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I do agreed with your said and advised , I'm thinking over and over and found that person have her own issue to said that on me also

Yeah don't take other people's rude behavior as a sign that YOU'RE not good enough. I mean they're the ones being mean.

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Kids being annoying in public is one thing, but it's different in enclosed spaces like trains or planes. There should be child and baby free areas, or one of these days I'm gonna snap and scream back in their face

If you do, that makes you the fucking asshole

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What can I do, work out to be better me

I wish I could offer you some universal solution, but often people mistreat us not because we're not good enough, but because THEY'RE mean. So one thing you should definitely do is try to untie whether people are rude to you from whether you are good enough. It doesn't usually work like that. In most cases people are mean not because you're inherently not good enough, but because they have their own issues that they're taking out on you. This doesn't justify it at all, but you can rarely actually escape bullying etc by "becoming a better you" because abuse is not fair like that.

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I actually get judge by others person on my workstation,but I don't share here

I'm sorry to hear that.

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it was a mistake that, in fighting to de-pathologise queerness, a lot of people ended up arguing that there is a defined group of experiences that should be pathologised, but that being queer is not one of them. a lot of queer people have gotten far too comfortable with the authority and power granted to medical and psychiatric systems because. well. they were wrong about homosexuality in the past but some experiences are objectively deviant and non-normative and need to be subjected to an external authority

even now, when people argue against “gender dysphoria” as a diagnosis, there is often this undercurrent of “because our experiences aren’t the experiences of a crazy person”. well imagine if you were, legally speaking, crazy. imagine if you were no longer trusted to self-report on your internal world and your own best interests. imagine if you could have autonomy removed from you at a moment’s notice because it’s “for your own good”. you have to get more comfortable softening the lines between the sane non-disordered transsexual and the insane/disabled/disordered/diseased. nothing else is satisfactory

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What's your opinion on one person is judging by others person

I'm still not sure I get exactly what you're getting at here, but generally I think we need to be careful not to pass quick judgements on people we don't actually know. I think attempts at making a final moral judgment of a whole person based on a limited first impression or "vibes" or whatever are very likely to be biased and bigoted in some capacity - unless said person is actively and directly mistreating you, in which case you can judge all you want.

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What's your opinion judging by others

I don't understand the question, can you rephrase it a bit?

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The asexual get-together I went to was very unstructured, loud and extremely hostile to people who didn't already have friends there, and I am very sure I would have left feeling completely dejected within 30 minutes if it wasn't for the continued efforts of an autistic 63 year old trans fem (all info she willingly shared with me and elaborated on) who noticed me sitting awkwardly by myself and cheered me up by infodumping to me for almost the entire 3 hours I ended up staying there. I super appreciated the efforts of this socially awkward, clearly introverted lady who could just as well have spent her time on something else or gone home herself, but who chose to show me kindness, open up to me and stay by my side. Thanks to her it became a mostly pleasant experience to go, though the setting itself definitely isn't ideal for someone like me. (Or her, I suppose.)

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Hi,

Idk if you heard, but scientists found that antibodies in llamas could treat schizophrenia!

Thoughts on that?

https://www.cnrs.fr/en/press/llama-antibodies-new-therapeutic-avenues-against-schizophrenia

That sounds like the usual pro-psych pop science to me, but to be fair I don't have it in me to look closely at the study, so it's probably more relevant to ask someone who actually has that skill.

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I've been hearing people complain that autism and ADD/ADHD being overdiagnosed for literal decades. They don't see to realize that the more we learn about something the better we get at recognizing it.

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i dont actually know many if any disabled people who are against the word disabled like the backlash & desperate need for a different term seems to come primarily from abled people who see equate “disabled” with bad/broken/stupid/pitiful & want to solve that by cyclically switching to a friendlier word rather than actual doing the cultural & internal self reflection necessary to tackle WHY any word for us quickly becomes an insult/“negative” word in the modern lexicon

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"go to therapy" is just new "confess your sins to your priest" which ultimately is "you are having thoughts and doing actions that make me deeply uncomfortable and i think the thoughtcrime police should beat you back in line"

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like I consider myself antipsych but I am not under the impression that I’m superior as a human being to people who use psychiatric frameworks to describe their distress. And you cannot argue with the convenience of saying “I have bipolar disorder” vs saying “sometimes I go for a week without sleeping and get weirdly aggressive and paranoid.” Like I’d actually say the first a lot more than the second if I could guarantee that that wouldn’t make people think less of me as a human being

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A lot of people don't realize how crushing sudden disability is. If you don't have a good support system you're screwed. Coming to terms with your inability to do what you could do easily even a week before is really hard. You need people you can trust and who can advocate for you. If you don't, you're fucked. Disability services are useless and dehumanizing. Not being able to work suddenly can literally kill you.

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People are new kinds of cruel to the chronically anxious on this website. Just break a lifetime of conditioning! just do it! there's no real reason you're anxious! it comes from nowhere! just undo the decades of conditioning to minimize yourself for everyone's benefit! if you don't it's your fault! It's so easy there's so many resources for it like the expensive doctor who will call the cops on you if you say the wrong thing!