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can i hear about the utah mormon stuff? im morbidly fascinated.

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Absurdly high sexual abuse (specifically CSA) rates, corresponding with influence from the mormon church (specifically in relation to sex education!), corresponding with absurdly high STI/D rates (specifically in areas where the mormon church has heavy influence in sex education), which is also connected to the CSA reports involving "private meetings" in mormon churches between church leaders and children.

There are numerous anti-porn organizations (including those with "sex therapists" to help "cure" people of their interest in porn), many openly against sex education, based in Utah and involved (if not financed by) the mormon church as well.

That's not even going into the targeting of trans/gay kids, the absurdly high and skyrocketing LGBTQ+ suicides (or the involvement in conversion therapy) in the area. It's some fucked shit.

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One of the breaking points for me with Christianity was realizing how much I had to contort the truth to make it look good. A few VERY common refrains from Christians are the whole "don't let the actions of one bad Christian keep you from God" or "broken people do not accurately reflect God's heart", all ways of saying that religious trauma is not actually Christianity's fault— I'm sure you've heard it before. But I reached this point where I couldn't stop myself from asking "how much longer do I have to make excuses for you?" The amount of fuzzing the corners and rephrasing of things I had to do in order to present Christianity as Good Actually was exhausting. The mental gymnastics I had going on were so extensive that at some point I had to just accept I was lying for and repackaging an inherently abusive program.

"How much longer do I have to make excuses for you?", I screamed at the sky

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you have nooo idea what id be capable of without the generational curse

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"Dissociation" as a term is kind of in a weird position compared to a lot of other medical terms that slowly enter public knowledge, because people expect it to be misused like OCD and delusions and so on; they assume people are using it for situations where it doesn't apply, that they are "watering down" an important concept. But the thing with dissociation is no, all these people who are using the term "dissociation" lightly are also using it correctly.

Zoning out is a form of dissociation. Daydreaming is a form of dissociation. Dissociation covers a lot of different things, from complex disorders to everyday behavior. People aren't "misusing a serious term" when they describe these experiences as dissociation, and they aren't hurting anyone who experiences more severe forms of dissociation by doing so. I'm not offended when people without DID describe their daydreams as dissociation, I'm happy that they can recognize there are healthy and everyday forms of dissociation, and so when they encounter dissociation in the context of trauma or a disorder, it hopefully won't be as scary to them.

This is a "yes and" situation, not a "no but" situation. Yes, zoning out is a form of dissociation! And this is how I experience "zoning out" as someone with a dissociative disorder! I'm glad you now have a better understanding of medical terminology and will hopefully be able to better understand any medical texts you come across in the future

If you're looking for people misusing "dissociation", I assure you there are still plenty of people who associate any mention of it with senseless violence. How about we tackle that first before deciding the word for a spectrum can only be used to describe the most extreme forms of it

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idk I just personally think that getting chills from music is the best part of being alive. like when a song is so good you can feel it in your whole body. that's why I'm here.

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with love. you have to fact check shit. yes you. you still have to fact check shit. a lot of people are great at fact checking stuff they don’t want to be true, but somehow are still absolute ass at fact checking stuff that’s rhetorically convenient to them. even people my age, who I KNOW grew up doing internet/bibliography literacy workshops, and being warned not to believe anything that isn’t reliably sourced, people who DO harp on fact checking conservative output or whatever, are still kneejerk sharing unsourced shit that is partially or wholly untrue or misleading, because it suits whatever narrative they’re pursuing in that moment, without even a “take this with a grain of salt”. fact check!!!!!! look at the sources!!!!! yes it’s a drag!!! do it!!!!!

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having anti punitive justice morals sucks because you want to say "man that guy sucks he should get hit with hammers until he dies" but you also want to make it clear you don't think anyone should be put in charge of the 'hit people with hammers until they die" machine.

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continually astounded to learn that someone around me is actually for real christian. like. aren't you supposed to grow out of that

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"ohhh i just don't understand how people can be racist it makes no sense!!! transphobia is just so strange and foreign to me i can't possibly understand why it happens!!" that's not something you should be proud of. it's really not that hard to understand the underlying motivations of bigotry. it is not noble or virtuous to act like bigotry is some mystical evil that none of us Good People™ can possibly fathom. your ignorance is not a sign of moral purity, it's just plain old dangerous ignorance.

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thank you osha thank you shift limits thank you mandatory breaks thank you overtime pay thank you labour laws thank you workers rights thank you unions thank you protesters thank you advocates thank you workers!!!!!!!

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I am both.

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happy PRIDE i’m here i’m queer and i believe the land should be given back to the proper indigenous stewards.

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From a state hearing in Texas