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i have never met an unpsychotic person who knows what it actually means to “not encourage the delusion” …not a single one

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People are fine with sadness, but the second you say ‘I hear voices,’ suddenly you’re scary.

Madness deserves compassion too, it’s just another form of pain.

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Far too much talk about how "dangerous" psychotic/schizophrenic people are. Far too little talk about how easy it can be for an abuser to take advantage of a person who is already labeled as "crazy". We're usually among the victims - not the perpetrators.

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"trans men can just act apathetic and confident to pass and avoid being hate crimed! I do it!" maybe YOU can do that, I can do anything and everything and still get bottles thrown at my head!

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In other news, my recent jirai kei outfits, because jfashion summer is in full swing and I’m loving it.

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hey, i’m half active over hete while i think about what the fuck i wanna say on disability stuff. i’m still a cripplepunk, but i’m also struggling mentally and finding a lot of comfort in the jirai community, which i engage with from a separate account. i love all my disability + cripplepunk mutuals but right now isn’t a good time for me to be advocating and on this blog. i’ll be back, just give me a few weeks to get myself sorted out.

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People with significant scarring aren't obliged to cover up their bodies to make you feel comfortable, but also visible scars aren't an invitation to start asking invasive questions either. It's still none of your fucking business

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you’d be surprised at how many doctors will tell you that schizophrenics shouldn’t masturbate, have sexual fantasies or write/draw erotica, let alone date or have actual sex, because it “distracts them from recovery”, as if schizophrenia is a two week course of antibiotics and not a lifelong neurotype and disability

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getting stared at on the bus because wheelchair users face everyone and my leg won’t stop shaking.

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can we not do our makeup in disabled toilets please???

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in case people weren't aware, BDS has called for a boycott of microsoft gaming products:

Cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription.

Boycott Candy Crush, Minecraft and Call of Duty – flagship videogame franchises owned by Microsoft.

Boycott all Microsoft Gaming products, including Xbox-branded consoles, headsets, accessories and all games published by Microsoft-owned publishing labels (such as Xbox Game Studios, Activision, Bethesda and Blizzard).

more info on the boycott and microsoft's collaboration with israel from bds' own website. microsoft is directly partnered with the israeli military, providing cloud services and ai technologies that actively contribute to the genocide of palestinians.

bethesda and blizzard are specifically named, but other companies under xbox game studios include mojang and obsidian entertainment - i'm highlighting obsidian here because (afaik) i haven't seen anyone bring them up specifically. i don't mean this in a condemnatory way, i'm an enjoyer of obsidian games myself, i just want to make sure people are aware.

For those who already own the games or the console, the organizers said, the ideal move would be to stop playing, but the primary ask from organizers is to help deprive Microsoft of revenue. Therefore, players can be compliant with the boycott by avoiding future purchases of games or consoles and by avoiding transactions inside the games.

a cultural boycott has not been called for, but there's no avoiding the fact that fandom is effectively free word-of-mouth advertising. i am not here to tell you what to do or act as your moral arbiter, all i can do is give you information and ask you to be conscientious. please refrain from making any new purchases or from encouraging other people to buy games/products that provide revenue to microsoft - consider donating to a gazan mutual aid fund, such as a campaign run by the sameer project instead

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Lines of thought that seem Normal but are actually rooted in extreme puritanism:

-Seeing the nude human body is inherently traumatic -Sex scenes in art are pointless -Wearing kink-related clothing in public is the similar to performing a sex scene in front of unwilling participants -Depicting female characters expressing sexuality is always degrading -People's sexual fantasies are always an endorsement of the behavior they want to see in real life -Sex work is more traumatic and coercive than other types of work The goal is to treat sex as just another thing people do. That is a much healthier attitude than hiding it! It's not uniquely traumatic, it's not weird to talk about it or include it in society.

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I don’t wear heels usually but my only flat shoes that I can wear with this outfit have been missing since I moved

my ankles are not happy.

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Some of you are going to have to realize really fast that posting on social media about your acts of resistance, or the acts of resistance of your workplace/student group, or things you're planning, or even about charitable actions like volunteering, is a stupid idea in the kind of climate where such acts are increasingly incredibly necessary. And that therefore you cannot and should not assume that someone is apathetic or not doing anything important based on their social media activity. And that some acts require secrecy to be effective and people might only be able to safely talk about them years later, if ever.

And then get off your high fucking horse about how people aren't doing anything, how no one is currently firebombing a Walmart, how "white women who say things like 'joy is an act of resistance' take no other acts of resistance" etc. I promise that right now many ordinary people you will never know about are taking actions that seem small on their own but will lessen harm in significant and tangible ways, and that those people are doing more good than anyone whose main revolutionary actions are snarkily complaining online. This is not the time to be tallying social media points and using them to judge each other.

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also facing a fear thing today and I transferred out of my wheelchair at uni to sit somewhere else!!

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I’m falling in love with Jirai Kei fashion, I just wish the communities were less toxic and I could see someone like me in them 😔