#corvidforest

[thecorvidforest]

just a reminder that insulting the way people speak because it’s “weird” (i.e. too fast, too slow, too monotone, too animated, slurred, etc) is ableist. many of us with intellectual disabilities, developmental disorders, autism, traumatic brain injuries, physical disabilities, and other conditions speak “weird” because of our conditions.

i see posts all the time like “POV you’re talking to that person who talks like they’re in an anime” or “people who speak monotone are so creepy, they’re like robots” or “people who slur their speech gross me out”. it’s ableist and dehumanizing. insulting the way “certain people” speak may seem harmless on the surface but under the surface those “certain people” are almost always disabled, and these traits are just traits of our disabilities.

[thecorvidforest]

PLEASE can we normalize proper flash warnings and requiring an option to disable flash effects in video games. i am so sick and tired of finding a video game i want to play with no flash warnings anywhere, only to discover there are full screen flash effects with no option to disable them. STOP MAKING YOUR GAMES INACCESSIBLE TO PHOTOSENSITIVE PEOPLE I BEG OF YOU

[thecorvidforest]

DID/OSDD culture is a subtle switch happening and only noticing it because you immediately get way worse at whatever you’re doing

[thecorvidforest]

hahaha autistic people like sharks hahaha (do sharks too wonder what crime they've committed, to be so despised? do they ask mother nature why she created beings who turn so readily to violence against anything that dares to be different than them? i pray one day humans will not be synonymous with death and mockery and tiny glass cages)

[thecorvidforest]

gentle reminder to those with EDs, allergies, or literally any condition that interacts with food, who are also trying to boycott for Palestine:

if not getting a certain brand means you wouldn’t eat, get the brand. if not getting a certain food means you wouldn’t eat, get the food. yes, even if there’s a boycott. do not let people guilt you into self-endangerment. in order to work, activism must be sustainable and must involve radical self-care. of course do your best to find other brands, but if it comes down to it, do not starve in the name of activism.

[thecorvidforest]

if i see one more person say something like “teachers are quitting because the kids are getting meaner, so parents need to learn how to discipline your kids” i’m going to fucking scream.

the kids are not getting meaner because they’re spoiled. the kids are not getting meaner because of gentle parenting. these are not spoiled children, they are traumatized children. these are trauma behaviors.

they have to go to school every day with the knowledge they might get shot up. almost four years ago people started dying and becoming disabled from COVID, it never stopped, and they’re told to ignore it. for all they know, the earth might become uninhabitable in their lifetimes, and they are powerless against all these things. they are traumatized. stop putting the blame on innocent kids and individual parents.

[thecorvidforest]

your intrusive thoughts don’t make you a bad person. your intrusive thoughts don’t reflect who you are. your intrusive thoughts aren’t secretly your beliefs. your intrusive thoughts won’t send you to hell. your intrusive thoughts are not your fault. your intrusive thoughts are a symptom. you are not a bad person for experiencing them.

[thecorvidforest]

look i get the spirit but can y’all please stop referring to all people who use neopronouns & xenogenders as “just kids who want to express themselves”? like yeah some of us are kids but a lot of us are adults, myself included, and i’m getting pretty sick of well-meaning allies accidentally insinuating that our gender identities & expressions are childish. thanks

[thecorvidforest]

something stressful: happens

our brain: y’know what would make this easier? if we were 14 years old

[thecorvidforest]

DID/OSDD alter roles we’ve coined! this is just for fun, feel free to use.

inspired by @butterednuttered! all credit to them for the idea, we thought it was really neat and wanted to do our own. i hope this is okay!

CERBERUS: a Cerberus alter guards certain alters, subsystems/sidesystems, or locations in the innerworld. they might keep locations/alters/groups of alters from being discovered, keep alters or groups of alters from interacting, protect locations/alters/groups of alters, etcetera.

GARDENER: a Gardener alter provides long-term care to a specific alter or group of alters. they might act as a therapist, mentor, parent, or caretaker to the alters under their care.

ACADEMIC: an Academic alter is an alter who fronts to handle academia & education such as homework, absorbing information from lectures, study groups, research, etcetera.

HELLFIRE: a Hellfire alter is an anger holder. they might not act on their anger, but they exist to process and feel anger for the system. their anger may be extremely intense and never fully fade due to their role.

JESTER: a Jester alter uses humor in order to diffuse tension. they might tell jokes, pull pranks, pretend to be extremely clumsy, etcetera to get others to laugh at them or with them.

TREASURER: a Treasurer alter is an alter who handles finances for a system. they may do things like hide passwords, budget, make sure others aren’t spending money, etcetera.

MIRROR (specific to autistic systems): a Mirror alter is a form of social protector who mirrors others in order to mask. they might study mannerisms & expressions in media, create and memorize scripts for social situations, absorb and mirror the mannerisms and language of others, etcetera.

HOLLOW: a Hollow alter is an amnesia holder for the system. their amnesia is more intense than baseline for the system, such as experiencing blackout amnesia when the system normally experiences grey-out amnesia.

WATCHER: a Watcher alter is an alter who doesn’t show themself to the others, but is always watching. they may be at the corner of the system’s mind, but other alters may never get a grasp on them unless they choose to reveal themself.

LOCKBOX: a Lockbox alter is a trauma holder who continually takes memories of trauma as they happen and is the only one (or one of a few) who has access to those memories.

WARDEN: a Warden alter enforces rules within the system. they may punish or limit alters who disobey or break rules. some may be persecutors, others protectors.

[thecorvidforest]

i wish allos would stop painting aromantic/asexual folks as if we’re missing a piece. i love being aroace. i am not lacking or lesser for not identifying with certain social constructs of love. being aroace is just as fulfilling to me as being allo is to others. i’m happy this way.

[thecorvidforest]

yes sure you support all systems but are you normal about RAMCOA survivors

[thecorvidforest]

just got hit by an unskippable youtube ad with intense fullscreen flashing. now i’m gonna get a migraine, and i’m very lucky that a bad migraine is my worst case scenario these days.

here’s your reminder that epileptic seizures can kill people and can start within seconds. there is no reaction period with which to look away. if you’re putting something with flashing out into the world without a flash warning or any time to react you’re participating in inaccessibility at best and peoples’ death at worst. imagine killing someone because you couldn’t be bothered to write “flash warning”.

add flash warnings & time to react, if you must have flashing at all. it’s not that hard.

[thecorvidforest]

if any of my lovely moots or followers see a post floating around about how RAMCOA (Ritual Abuse, Mind Control, Organized Abuse) is supposedly an antisemitic conspiracy theory asserting that there’s a global underground cult network doing occult sacrifices please know that person has an extremely incorrect idea of what RAMCOA is.

RAMCOA doesn’t mean global cult doing sacrifices. it’s an umbrella term about a few specific types of abuse. “organized abuse” doesn’t mean global cult. it can be as small as a single family. “ritual abuse” doesn’t mean occult sacrifices. rituals can be literally anything. “mind control” doesn’t mean a secret memory wiping machine, it means programming (and other things).

and no, the RAMCOA community doesn’t have a secret dark agenda to convince all trauma survivors that their missing memories must be because of some memory wiping machine belonging to a secret underground sacrificial cult. most of us seek out every possible alternative explanation before looking at RAMCOA, and we encourage others to do the same.

i can see how they got there from the perspective of someone who knows a lot about antisemitism and nothing about RAMCOA but to assert the entire thing is fake is extremely disrespectful and dangerous. i won’t go into specifics of what RAMCOA is exactly because that would be too triggering for us, but please don’t form your opinion off a post from someone who is not a RAMCOA survivor and has a fundamental misconception of what it means. thanks.

also please don’t seek out and send hate to the OP. and please don’t send this post their way, we have no interest in discoursing about this. this is just a PSA for our followers.

[thecorvidforest]

OCD culture is experiencing the most awful debilitating symptoms that keep you up at night and lowkey make you want to die (not an exaggeration) but not being able to talk about it because everyone thinks OCD is just liking things to be tidy and line up and if you talk about your symptoms you’ll be told you’re a terrible person and should be locked up in a psych ward

[thecorvidforest]

personally i think every time someone uses the term cult to refer to something very obviously not a cult (i.e. a friend group, capitalism, a fandom, etc) all cult survivors should immediately receive $20