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This is a callout for abusive parents who ruined our holidays.

Fuck you for every second you forced us to spend time around you.

Fuck you for every present we were forced to accept or give you.

Fuck you for forcing us to pretend and socialize when all we wanted was to get the hell away.

Fuck you for making us too scared to tell anyone about what you did to us.

Fuck you for forcing us to pretend that everything’s alright.

Fuck you for having us help you keep your disgusting secrets.

Fuck you for every threat and manipulation that had us behave the way you want to.

Fuck you for every time you had us pretend we were a family.

Fuck you for using holidays to make us feel like it’s time to forgive you.

Fuck you for making this time filled with flashbacks and stress.

Fuck you for taking away from us this little rest we were supposed to have.

Fuck you for being nothing but a burden on our lives.

Keep the hell away from us this holidays, and every fucking holiday afterwards.

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Shoutout to the breakers of generational curses.

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Update: 11/23 WOW. Firstly, I’m totally overwhelmed and honored by the response this piece has gotten. Seeing it resonate with so many people has sincerely moved me. I’m so incredibly happy that it means different things to different people.

A couple people have sent me messages asking if they could have my blessing to get the Ouroboros tattoo’d on them.

The short answer to that is- absolutely. I would be honored. If you do so please tag me! I would love to see the final product=^} this is a very personal piece to me and I hope to get it on myself soon.

However; I am apprenticing to become a tattoo artist myself and while there is absolutely no pressure, I would greatly appreciate anyone using the design as a tattoo to consider donating to my donate links any small tip they could spare to help support my art as I pursue this career. It’s really tough now doing unpaid work during the pandemic and It would really help me since I can’t afford to currently reproduce any designs. (Donate: www.paypal.com/paypalme/Tagtaylorsit) again, absolutely no pressure. I know times are tough.

If you feel inspired by the Ouroboros and would like to do your own artwork that is totally fine, who am I to stop another artist from expressing themselves? If you would like to draw this particular design on something (someone talked about painting it on their jacket, which I thought was really cool) I am cool with that as well. However; I would like to produce a small run of patches or pins of this design so I do ask that you refrain from selling products using my art.

=^) I love reading everyone’s stories about how they are ending toxic cycles in different forms in their lives and support all of you in your battles. Thank you all so much.

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So I was taught a lesson in how to get rid of a migraine in 30 seconds and omfg listen my migraines don’t go away ever but I was shown what part of my body to touch and like???????????????

It’s witchcraft????????? Like I would be burned at the stake if I lived in ye olde days knowing that information?????

What the fuck??????

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Welcome to the space age, ladies and gentlemen

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Plurality is caused by disociation between the ages of 4-9, BUT trauma isn't necessarily the only cause of disociation, so I personally believe that endo systems can exist but they still have to have disociation.

Hey dear anon! Sorry but thats...wrong.  First of all, the trauma is what causes the degree of dissociation thats needed to develop DID/OSDD, and it does not have to happen between the ages of 4-9 but under the age of 7 (in some cases 9 but that is very very rare) due to the integration of personality thats (usually) happening in childhood and the heightened plasticity of the brain. Yes normal people dissociate but not to the point where entire parts of their memory, (self) perception and identity are “cut off”.  DID/OSDD are trauma based disorders, nothing but a specific, severe, type of childhood trauma can induce not only the heavy dissociation but also the neurological malfunctions and “scars” we see in fMRI´s of patients.  Take care!

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You are allowed to grieve for what you lost when you went through trauma. You are allowed to mourn. You are allowed to be angry. You are allowed to feel. 

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💕 don’t feel guilty for doing what’s best for you 💕

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I don’t know if anyone needs to hear this but “we all respond to trauma in different ways, not just pretty palatable ways” and “we are accountable for our own actions, even actions born from trauma” are not contradictory statements

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ableist parents be like, “if i dont let you get tested for your mental illness, youll never get diagnosed with anything, which means there’s nothing wrong with you so i can blame all your behaviour on you being a bad person”

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one of the most important things i’ve learned in therapy is that when you’ve experienced prolonged trauma in your childhood, pleasure feels uncomfortable. like, not that you don’t feel it, but that when you do feel it there’s an impulse to make it stop, because it’s extremely unfamiliar. and pleasure can mean many things, as simple as feeling cozy, and as complex as feeling loved. the neural pathways for feeling good have not had a chance to develop, and the neural pathways for feeling bad are quite practiced. feeling good, too, takes conscious practice.

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consider this: wheelchairs should be free

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one more person lumping headmates in with cringe/kin tumblr is all it will take for me to fucking snap

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u know last night i was in a State and said this but its valid so im saying it again on this blog:

some of you never had to trade your morals for survival/safety and it shows

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Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters.

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*learns basic social skills well into my 20s that most people know by the time theyre like 11*