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AITA for giving my housemate gender dysphoria?

I (32F) recently got a gig as a live in housekeeper for a haunted mansion. I'm like 85% sure the job posting was a scam to try and feed me to the house in order to stave off its eternal hunger for another decade or so. But it pays alright and I don't have to pay rent as long as I'm living here.

One of the ghosts (~250M(?)) possessed my body a few nights ago, but instead of, I don't know, making me climb onto a blaustrade or something, he got real quiet. I don't think he ever possessed a trans woman before and he just kinda spent the whole night staring at my hrt pill bottles.

Since then, he's still been wandering the halls at the stroke of midnight, shattering all the mirrors that mysteriously regenerate by morning, but it seems like his heart hasn't been in it.

(Are the mirrors symbolic of something???)

He (she?) is definitely going through some shit. I don't *think* I did anything wrong, considering he was the one who possessed me, but I still feel really bad about it.

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Polymind is a bit fascinating because it ends up unintentionally showing why system terminology ends up not being exclusive to any one specific group.

Like when you try to describe plural experiences in a way that tries not to use an existing plural definitions, it shows a lot more blatantly that at its core we do all have the same experience of being more than one. Any term you make has a high chance of applying to the other group.

Then when you get into the terminology needed to actually describe those experiences, you find you kind of need most of the shared terminology otherwise you need to recreate the whole damn lexicon.

Like the reason terms get shared is more like "We have DID need a fast and easy way to describe fictional alters. Oh, soulbonders have a lot of terminology for this already that fits what we need, we'll start using fictive and source."

Or "We're a non-disordered system and need a way to describe one headmate taking over. Oh, medically there's switching and front, that's a fast and simple way to describe it."

And like a lot of subcultures online are like that and when you try to fight it you end up with complicated and not very practical terms. Especially when there's terms that have been used for over 30 goddamn years that are simpler and easier to use.

Hell even trying not to use any existing plural terminology, Polymind ended taking a lot of them unintentionally (i.e. part, ageling, little, protector).

It also highlights an issue where unless you do deeper introspection, which is not always practical for... obvious reasons, you probably won't know exactly what you fall under. Expecting people to look in depth trauma history to figure out what terminology they're allowed to use is despicable.

Also that the problem is at its core that people don't think we should exist at all and that the terminology stink ends up being more of a way to make harassment and fakeclaiming seem "justified" and also a method of erasing history and separating systems from resources/making them harder to find but eh

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THIS!!! oh my GOD

There should be more resources for tourettics, especially adult tourettics. All the resources I find are for parents of tourettic children.

THERE SHOULD BE AS MANY RESOURCES (if not more!) FOR PEOPLE WITH TOURETTES AS THERE ARE FOR PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH TOURETTES!

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I’m working through my thoughts and theories and I’ll have so much more to say but I will for now say I LOVE BEING RIGHT THAT JAX IS LIKE THAT FOR A REASON.

He is a jerk for self preservation. His last real and close friend abstracted and he doesn’t want the same fate, which is probably why he’s not only been so emotionally detached but actively trying to push everyone away by irritating them and instigating problems. Attachment can cause so much suffering and in a place like the circus, where everyone can succumb to abstraction, it hurts too much. He doesn’t wanna care about anyone else again just to lose them again because it HURTS and he’s ONLY 22 he’s a BABY.

And he’s TRIED to be actual friends with Pomni throughout the whole show and particularly this new episode. So her “Do you have any actual friends?” question when he’s tried so hard and WAS actively trying to open up to her seconds before was so hurtful. And Ragatha did not help. At all.

He’s the youngest out of all of them and I wish everyone would give him a little more grace and kindness, then maybe he wouldn’t be so much Like That.

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i think Salem deserves a big fucking tail

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here's the story. i know expressvpn has been recommended in some 🏴‍☠️ how-to posts but it is not trustworthy. the parent company, kape technologies, not only used to distribute malate but has ties to multiple state surveillance agencies. and be careful where you look for info about good vpns, because kape technologies owns a bunch of "vpn review" sites too

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Joy's joyfriends 💕

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Once US civil war 2 happens, Cuba should take Florida while they're not looking

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To me in 2016: if youre still on this website, fuck you but i understand

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One thing I’ve noticed is a lot of people will unpack their unconscious biases only related to the groups they are apart of and just refuse to do the same for other groups. And then act like you are attacking them when you point out they have unconscious biases they have to unpack and confront still.

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All of my favorite funnybunny moments from the trailer! (+ my thoughts / blurbs on each of them) Major spoilers so be warned!!! (I will also add several spoiler tags)

Jax helping Pomni shop for a gun.

Oh she is definitely looking at Jax.

I wonder why they're team Bad Guys? Is it because they won the Wacky Watch vote? Or maybe just because of Jax?

Seems like Jax hasn't felt the touch of someone's hand in a long time...

I also love how it looks like Pomni is just ready to fight for Jax.

Jax's acrobatics are incredible! I love Pomni's little gremlin smile at him. I can't wait for the action scenes in this episode!

We need more Pomni with guns. She is having the time of her life.

What are they planning?... 😏

This. Is my favorite shot of the whole trailer. And it will definitely become a meme format.

It's nice to see how Pomni seems to be encouraging and supporting Jax this episode.

My second favorite shot hands down. They will kill for each other.

Not them smiling and spinning each other with guns in their hands and having the time of their life I can't even 🥹

Jax smiling at his little gremlin girlfriend lol.

It's giving the vine "Let me see what you have." "A knife!" "No!-", except Jax totally supports it.

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OK MAN YEAH SURE

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oh and that gap in my resume is when i was digging my own grave

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yellow isnt even a nice colour u should be blue like me!

I think colours are prettiest when they sit together with their friends

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you will never ever be a normal person and you have to find beauty in that or you'll die empty