#cluster b abolition

[healingwgabs]

Saw your most recent post in the ASPD tags, don't post there if your going to be abelist.

It’s not ableist, ppl with these patterns thrive in our society and are quite overrepresented in powerful jobs and are quite successful (in this sense)! I’d go as far as to argue that our current society was built by them and for them to excel in, giving them an unfair advantage over others who carry more “light triad” qualities and aren't along the spectrum. Even if u look at the workweek, most ppl don’t function like that (they're wired differently)...I do recognize that these disorders are stigmatized, however, I do think that’s for good reason and those who have these diagnoses should be approached with caution. ASPD is a diagnosis that is more of a danger to others more than anything else if u read the criteria

[trans-axolotl]

for anon asking about NPD/ASPD resources

For context, anon sent in an ask searching for nonstigmatizing resources for support with PD diagnoses and other stigmatized diagnoses.

And this is such a good ask--it is so fucking frustrating and dehumanizing to try to search for support when half the stuff that pops up is using really cruel language or just directed towards family and friends. The community definitely deserves better, both when it comes to the way psych professionals perpetuate stigma and in regards to the prejudice and sanism that shows up in other communities in our lives. Unfortunately, I don't have a ton of resources on hand, although I do know one good support group. The rest of the resources I know of are kind of mediocre or not PD specific, so if other people could add on I would really, really appreciate it!

Neuromancers runs a discord and a Cluster B peer support group that I've heard really good things about. I haven't been myself, so I can't 100 % vouch, but they're a group with abolitionist and mad pride values.

This might not be exactly what you're looking for, but it's an article exploring cultural bias in PD diagnosis that links to a lot of sources that talk about how psychiatry contributes to stigma around personality disorders. I clicked through some of the studies that it links to and it does use a lot of medicalized language, but I thought I would link the article anyway in case it's ever helpful to have academic sources to show to other people.

Also not exactly what you're looking for, but another article debunking some of the common talking points about NPD in pop psychology (Content warning that it is discussing some very ableist myths in the context of challenging them)

Last sort of general resources for peer support that I have some trust that they are PD friendly are the Wildflower Alliance and Hearing Voices Network Groups. Wildflower alliance groups offer a lot of different general peer support and I have one friend with NPD who has spoken positively of those spaces. Hearing Voices Network groups can vary a lot depending on location, so defintely plan to email ahead, but I've been to a few groups that welcome people who generally identify as psych survivors/mad/ex patients who want to share community spaces around those values. Also want to share is the neurodivergent friendly workbook of DBT skills (the link is to buy it directly from the creator but if anyone who is interested can't afford it rn, dm me and I'll send you a pdf.) Again, I know this is really not super relevant to what you asked for but is one of the less stigmatizing, less medicalizing workbooks I can find for accessing info about coping skills and this is one of my general favorite support resources.

Overall I'm really sorry that I don't have better resources to offer you, and I think that really should be a sign to the mad pride/psych abolition/peer support community that we need to do a lot better job in making sure that our spaces are explicitly welcome to people with stigmatized PD diagnoses. The work shouldn't have to be on you to try to navigate these spaces and figure out whether or not you're welcome, and any spaces that offer peer support, are aligned with mad pride and psych abolition, really should be doing the work to make sure lateral violence and sanism aren't being perpetuated.

followers, esp followers with lived experience, please add on!

[crepuscular-girlthing]

do you think psychs treat personality disorders? because as someone who's been diagnosed with one before, and has seen A LOT of professionals, they don't.

"personality disorder" as a term-of-art has been primarily used like "hysteria" and "meltdown": it's there to give permission to end empathy and support, to blame the person for their illness, and change from a caring approach to a punitive one. there's a reason psychs are loathe to label people with certain cluster b disorders, and it's because they know it's a scarlet letter. there's no widely accepted effective treatment, and most therapists will either refuse to see you if you have a diagnosis, or drop you when/if symptoms of them present (because they aren't already managed.)

it's been 75 years since lobotomies were in fashion for treating these issues, and people aren't that different than they were back then, despite all that's been written in the meantime. if you can see political parallels between what's happening now and the things that happened in the past century, please extend that understanding to the material development of psychiatry and psychology.

i agree in principle that yes, ideally, treatment should exist. people shouldn't have to try to help their friends and family overcome decades or a lifetime of maladaptive processing and trauma. but saying "professional help is the responsible thing to do" stops being kind and becomes victim blaming when that professional help doesn't exist, or is so rare it's impossible for most people to access.

there's a huge culture online that it's Your Responsibility to get yourself care, and that trying to get help from the people in your life makes you a bad person. but no one is willing to believe the people suffering who say they've been trying to get help, and help isn't available. that most therapists would rather emotionally abuse BPD or histrionic patients than help us.

people don't want to believe psychs can't help, or can even hurt, people with psychological issues. but it's true for far more people than most would like to believe. more than most people would be willing to believe, i expect.

my hot take is that just because personality disorders shouldn't be pathologized as some incurable illness or Asshole Syndrome but instead should be viewed as the culmination of years worth of maladaptive coping mechanisms brought on by trauma there still needs to exist some form of nomenclature to categorize these states of being and you still most certainly should see a (trauma/systems informed) psych about them. i'm sorry but if these toxic behaviour patterns have been around for years especially decades i don't believe a supportive and understanding family/community is sadly enough to fix it, seeking professional help is the responsible thing to do if you have the self awareness to see the harm your actions cause to those around you

[facelessoldgargoyle]

When people see deviant behavior and comment that that person needs therapy, they’re not actually wishing that person well. They’re hoping to eliminate the deviant behavior, and failing that, to incarcerate them.

It’s also a gross misunderstanding of how therapy works. If you don’t want to be there, you won’t get anything out of it. I think people who say “they need therapy” do know it works that way, but they’re taking a mental shortcut. They’re imagining a deviant person who wants to change already, whom they can put in the Therapy Vortex and get a normal person out of it. If you’re intellectually rigorous about prison abolition, you have to grapple with the fact that you can’t incarcerate or therapize people into changing.

You also have to grapple with the difference between deviant behavior and harmful behavior! Someone who self-harms displays deviant behavior, which is harmful to them but not anyone else, and it’s your goddamn right to be mentally ill in a way that disgusts other people. If you want to stop, then therapy might be helpful, but it’s offensive to say that someone should get therapy just because you want them to stop.

Compare this to scamming people with fake blood testing machines. I saw people talking about how Elizabeth Holmes was a narcissist, a sociopath, whatever stigmatized cluster-B diagnosis they could throw at the wall. Maybe she is a narcissist. She doesn’t necessarily need therapy about it. She certainly doesn’t need therapy inflicted on her. It wouldn’t stop her from doing a scam again. She needs to be banned from the medical industry. Her actions were harmful, and we should address the actions, rather than trying to solve whatever the psychological cause was.

Much of this has been said before, but I’ve been seeing a lot commentary recently that criminals and deviants should go to therapy. IMO it’s a sanitized way to say “lock them up.”

[weemietime]

Blorbo

- Shayne or Weemie

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Common Questions

What is antisemitism?

"Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities." IHRA, International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

Antisemitism is spelled as one word, without the dash, as it is not bigotry against all Semites (Arabs + Jews), it is solely about Jews.

Is antisemitism the same as antizionism?

The 3-Ds of antisemitism are Demonization, Delegitimization and Double-Standards. If your criticism of Israel doesn't apply to any other country, if the way you talk about Israelis doesn't match how you talk about Russians, Iranians, Chinese, etc. then it is antisemitism.

What antisemitism is not

Criticism of Israel on its own (i.e. crimes, gov't, policies)

Palestinian self-determination

Palestinian flags, pride, culture

Criticism of religious Judaism (i.e. trauma, harm)

Is accusing Arabs/Muslims of antisemitism racist/Islamophobic?

It is racist to accuse Arabs of being de facto antisemites.

It is racist to presume Arabs are all Muslim as well.

It is not racist to acknowledge that Islam is foundationally taken from Jewish texts and histories, which have been misinterpreted and abused to justify antisemitic violence. It is not racist to hold Islam accountable for the imperialism that pervades its evangelical arm.

Just like it isn't racist to do the same for Christianity. And we hold this standard for Judaism as well. Just like it isn't antisemitic to criticize the harms that Jewish religion has caused for others (such as LGBT), it isn't Islamophobic to do the same.

How prevalent is antisemitism?

It's baked-in to two of the world's major religions, Christianity and Islam. Unfortunately that means antisemitism is the de facto sentiment of a majority of the world's population. Antisemitism is one of the oldest, longest hatreds. That means we are often subjected to historical revisionism, such as denying the severity of the Holocaust, or publishing encyclopedias, textbooks, as "information" with clearly antisemitic content pasted over real events. 

A good example is a look at the Wikipedia article for what Zionism is.

This clearly shows that Wikipedia is being subjected to antisemitic historical revisionism.

What is the alt-left?

We will use the BITE model for indoctrination as popularized by Steven Hassan in Combating Cult Mind Control. BITE stands for Behavior, Information, Thought, Emotion. The most common form of indoctrination is called a thought-terminating cliche, or a fallacy-fallacy.

For example:

P1: "Israel is committing genocide!"

P2: "How many people have Russia killed so far"

P1: "500,000"

P2: "Do you think Russia is committing genocide?

Should we eject Putin from the UNSC?"

P1: "That's whataboutism!"

Resist this "whatabousim" idea, as it is designed to terminate all objections to clear hypocrisy. Hypocrisy is different than whataboutism, because it is a double standard, one of the 3-Ds of antisemitism.

So what is Zionism?

Zionism is the acknowledgment that Jews are the indigenous population of Israel, who have a right to self-determination in their homeland. Zionism is extremely broad. Some people don't even require Israel to be the Jewish country (their goal is simply safety and community for Jews world-wide, in Some Place), but this is a more secular argument.

Some people believe Zionism is only applicable to Jews (i.e. you cannot call yourself a Zionist if you are not a Jew), others are OK with goyim using the term as well. You'll have to feel that out, as both sides of the equation have a right to exist. Personally I use Zionism in as broad a definition as possible, so it does include non-Jews, with the exception of Messianic Christians, and evangelical hoo-hah.

When you're discussing Zionism with a Jew, especially as a non-Jew, you need to listen to what they describe Zionism as. It is de-legitimizing (another of the 3-Ds) to claim that Jews can't be trusted to point out antisemitic rhetoric. Jews define antisemitism, and we define Zionism. They are words about us, for us. 

In some cases people will say wrong dumb shit, so refer back to the first part of what antisemitism isn't. E.g. if someone (even a fellow Jew) says holding a Palestinian flag is antisemitic, they are actually being antisemitic themselves.

Is goy a slur?

No, in fact the term "gentile" was popularized by the KKK. Gentile is based off of a Christian scholar's interpretation of the term goy (Saint Jerome). Goy simply means "nations", as in non-Jewish people. Goyim/goy is not a slur. Some people might use it derogatorily, the same way Black people might speak negatively about white folks who have been racist to them.

It's still not a slur. We prefer to use goy because it is our word, we like it, and it doesn't have a history of being lobbed at us by mask-wearing wizard KKK freaks. Terms like "zio", "zionazi" etc are also slurs developed by David Duke.

You're a conservative who believes in prison abolition and social justice blah khadl blargo de glarm hlblehgah?

Conservative Judaism is a progressive, egalitarian denomination of Judaism. We believe in conserving the spirit of the Torah, but produce adaptive Responsa as we gain more scientific and social understanding. it is not Republican/political conservatism.

Why do you post all these gibberish asks by idiots?

That's actually the reason I am here! To do outreach to people who are brainrotted. I was an extreme kid. I was indoctrinated into a violent armed gang at age 8, and we had a lot of the same ideology.

Violence is cool, and our enemies should die and be hurt, brutality should be rewarded, etc. I want to dismantle this pipeline. I want to use my experiences to be a force for good, because that gives meaning to my life.

But I get that it's annoying to constantly read bullshit, so you don't have to follow me!

Is Israel committing genocide?

So far, there is no evidence that Israel is committing genocide. Some Israeli politicians are saying genocidal rhetoric, but this is separate from genocidal actions.

[goobersnart]

Joyqueer

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I want to preface this coining post with the following:

This blog is not a discourse blog or a coining blog! We don't take requests for this stuff. If you start shit you will be blocked and ignored! ^_^

The emojicode (cus we're a sucker for 'em): 🌤️🌈

Feel free to do whatever the fuck you want w/ this flag, it's a pretty flag, have fun with it!

This is a long post, be prepared HELP

Joyqueer is essentially a blankqueer term where one prefers to focus on positivity. They try and look on the bright side of things, even in the darkest of hours.

Even though Joyqueer focuses on the positivity, it doesn't condone toxic positivity. We're not naïve, the world isn't sunshine and rainbows 24/7. We look on that side when applicable to ease life and stress because focusing on the bad 24/7 and being drowned in misery is painful and hurts.

This stance is for good faith terms/identities, follows P.L.U.R (Peace, Love, Unity (and), Respect), and users might spread positivity and joy amongst others.

This stance is supportive & inclusive of/to the following:

Mspec queers (ie mspec lesbians, gays, biles, bipan, etc.), gender anarchy (being a girlboy, transfemasc thing, having no gender while having gender, etc), & relationship anarchy (being aplatonic, being loveless, having sex with your friends and or doing things with friends that others consider "weird", polyamory, being with objects and or stuffed animals, etc)

System inclusive with the respect of cultures and against spreading misinformation.

Inclusive of ones with cluster B disorders and to educate about them and spread joy to the ones with the disorders that are suffering. NPD abuse doesn't exist, and pw HPD/BPD/ASPD aren't bad for existing!

Anticontact paraphiles that are just existing in a world that sadly doesnt understand them. attraction isn't action and no matter how ""harmful"" the attraction is (attracts cannot be harmful as thought crimes dont exist), you aren't a bad person for something you cannot control.

Anti-censorship in art and storytelling; fiction freedom in the largest of sense. Fiction isn't on the same level as reality, characters are the dolls you play with.

Youth liberation; realizing that the youth isn't stupid and that children are people too.

Atypical dysphoria and the ones that're nonhuman and or alterhuman, extranthrope, altsex, therian, objectkin, conceptkin, etc. A means to spreading positivity and joy to the ones suffering with odd and unusual dysphoria. This includes transhumanism and the personal choice of deciding what one does to ones body; this includes things that you'd find personally uncomfortable/harmful.

This stance is not supportive & inclusive of/to the following:

Transitioning to harmful transids (transnazi, transracist, transblack, transasian, etc.)

xenosatanism

any sort of harassment

antitheism/abolition of religion

Like I said above the cut, any sort of hate will get deleted. Spread positivity to the ones that need it, the world needs more positivity. If one has any questions, feel free to ask! :]

[imagoodone-iswear]

you think my username makes me seem pleading? it doesnt. it was a purely intentional, thought out thing. i explain my reasons for my username here.

Welcome to my mess of a blog!

You can currently call me Mawl. . .

→ bodily 25 years old.

→ Genderfuck Transmasc.

→ he/they pronouns.

→ DID system with BPD + NPD (+ SzPD + other stuff).

→ from central europe.

→ avid enjoyer of video games, psychology, wolves, metalcore, art, praise and attention, blood, and darker things.

this is our collective main PD Blog (mostly about cluster b). here to document life with my PDs and the other messy stuff in my head.

sometimes we post bad art for some reason.

(we also have a tellonym)

this blog isnt run by a particular alter so experiences can vary (mostly nobody will tag).

We also collect resources and diagnostic material for PDs:

cluster a: [ ppd resources ] [ stpd resources ]

[ szpd resources ]

cluster b: [ npd resources ] [ bpd resources ]

[ hpd resources ] [ aspd resources ]

cluster c: [ avpd resources ] [ ocpd resources ]

this blog has tws for:

shameful vents, blood, mentions of self-harm and substance abuse, npd crashes and the like (this is a pd blog so go figure).

this is our pd blog. we do not put a filter on our posts or things we talk about here for a reason, so if that content is not for you, you should leave or block us. naturally, vents and breakdowns are gonna happen and if you dont like it you can block the tag or leave.

minors DNI (we are in our mid 20s and dont want to have too much to do w -18s; might interact sparsely if we can relate to your blog, but rule is: everyone below 18 should generally dni and block us).

also not welcome on this blog are terfs, radqueers, radfems, transID/transX idiots, endos, strict anti-psychs (frequently or only posting about psych abolition = dont fucking interact), and ppl against researched self-dx!!

also narc abuse believers can take a hike (but feel free to give me attention~, i love living rent free inside your head <3 ;)).

[mariacallous]

To understand how the American media landscape fractured, one must first understand the brands that forged it. According to Faris Yakob, cofounder of creative consultancy Genius Steals and author of Paid Attention, advertisers created the neutral “view from nowhere” voice in media. In the 19th and 20th centuries, national brands looking to grow customers wouldn’t partner with biased publications. But everything changed when ad tech arrived.

“People started tagging their digital media buys so it wouldn’t appear next to topics like homosexuality, or Covid, to avoid getting into clusters,” Yakob says. “But that means that the news isn’t being funded. If you can pick and choose what topics to fund in news, you can distort what is being reported on, to some degree.”

That distortion, like the US Federal Communications Commission’s abolition of the fairness doctrine in 1987, is part of how America got into this mess. Similar to content recommendation algorithms, audience profiles in digital marketing created micro-targeted ads. Those ads are more valuable on multiple screens. Media executive Euan McLeod recalls growing up when “there was no choice” but to watch what his parents were watching. Now each person in a household might be watching something wildly different, and the shared experience has dissolved. Isolated artists are creating for isolated audiences. Is it any wonder that generative AI seems poised to tailor entertainment to audiences of one?

In this world, we can all be George Lucas, using technology to create special editions. Rick gets on the plane with Ilsa. Jack fits on the door with Rose. Ben Solo lives. As Marvel Comics writer Anthony Oliveira says, Andy Warhol was fascinated by the fact that people everywhere drank the same Coke. But the allure of AI content generation, he says, is the same as the Coca-Cola Freestyle: filling your own cup with someone else’s flavors.

But when everyone can just request the narrative path they want, opportunities to hear other people’s stories greatly diminish. “That is a very sad world to live in, because how else are we gonna be conveying our deepest hopes and wishes, what we think should be a vision of the world we want to live in, what we should worry about?" Yang says. "This is what story and art is for.”

Using AI to sanitize content in regions where certain subjects are banned is already possible, especially if actors yield likeness rights. Generative AI means that studios could edit or change the content of some films without consulting the people who signed a contract based on a script, and the only thing stopping them is the possibility of a defamation suit. It sounds unlikely, until you remember that multiple versions of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse appeared in cinemas.

And animation is an apt comparison: Most changes to entertainment production have made film and TV more like animation or video game development, not less. With current technology, actors can be little more than action figures smashing together, as weightless as they are sexless. With AI, the actors need never leave the trailer. Or exist.

“[Studios will] say it’s for the insurance,” says production designer Blass, suggesting a “Paul Walker scenario” in which a deceased actor’s performance needs generating, because that performance is one of the terms of the film’s business insurance. But in reality, these likenesses could be used to do things that actors would rather not—whether it’s a dangerous stunt or a sex scene.

Generative AI could also be used to edit films in real time, responsive to data-brokered preferences, with algorithms running A/B tests on how much nudity you want based on the customer profile you most closely match.

If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is: In the 1990s, Blockbuster Video refused to stock films like Natural Born Killers and The Last Temptation of Christ. But that tradition goes back even further. Otherwise known as the Hays Code, the Production Code was an industry standard of self-censorship guidelines for major US studios from 1930 to 1968, when it was replaced by the movie ratings system. The Code influenced everything from the Comics Code to parental advisory warnings to video game ratings. It’s why titles from major studios during that period don’t depict graphic violence. It’s also why they lack out-and-proud queer and interracial relationships. But today, a revived Production Code might have very different guidelines. For example, the Pentagon recently announced it would no longer offer technical support to filmmakers who censor their films for the Chinese market.

When I ask McLeod if he thinks America will ever re-adopt the Production Code, he’s unequivocal: “Absolutely. Everything goes in cycles.”

Hollywood’s Future Belongs to People—Not Machines

[healingwgabs]

self-care for me is blocking accounts that use cluster b

[egopathic]

I don't have a personality disorder, but I have had experiences with the psychiatric industry and am horrified by the way both it and society as a whole treat people with cluster b personality disorders. What can I do to be a good ally to people with cluster b personality disorders?

i love u for asking this thank u for such a kind question! unfortunately i have no solid answers.

honestly because the movement for the liberation of mentally ill people is largely online, that’s mostly where stuff this specific gets brought up unless you have a pd. so for that, just shutting people down when they start shitting on us or armchair diagnosing random people goes a long way. visibly including us in all aspects is just super helpful and makes it less bad to be a cluster b out loud online.

in real life there’s not much i can think of besides general involvement in antipsychiatry circles and stuff like breaking code silence since you’re a survivor yourself. those matter to all of us, no matter the diagnosis. other stuff, like organizing with local prison abolition groups and anti police movements are also great ways to help the movement. anything that brings the world closer to autonomy for all is helpful to cluster bs <3

[numbasafossil]

This is an experiment to help busy myself. I honestly haven't a clue for a theme, embrace the chaos.

About me; I am bi, someone who supposedly has multiple mental illnesses but I'll discuss this in time, and an addict, again I'm sure I will get more in detail with this. I'm the single mother of a really cool autistic and adhd teenager. Does any of this define me? No. I don't really care for labels, and putting myself into boxes. At one point I did and it helped "comfort my identity ". Then I saw it was not healthy and I was going backwards. One thing I am good at is adapting, and I am working on growing in a different way. I don't care what anyone else does or believes, if it's different from my beliefs that's fine. I only ask that you do not start shit, because I will never judge people. And you will be introduced to the block button.

This blog supports Palestine 🇵🇸. I support all religions but do not practice. I support all genders and sexualities, this is a LGBTQIA+ safe space. This is a safe space for all nationalities and ethnicities. I also stand in solidarity with all victims of oppression and genocide worldwide. I support prison abolition, and am antipsych. I'm pro choice and believe housing and health care are basic human rights. I still support anyone living with a mental illness or disability (this is neurodivergent safe).

If you believe in narcissistic abuse and that everyone you dislike is a narcissist, kindly go to another blog. Additionally if you demonize cluster b disorders, anyone who is neurodivergent or has a mental illness or addicts, this is not the place for you. Zionists, terfs, radfems, pro lifers , DNI. I'm sure that list will grow.

Happy new year?

[joy-haver]

[mutt-the-punk]

HAI

My nAme is River, I'm a scemo (Scene & emo)person who luvs new friends (Including you!! <33)

I use tUmblr as a kewl (cool) & fUn way 2 find new friendz and to find peOple whom have the same interEsts as mE (Interests later listed)

Oh no.. your computer has a virus! I'll help you out but you gotta listen first.

Dni: Homophobic, Transphobic, Racist, Ablelist, pro overturning of Roe V Wade, -12,+21, Andrew Tate watchers, Msi supporters, falling in reverse supporters (basic Dni), Cringe culture, mean, rude, anti tone tagsif you are &/or support any of the following:

* racist, anti-black, against blm, support alm/blue lives matter, against police abolition & acab. xenophobic, antisemitic, islamophobic, nazi, zionist, assadist. don't support land back. alt-right.

* pro-life, anti-abortion. map, nomap. use/say slurs you can't reclaim. aren't critical of interests.

* romanticize or glorify abuse, and/or mental illness. trauma invalidation. think [emotional] neglect isn't a form of abuse.

if you are &/or support any of the following queerphobic beliefs:

* radfem, terf, swerf. transmed, truscum. against neopronouns, against xenogenders. against lesbians who use pronouns outside of she/her, and gays who use pronouns outside of he/him.

* fetishize mlm, fetishize wlw. think mlm are inherently 'less oppressed' by society, oppression olympics in general.

* believe aroace people aren't inherently lgbtq. mistreat transhets due to them being het. think polyamory is inherently sexual, think you can't cheat on your partners in polyam relationships.

* think bisexuality is the 'default' to being mspec, think pansexuality is biphobic, think trans people aren't included in bisexuality. treat pan/omni/ply/etc. as micro-labels under bisexuality.

if you are &/or support any of the following radinclus beliefs:

* pro-ship, anti-anti, pro-fic. think fiction has no effect on reality. pro-para (pedophilia, zoophilia, necrophilia, etc.).*

* mspec 'lesbians', mspec 'gays', and mspec 'straights'. lesboys, turigirls, 'male lesbians', 'gay women'.

* transabled*; endogenic, xeno-origin, any non-traumagenic 'systems' are included. 'systems' caused by disorders outside of DID or OSDD-1, like 'bpd systems', you get the gist; think you can have any trauma disorder without the trauma.

* this doesn't mean the support for the people with disorders that cause these thoughts and feelings. this means the anti-recovery sentiment of identifying as 'pro-paraphilia' & transabled- whether or not you have said disorders- and the worsening of symptoms.

if you are &/or support any of the following ableist beliefs:

*accuse people of faking their disability, also known as fakeclaiming. exclude the experiences of physically disabled people when talking about ableism. dismiss the experiences of chronically ill people due to the fluctuation of severity in symptoms.

* think allistics can say the r slur, think the infinity symbol is for all neurodivergent people rather than just autistics. against informed self diagnosis.

* think people with cluster b personality disorders are inherently abusive, or that people with DID, schizophrenia, psychosis, ASPD, etc. are dangerous or violent. 'narcissistic abuse' truther.

* misuse mental health terms, like naricissistic, psycho[path], psychotic, delusional, schizo, etc., especially in a derogatory fashion.

If you are any of those, I can't help you! Srry, not srry..

There we are, I just changed your computers oil out!....

Your computer doesn't take oil? Oopsies..

Wellll while you're contacting tech support, let's talk about a few of the things I like!

Interests: Monster high (Mh), My little pony (mlp), Invader zim (Iv), Ruby gloom (Rb), Waffles (no really, I love them), Tone tags, Swag new friends, Slushies (SO YUMMY!!)

My favorite characters: Derpy (mlp), Gir (Iv), Discord (mlp) Draculara (Mh), Ruby Gloom (Rb), Skelita (Mh), Sarah Scare (Mh), Clawdeen (Mh), Lagoona (Mh), Bender (Futurama), Ghoulia (Mh), and a few OthErz

Other: My dms are open but I don't respond often, my notifications are off.

I luv 2015

I REALLLY like neon (Mainly Green & Pink)

I watch REPOSTED Shane Dawson vidz, Markiplier, and Brandon Ferris!!!

LVL 14

You managed to get on the tech support line but you're on hold? Hm.... let's play my favorite song!!

You finally got ahold of them? SWAG! Well I've gotta go, byeeee

[aronarchy]

So far there have not been any criticisms of furiousgoldfish’s posts themselves apart from the ableism. General consensus seems to be along the lines of “her advice is (very) good, she would be a net positive if she weren’t ableist and transphobic.” A few more dedicated and detailed users might examine her other harmful radical feminist beliefs (i.e. her being extremely anti-kink), but of course no one would ever go so far as criticizing her casual stigmatization of that other group we don’t talk about which she also constantly scapegoats as inherently abusive because of course no one cares about us we’re an acceptable scapegoat (yes I am extremely salty, no that’s (hopefully) not what this post of mine is primarily about, sorry for getting off track).

One person attempted to criticize Fish’s advice as harmful because it “convinces children they’re being abused when they’re not actually being abused,” among other things. I had that individual blocked, and I won’t name them because I don’t want to get them attacked and their posts were extremely triggering, but hopefully we can all agree that they’re wrong and that’s shit reasoning.

I would, however, like to try my hand at a criticism of my own.

Of course, we know that Fish’s anti-abuse advocacy fails when considering intersectionality: what about trans/cluster B/kinky/para youth and abuse survivors, how are we to be treated? Ostracized and called monsters and sterilized, or coddled as poor helpless victims? To people like her, there are no nuances, no gray areas, no in-betweens; people are classified into either monstrous sub/inhuman perpetrators undeserving of any rights, or poor uwu little victims who could never be abusive or have traits she deems abusive themselves. When encountering someone who does not fit neatly into either category, they attempt to rewrite our narratives for us to maintain their cognitive dissonance.

But there are also some more areas in which Fish’s bigotry limits her anti-abuse advocacy. Mainly: that radical feminism and other bigoted reactionary ideologies mentioned above have a not-particularly-progressive view of civil rights; they call out problems only when they are present in individual cases without examining why they were able to happen in the first place. They assume problems with systems are mistakes, accidents, rather than signs that systems are flawed by design.

Her solution to rampant parental abuse is, simply, “get rid of all the bad parents” (whom she can magically identify by specific neurological traits). With someone like her in power, the nuclear family stays, adultist hierarchies stay--only a few demographics which are mostly victims and not abusers, and who make up a tiny percentage of real abusers, are forced to go.

There is very little examination on her end of the systemic structures which teach abusers they should abuse and allow abuse to run rampant unchecked. Like all other carceral feminists, she believes the system can be reformed and hierarchies can remain as long as the people holding the authority will Use It For Good and not abuse it, and she knows they won’t because they are an Inherently Good Person and don’t have a specific biological difference.

It’s not a coincidence that radical youthlibs tend to overlap with the pro cluster B, pro para etc communities and vice versa. Those of us who are severely hated and marginalized by all of society, including the ostensibly “progressive” groups, are far more likely to have been abused as youth and far more likely to be skeptical of liberal “reform > abolition” moderates because we have been through it all, we have tried it all and we know by now that it doesn’t. fucking. work.

Radical feminist, ableist etc beliefs rarely stand on their own. They bleed over into the “anti-abuse” advocacy you do. And until you deconstruct that you are no ally of mine and your solutions will not work and you’re just enabling more abuse. There is no true child abuse prevention without complete youth liberation and abolition of ageist hierarchies.

[the-mechanisms-system]

Pinned post revamp!

We're the Mechanisms System! We're a traumagenic monoconscious system. We suspect OSDD-1b

We're explicitly endo-safe, so please DNI if you support fakeclaiming, harassing, or mocking endogenic systems.

We have NPD w/ ASPD traits. If you support "narc abuse" terminology fuck off. Or any cluster B abuse for that matter

Pro informed self dx, pro psych + prison abolition, anarchist, anti fascist, etc

Headmate intros under the cut, as well as terms and pronouns we use both collectively and individually!

Collective pronouns: it/he/they

Intros!

Terms we're comfortable with: system (and all variations such as collective, group, etc), headmate, systemmate/member, alter, plural, multiple

Terms we don't use: facets, parts

Elliott- he/fae || no known role || fae || transmasc, gnc, cottagecore art boy. absolute ray of sunshine.

Elrían/Trace- they/it || host || elf || the "default setting" (affectionate). Vin's partner. (NOT TRANS RACE. TRACE IS STRAIGHT UP JUST MY NAME.)

Corvid- he/xe || protector || human || punk, anarchist, one of the two NPD symptom holders, often angry. favorite color is purple

Gavin- he/him || caretaker || introject/fictive, demon || Elrían's bf. rarely fronts, if ever. deals more with things on the inside.

Cr- he/they/xe || none(?) || human || pirate. mischievous and adventurous, a bit of a troublemaker

Glitch- it/its || none || robot/android || calm, analytical, curious. rarely fronts.

Riley/Riles- they/them || syskid/little || human || rarely fronts, easily overwhelmed. they wont be interacting here.

Dormant but we don't wanna delete their intros

Sarin- they/them(?) || who knows || human(?) || the other NPD symptom holder, arrogant af

[aronarchy]

a bit less common of a problem, but also psychiatric abolition, particularly psychotic or cluster B rights

most leftist/anarchist spaces I’ve been in still treat us like trash & spout fascist myths/rhetoric/proposed solutions for the problem of our existence

their first & last Acceptable Prison

Youth rights and para rights are the best lithmus tests for how much fascism leftists still have to unlearn, especially if you dare to present both concepts at once.