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Who taught that apple how to car?????

apple car^

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TW for abuse harmful coping and torture

My therapist has told me that there are no "bad coping mechanisms", let me explain.

I often heard throught my childhood that I had bad coping mechanisms, but without them I can confidently say I would not have survived to get where I am today. This isn't to say that these survival tactics are always helpful, as once you are finally safe it can be a challenge to switch over to the healthier ways of coping that have now become accessible. Almost every mental health professional that treated me before adulthood shamed me for having these coping mechanisms and focused on breaking them, instead of helping me escape the abuse and torture that I was being put through that led to me needing them. They knew that I didn't have any other option, which was intentional on the part of my abusers, but they didn't seem to care.

I am grateful that I had at least SOMETHING to keep me alive during that time. This leads me to similar feelings I have about having did, in my system we all view each other as a sort of family who can care for each other. I wish that I was able to be normal and healthy of course, but I didn't get that. Having did is the main reason I survived, and I think it is beautiful. The disorder itself didn't ruin my life, it saved me, the people who made me sick are to blame. I will continue to be grateful for this disorder and those past coping mechanisms as I rebuild myself and learn how to live.

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This needs way more attention than it has, this foundation supports adult survivors of childhood torture including more than only survivors of war related torture, and is one of the few, (only?) Groups that does this. Childhood torture is way more common than many people think and it is rarely talked about at all, leading many people to have little to no support or not even know it happened to them. Only about 60℅ of victims survive and as you can imagine life afterwards is hard especially when support is lacking. As a survivor myself I think this is very important and very often overlooked.

You can find more information on this foundation and childhood torture itself here:

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Do not stop talking about what is happening in Palestinian right now. I see so few posts about it recently. This is not another trend this is peoples lives. It would be incredibly disappointing to see the generation that is supposed to change things just forget about this like it means nothing. If you ever wondered to yourself what you would do during the Holocaust or any other event like that, what you are doing now is exactly that. Do what you can to be on the right side of history even if it doesn't seem like much.

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I really think they need to start teaching kids in schools that most blind people can see a little bit, most deaf people can hear a little bit, and most wheelchair users can walk a little bit. And they are still disabled.

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Art by @sugarycarousel on tiktok

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Prints

All profits raised from this print will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.

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The part of me that lived in that house died there, and I do not remember them, but I wish I got to meet them before you killed them so cruely.

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I don't know who wrote these but I relate to them

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Potate

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I can't bring myself to believe it's all the same world— not fully.

I can't believe all the hate, anger, fear, and hopelessness happened in the same world and to the same person as all the happiness, love, and hope for the future— all the normalcy.

I used to be unable to imagine any future at all. It feels like a long-lost nightmare now, a memory of a memory that I only borrowed from another person or a memory from a past life that was forgotten and left behind when all the others were taken.

I can't believe all the people I know now existed at the same time as me, that they were here the whole time, just living life, being themselves while I was being tortured and had no one.

It cant believe that they were all there, with me only not yet.

Maybe it was someone else.

Maybe it's not the same world.

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Antipsychotics