and enforced a reality and said, "Well, if you believe in anything else, if you believe in your indigenous deities, if you believe in these spiritual entities, then you're ignorant and you're backwards, and it's only because you haven't been educated by the West." And you know, there's this [thought that] everything that is outside the dominant reality becomes something that's pathological.

And with my work, I'm not really interested in trying to convince anyone to shift their center, I'm just refusing to shift mine."

{P} today, I saw a (diagnosed, to boot!) system get mocked and told they weren't a Real System because of their animistic spirituality, which influenced how they experienced their plurality

(to quote: "just because you believe in fairy tales doesn't mean we all do")

and all I could think of were the words of Akwaeke Emezi, who conceptualized their more-than-oneness through the lens of Nigerian spirituality