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i support the radical idea that the ICD and DSM don't determine what communities i belong to

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Not to be a 90s kid on main, but lately I’ve been questioning how much of my “Nostalgia” for older things is actually just… recognizing how many older things were actually better in some fashion. 

In particular the fact that I recently started using an old Atari computer from the 80s as my main music-composing computer really got me thinking - since I have no nostalgia for this computer whatsoever. Yet it literally has superior MIDI tracking speeds in comparison to modern computers. 

So much discussion of Nostalgia basically focuses on media. And you might make an argument for like hand-drawn cartoons, or video games actually being a complete package rather than an incremental DLC pipeline. However it’s hard to say those things are like… actually “Better” since there is so much subjectivity. 

Going back to audio tech, it just blows my mind that we went from an era of a single machine with a large number of functions - and now we are in an era where every function is sold in it’s own $500 box. 

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when aang is happy: air nomad

when aang is in the avatar state: air verymad

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It’s so fucking infuriatingly frustrating that so many of ao3′s userbase is so adamant that ao3 is nonprofit even though it’s owned by a corporation so that shit is a fucking lie in of itself, like. They invest in stocks and constantly people try and push this stupid as fuck idea that there’s no ads!! :)) it’s free!! when it’s been in beta for literal fucking years with one of the worst filtration and blocking systems I’ve seen to date and rampant disgusting nsfw that’s unregulated and crops up to previews for themes anyways so why do we constantly have to have mile long posts defending such a fundamentally bad website from it’s core instead of actually thinking critically for once I fucking hate all of you.

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fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals.  protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

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my biology professor has such a chaotic energy about him, last week i went to his office hours and somehow we ended up on the topic of gay marriage:

he said that when he lived in texas they changed the law to define marriage as “between a man and a woman in a house of religious worship with the intention to have children” so he filed his taxes as single and when they called him up like “you filed married last year” he was like “you changed the law, i was married by a judge in a courthouse and i have no intention of having kids” and they told him “you know who that law was for” and i guess he hung up on them and did not, in fact, pay taxes as a married man that year

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i made a guide for ppl

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For survivors of psychiatric violence:

Your trauma is real.  

I believe you.

You didn’t deserve to be abused.

You didn’t provoke it.

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“I’ll say it loud and I’ll say it clear. I am not mentally ill, never was, never have been, never will be. I am a survivor of abuse and I believe that I have had a perfectly natural human reaction to terrible experiences. And to frame my responses as illness, I think, is offensive. And I think we spend far too long talking about what’s going on in people’s brains, and not enough time talking about what’s happened in people’s lives.”

— Jacqui Dillon, The Personal is Political

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“The problem here is not with the fifth edition of the DSM, the problem is with the idea behind the DSM. The idea behind the DSM is that the old wine of human suffering (you can read read that w(h)ine with and without the h) can be poured into the new skin of medical technology. It’s a very interesting idea that we could take the suffering that we all experience, some of us more than others, and turn it into disease in the way we normally think of disease. The problem with it has been that it turns out that our minds are different in some way from our bodies. […] So again you have a wonderland quality about it where they are creating drugs for diseases that don’t really exist and guess what, they don’t really work very well. […] Psychiatry is a discipline that exists in perpetual crisis, which is really interesting if you think about it… […] It’s a bacterialogical model applied to the brain which is the most complex object in the universe…The idea that mental illness is just another medical problem, it has not been proved yet, this is really important to understand—psychiatry has yet to show that it’s understanding of mental illness as brain disorder works. […] There is not enough understanding of the power of a book like that. So what they have is a book that they don’t believe in that then becomes the basis of their authority. To me, that’s as cynical as it gets. […] The DSM is a response to the psychiatrists perception that everybody who objects to their profession is against them. We in the lay community call that paranoia. […] The definition of a disease that we all work with and that has caused all of this mischief in the DSM is that disease is a form of suffering that’s caused by a biochemical pathogen; the germ theory. We know that’s not really true.”

— Gary Greenberg, author of The Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry at Powell’s Bookstore with Will Hall

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“As a person who has experienced involuntary commitments, seclusion, restraints, forced medication, and intentional humiliation as part of my “mental health” treatment, I am still working through the severe and persistent effects of force and coercion. Being in circumstances in which I had no voice and in which I was not treated as a human being with viable thoughts and legitimate feelings hurt something in me, damaged my ability to feel safe and made me compliant in relationships for fear of punishment.”

— Faith Rhyne, Trigger Warning: Why Is It So Hard to Think About Torture?

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“We are the ones who call for an absolute ban on forced psychiatry. We are the ones who say, it is torture if it happens without the person���s own free and fully informed consent – that force is not only whether they hold you down and inject you but also what the neuroleptic does to you inside your brain and mind, even if you took it in your hand and put in your own mouth because you knew what would happen if you didn’t.”

— Tina Minkowitz, We Name It as Torture

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Me: *Is mentally ill* 

The mental health system: definitely what you need is some new and different abuse 

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“There’s no such thing as hurting someone for their own good. There’s only hurting someone for your own good.”

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Kate Bornstein

When you deprive people of basic human rights, submit them to torture, and abuse, Don’t allow them to move about freely (detain them without trial for no crime), take away their dignity, their bodily integrity, their ability to remain in their homes, to connect with the people they love, to choose how they spend their days: when psychiatric “treatment” is coercive, it often results in trauma, and harm. There are non coercive, non violent, respectful, dignified, effective ways to help people dealing with extreme emotional states or altered states of consciousness. There is no such thing as being hurt for your own good.

(via dreamsandzines)

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mad *clap emoji* pride *clap emoji*

a list-rant

1. there is not enough discussion of the benefits, nay, the necessity of mad pride + criticism of a compulsory medical model of madness on social media

2. there is not enough discussion of the place of people who have/could be diagnosed with what the medical community calls eating disorders in mad pride + how to approach such experiences outside the medical model

3. there is not enough camaraderie + discourse between mad pride + disability pride + their combined power to eat away pillars of capitalism so that this motherfucker will burn to the ground faster than it already is

4. i’m sick of being told that my suffering is pathological because it is not a pathology to experience psychological, emotional, or mental suffering under capitalism. full stop. capitalism is unsustainable therefore it is not a sign of illness not to be able to sustainably function within it. full stop.

5. it blows my mind that people still need suffering +/or extreme psychic/emotional states to be validated by a medical doctor as something outside our control in order to cease shaming + discriminating against people who are suffering +/or experiencing extreme psychic/emotional states. people only let gay people be gay if it was considered an illness for a while, too. you still have to get a diagnosis for a trans person to get care. it’s insulting to think that something is only valid if you “can’t help it”. how about we don’t shame difference? WOW

6. BTW criticism of the medical model does not negate, erase, or criticize biological sources or influences on madness, nor does it negate or erase the autonomous choice to imbibe pharmaceuticals or other chemicals in order to ease suffering or struggle. it opens up space for autonomous choice + diversity of frameworks without shame.

7. the autonomy of mad people living mad lives is inherently anti-capitalist + a source of radical praxis

8. mad pride is not ~*~romanticizing mental illness~*~. mad pride with a diagnosis of an eating disorder is not ~*~pro-ana or pro-mia~*~. the fact that y’all are so terrified of crazy + suffering people finding value, worth, + beauty in their lived experience is terrifying. let people beautify their lives. let people take up their own space on social media. if you don’t like how they do it, don’t follow them.

9. the fact that we’re working so hard to convince people who suffer that they’re not suffering enough if they can find value + sources of pride in their existence + experiences unless those aspects of their existence or experiences are normative is damaging ablist bullshit

10. as a psychiatric survivor, i’m not talking out of my ass. i have a stake in this.

thanks 4 coming 2 my ted talk

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This tiktoker shared some simple ASL for people to know to help deaf/hoh people communicate their needs while everyone is wearing masks !