#cognitive autonomy

[lesboylycan]

"i only support pwASPD/NPD if they choose to recover" lol good to know that you're not worth thinking about. we've done everything we need to do to be at least somewhat happy with ourselves. we're going to actively choose not to try and "improve" anything else if it isn't killing us, and you're a big part of the reason why 👍

telling us you only care about us if we choose to "recover" only makes us not want to recover. especially since we know the only recovery that matters to you is the recovery that makes us look like a persotypical. you don't care about pwASPD/NPD, you only care about fixing us. kiss my ass.

[starfall-isle]

I’m just a ten cent copy

Of people far more advanced than me

[destroyingangelneveragod]

Hold on I just had a thought about mad liberation and how specifically the imperial core carcelizes madness. This is highly shaped by specifically the work of Walela Nehanda, Riot Diaz, readings of "Sick of It" a disability justice and prison abolition zine, Lacey Weekes, along with learning I've done from my friend who I will name M until I get his permission to post his name.

I think western medicine as a societietal institution tries to medicalize, stigmatize, and remove divergence in cognitive function and unreality and erase the autonomy and realities of those of us who just happen to experience this. It's also a core example of why a narrow worldview of acceptable mind types limits human greatness, variance, and collective strength. It is a threat to have people look at anything in any way outside a very specific norm because if we look hard enough we can see society and it's pieces of acceptability, adherence to the norm, and complacency as they truly are. A prison of individualist making.

[sonic-adventure-3]

a one-sided familial relationship is funny as fuck that’s what i want for sage. i just really don’t think eggman would ever think of himself as a father, rather than an inventor, a genius, a dictator. and i don’t think eggman would ever view his creations as people or as capable/deserving of autonomy. any affection eggman has for his robots is derived of their usefulness as extensions of his will and intelligence, ultimately. he is arrogant and self-obsessed. i think he occupies a role that is not dissimilar to a father to some of his robots (namely metal sonic and sage, mayyyyyybe omega in a rebellious teen way that i dont think either would ever think of as such), i think it’s absolutely subtext, but the acknowledgement of it runs contrary to every action eggman has ever taken. it’s too much of a change in self-perception for me to believe in, i think is my main thought on it

[hyperlexichypatia]

Do you really support freedom of choice, or do you just see one choice as the "obvious" one that "anyone" would make, and are therefore oblivious to how people are coerced into it?

[david-watts]

gonna have to be honest here this site has been a little bit of a landmine recently for me because there are just. so many jokes that either are directly making fun of biden's stutter or have roots in making fun of his stutter. I don't think I ought to have to play a game of 'is this user going to mock me for having a stutter or is that just reserved for the evil old white bloke' as often as I have lately. get better material

[canichangemyblogname]

“You believe that a movement can simultaneously have deep Zionist roots while relying on antisemitic conspiracies to spread their ideas?”

Absolutely. And I’m tired of y’all pretending that Zionist is synonymous with Jewish or being an ally to Jews.

The RadFem/DivineFem movement is one such example of an antisemitic movement that believes whole heartedly in the Zionist cause. Many of its followers believe “Jewish doctors and billionaires” are “transing” and “gaying” children by funding, supporting, campaigning for, and performing sex changes on children, which they call “synthetic sex.” No such thing is happening. JB Pritzker and George Soros are not performing or funding sex changes for children. The doctors at your local Planned Parenthood or gender-affirming clinic are, by and large, not Jewish AND not operating on children.

The Trans Exclusionary Fem’s rhetoric mirrors the rhetoric the Nazi regime used against Jewish scholars, doctors, and researchers who studied queerness in Germany prior to being shut down and burned to the ground. Right down to the calls for these doctors and successful Jewish business men to be “hunted down” or “prosecuted” for the way they are destroying the “naturally given” (god-given) bodies of (white, Anglo) children.

At the same time that the TER movement frequently traffics in antisemitism, the movement also has deep Zionist sympathies. They believe in the righteousness of the “West’s” military force as a means for furthering human rights. They support Israel despite its Jewish citizens, not because of them, because they believe that the Zionist project more closely aligns to US and UK “western” values in regards to women, and thus will be a “civilizing” force upon the local Arab population, who they see as being a “backwards lot” that cannot respect women. No consideration, of course, for the West’s colonial history of raping and murdering Arab women and imposing upon them the conditions of life designed to bring about destruction. A marginalized group’s material conditions get worse under imperialism, but the TER cares only for the way that Zionism mirrors Manifest Destiny and British “Trade” Expansionism.

This is why when queer people and women in the “West�� express concern for the treatment of women and queer people under Imperial invasion, the TER’s usual response is to tell the stupid faggots and cunts that SWANA citizens would rape us and throw us off roofs. They point and laugh, “Look at how these dumb trannies show humanity toward people who don’t respect their human rights,” as they campaign to strip us of our bodily autonomy and access to any public accommodations. “They’ll throw you off roofs,” says the man who posts about wanting to beat queers to death in bathrooms for the protection of “real women.” The “Western State” is somehow our saving grace; the best place for our human rights, but really the only threat to them.

While they feign to care about the treatment of women and queers in SWANA nations, the TER ignores the fact that our brutalization occurs in our own— supposedly “civilized”— countries at the hands of their policies and state actors who support their cause. I truly find it hard to believe that the TER cares about whether I’m thrown off a roof given how they discuss my lack of humanity. They will only ever bring forward the brutalization of people in the “West” when it serves their narrative, like when they want to justify their support for the violent weaponization of the paternalistic carceral state for the supposed protection of women (see: slogans that say “The only good criminal is a dead criminal”). Which women? Certainly not Black women. Not Indigenous women. Not immigrant women. Not queer women. Middle and upper class WASPy ladies.

[citriosis]

praying i can still get a ticket when i get paid. i am determined to go to this and have fun. i want to be able to have fun despite everything. i don't want to push too hard but i want to live my life. i want my autonomy. my body can attack itself all it wants. i'm going to have fun. i'm going to have fun. i deserve to have fun.

[mythicalcoolkid]

If I had a nickel for every time I had to watch "I can't believe they're doing this!! This is heinous, who could have seen this coming?! <thing a minority group repeatedly and explicitly said would happen if x other thing went unchallenged>" I could afford to live somewhere with fewer human rights violations

[bun-latte]

Sometimes i really wish there were more agere posts about littles who are like, 9-15 years old. :(

it only ever seems to all be things 0-6 years old, mostly focused on pre-school to MAYBE first grade age.

I think itd be nice to have more posts that focus on later school years, and about social/cognitive norms for those ages too.

[ernestbruce]

Poison Critical podcast

[hyperlexichypatia]

I continue to be really, really worried about the decline I see in acknowledgment of concepts like individual autonomy, freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and individual choice in popular discourse, specifically the argument that people should be free to choose “bad” things. People should be free to think, say, and do to their own bodies and lives, things that you think are “bad.” Defenses of them should not hinge upon convincing someone that actually, their choices are “good.” That is not the point. It doesn’t matter whether a medicine is “good” or “bad.” It matters that the person whose body it is has the freedom to choose whether to use it. It doesn’t matter here whether I’m talking about psych meds, sex hormones, vaccines, antibiotics, aspirin, or camel urine. It doesn’t matter whether a relationship (romantic, platonic, or otherwise) is “good” or “bad” (or “healthy” or “unhealthy”). It matters whether the people in the relationship entered it freely and voluntarily, consent to be in it, and have the freedom to exit it should they choose to. It is not necessary to expound at length about how every relationship is different and we don’t know the individuals involved. The individuals involved are irrelevant. The relevant fact is that the individuals involved deserve the right to make their own life choices without coercion. It doesn’t matter whether someone’s unusual beliefs actually secretly have some profound wisdom to them. It doesn’t matter whether someone is a misunderstood genius or a mad prophet. It matters only that individuals deserve the right to believe unusual things, no matter how nonsensical they may seem to outsiders. Liberal individualism is a core value unto itself.

[secularprolifeconspectus]

Quick Pro-Life Responses

Keep in mind: the fundamental disagreement between pro-life and pro-choice is on whether a fetus is being formed into a person, or if the fetus is already a person and is simply developing.

Confidently assert, “you say that because you think a fetus is not a person yet.”

They may concede fetuses are people in word, but still not conceptualize them as full people worthy of equal consideration.

“I have the right to bodily autonomy.”

Abortion is literally suffocation, poisoning, or dismemberment of a living human organism.

Abortion induces fetal demise by depriving a human of oxygen, blood, or vital function.

Bodily autonomy does not justify abuse of power and excessive force over a helpless person.

Abortion, a disproportionately brutal response to a passive threat, is aggressive violence.

“No one has the right to use my body.”

Correct. But, a prenatal person does not use a pregnant person’s body. They have no agency.

A pregnant person’s body takes care of the prenate. This care is ordinary and healthy.

Abortion is not like refusing care to a dying person, it is like murdering a healthy captive.

No one has the right to murder someone who they caused to be dependent on them.

“I have the right to revoke my consent.”

When you give consent, you agree to accept the foreseeable outcomes and risks of an action.

The creation of a bodily dependent is a foreseeable outcome of consensual intercourse.

You cannot revoke consent to outcomes. You can revoke consent to actions.

You may not violently sacrifice a helpless person to “mitigate” a risk of a consensual action.

“Anything dependent on my body is a parasite.”

If you make parasites, then you’re a parasite; it’s misogynist to suggest women are parasites.

The female body would not actively try to make pregnancy happen if it were parasitic.

Prenates never directly cause pregnant people harm; they are not aggressors or parasites.

Using developmental dependency to justify murder is simultaneously ageist and ableist.

“An embryo is just a clump of cells.”

Human embryos meet NASA’s criteria for the characteristics of distinct living organisms.

Human embryos are self-directed and their development follows a body plan.

Human embryos are organized and individual. They already have inherited capacities.

Tumors and gametes do not follow an organized body plan.

“Early humans have no cognitive capacities.”

By week 3, the embryo has a spine and is developing a nervous system.

By week 5, the embryo has a rudimentary brain that controls their pulse.

By week 8, the embryo has pain reflexes and can move their limbs.

It’s incredibly ableist to use the cognitive inabilities of a human being to justify their murder.

“If a fetus is a person, so is a brain-dead human.”

A brain-dead human is, obviously, dead. It’s an oxygenated corpse, the remains of a person.

Death occurs when human organisms stop resisting entropy and lose organic integration.

Preborn people actively resist entropy (decay) and have organic integration (unity).

An early human organism isn’t dependent on a mature brain to organize her vital functioning.

“Later abortions only happen for medical reasons.”

According to two studies by pro-abortion researcher at UCSF Katrina Kimport, this is untrue.

Kimport’s studies found that the reasons for later abortions are similar to early abortions.

Later abortions aren’t euthanasia; infants are stabbed with lethal injections and dismembered.

Perinatal hospice and palliative care relieve suffering. Dying babies deserve love, not murder.

“What about rape and incest?”

Abortion is not evidence-based treatment for sexual trauma. Abortion is traumatic as well.

A preborn child should not be condemned to the death penalty for their father’s crime.

It is safe for most menstruating children to carry pregnancies to viability with sufficient prenatal care.

Children conceived in incest are likely to have disabilities; that’s not reason to murder them.

“What about health of the mother?”

Every abortion ban in the US has exceptions for if the mother’s life or body is in grave danger.

We are not against tragic cases of triage. We are against elective induced abortion.

Some procedures coded medically as abortions aren’t legally or ethically defined as abortions.

Pro-life doctors report that the bans have not impeded their ability to treat their patients.

Your Core Arguments

There is no sound evidence or consistent logic that proves the preborn are the only class of human beings exceptional to the rule that humans are people with equal rights.

If a being is in the dynamic process of bonding with us as kin, then that being is a whole actual person by the manner of actively and inherently relating to our collective humanity.

Embryonic humans are full and equal people like us because they latently embody our same capacities and are manifesting them as we are, on account of sharing our nature.

[hellyeahscarleteen]

Sex and Disability

This Disability Pride Month, check out our series on Sex and Disability! This isn't meant to be a be-all-end-all guide to sex and disability because a) it's not, and b) there just can't ever be such a thing with any guide to sex. This series, much like your entire sexual life, is a work in progress and an endless, ongoing conversation. We hope this can be a good place for you to get started, and something that starts you on the path of good feelings about sex and your disability. Read the introduction above, or skip to one of the sections below:

Taking Your Body for a Ride: Masturbation and Disability

Disabled Sex: Sex for Two (or More)

Consent Is Sexy: Sexual Autonomy and Disability

Sex on the Brain: Sex and Autism, Mental Illness, and Other Cognitive Diversity

Your Body is Not a Sex Object: Devotees and Disability

Wheelchair, Bound? Kink and Disability

I Beg Your Pardon? Dealing with Rude Nondisableds

(Check out the rest of our disability-focused content here)

[luna-azzurra]

Writing Child or Teenage Characters:

Writing child or teenage characters requires an understanding of their unique perspectives, thoughts, and behaviors at various stages of development. Here are some tips to help you capture the essence of child or teenage characters realistically:

1. Research Developmental Stages: Familiarize yourself with the developmental stages of children and teenagers. Understand the physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes that typically occur during these periods. This knowledge will help you depict characters at appropriate stages of maturity.

2. Voice and Dialogue: Pay attention to the language and vocabulary used by child or teenage characters. Their speech patterns, sentence structure, and word choices may differ from adult characters. Reflect their age and level of education in their dialogue to make it authentic and relatable.

3. Emotional Authenticity: Children and teenagers experience a wide range of emotions, and their emotional responses can be intense and sometimes unpredictable. Show their emotions through their actions, reactions, and internal thoughts. Be mindful of age-appropriate emotional depth and understanding.

4. Observational Perspective: Child and teenage characters often notice and interpret the world differently than adults. Highlight their unique observations, curiosity, and innocence. Allow them to have a fresh perspective that can bring a sense of wonder or discovery to the story.

5. Growth and Development: Portray child or teenage characters as evolving and growing individuals. Show their learning experiences, mistakes, and the lessons they learn along the way. Capture their gradual understanding of the world and their evolving sense of identity.

6. Relationships and Peer Dynamics: Explore the dynamics of friendships, peer pressure, and social hierarchies that are prevalent during childhood and adolescence. Show the influence of friends, family, and mentors on their thoughts and behaviors. Highlight the importance of relationships in their lives.

7. Hobbies and Interests: Reflect the passions, hobbies, and interests that are common among children and teenagers. These activities can shape their identities and provide opportunities for self-expression. Incorporate their hobbies into the narrative to add depth and authenticity.

8. Growth of Independence: As children and teenagers mature, they seek more independence and autonomy. Depict their struggles with authority figures, their desire for freedom, and their exploration of boundaries. Balance their growing independence with their need for guidance and support.

9. Challenges and Coming of Age: Explore the challenges and rites of passage that child and teenage characters face. Address issues such as identity formation, peer pressure, academic stress, bullying, first love, and self-discovery. Treat these themes with sensitivity and avoid trivializing or dismissing their experiences.

10. Evolving Relationships with Adults: Capture the evolving relationships between child or teenage characters and the adults in their lives. Show the shifting dynamics, conflicts, and moments of connection. Avoid portraying adults as one-dimensional authority figures or overly understanding mentors.

[theiasthesis]

Shifting can be escapism, and that's OK.

Im going to give you a valuable lesson, so stick to the post, dont skip because every word is important. Don't let that small attention span get to you baby, remember that knowledge is power.

My name is Willow! I'm a non-dualist reality shifter, shifting coach and subliminal creator who's a freak for the multiverse and knowledge. Everything I say on here is based on my own personal experiences and research.

This post can help you with:

Escapism, guilt for shifting, realising you're worthy of shifting.

The self determination theory (SDT) is a psychological theory of motivation. It focuses on the degree to which specific human behaviour is for the self ; self motivated and self determined

Basically, what exactly is it that a human being can do, that isn't manipulated by outside influence, but rather their own human nature?

According to the theory these are 3 self motivated human behaviours:

Autonomy

Having the freedom to decide your actions without outside influence.

Example: Being able to go out with your friends, without your parents restricting you.

Competence

The ability to do something effectively and be useful.

Example: You're a very useful employee at your company, this means you are competent for your job.

Relatedness

Being connected or related to someone, or something.

Example: Having a connection with family or friends

OK, so how does any of this apply to shifting and escapism?

When you lack one of any of these 3 behaviours or feelings, this is a disruption your human nature. Naturally by birth, you are within your birth right to recieve all of this.

Each of these behaviours, have extreme importance in your cognitive behaviour

- Cognitive behaviors are thoughts, ideas, and representations of yourself to others.

If you don't have the will or ability to control your actions independently, you are most likely going to feel stuck, and like everything is out of your control. Doing things that make you happy and activities you find meaningful, will become an issue due to your lack of autonomy.

If you don't feel competent in areas of your life, or people aren't competent when it comes to you, this can create low self esteem and a bad self concept, you may think of yourself as "worthless" "useless" or "incompetent"

You may feel less motivated to taking on new challenges and activities, as you feel like you're just going to fail, and mess everything up anyways.

Connection is what makes us human, love and empathy towards overs and receiving it, is what makes human life so special. Relatedness, is what you need to experience caring relationships, to be part of a community, and overall to feel love. Humans need love, that is a fact.

When these basic needs aren't met, a human being can lack the motivation to commit to any one of these factors, which take up a huge part in life.

Lacking these can make you feel, stressed, anxious, self loath and nihilistic.

When you don't have these 3 factors, this causes a lack of motivation to commit to them, which means you don't have them.

So you turn to something else, escapism.

"Escapism is the tendency to distract oneself from real-life problems. It can also be conceived as shutting meanings out of one's mind and freeing oneself from self-awareness for a while . Escapism has been identified as one of the key drivers behind online behaviors, in both adaptive and maladaptive ways"

- PubMed Central®

Link to study

Think of escapism like touching a hot stove. Imagine you place your hand upon a stove. At first its cold, and you're fine.

Then the temperature starts to slowly rise, its currently warm, its still fine you can deal with it. Now, it's getting hotter, and hotter, and hotter...

And you remove your hand.

Not on purpose, but by instinct.

By reflex, your hand immediately moved away from the stove once it got too hot.

Your nervous system felt the pain, which sent a signal to the brain, that something with your hand is wrong.

Biology isn't my strong suit I fear.

Another example.

You're in immediate danger, there's a tsunami coming your way, it's too big for you to face, if you stay where you are, you're going to get crushed by the water, and die on impact. So what do you do?

You run.

Naturally you escape from the dangerous situation, because who in their right mind would test their luck and try to survive a tsunami?

Are you getting it?

When human beings are faced with a situation that is uncomfortable, causes mental, or physical harm, or even death, their first response is to escape.

It is human nature to run, to escape, to not face the dangerous situation. Sometimes it can be a bad move, like ditching a daye you were nervous for, other times it could be skipping school because you constantly run into a group of serious bullies.

Repeat after me.

If you are in a situation where you do not feel loved, worthy, or free, you are allowed to escape.

You are allowed to escape.

Empathise on that baby, nobody is going to tell you off for it.

However, you must be weary of using shifting as escapism.

Shifting is a wonderful phenomenon, it is not something that determines whether you live or not. It doesn't determine your worth either, nor is it something that causes you psychological stress.

If you find yourself having suicidal or self harming thoughts, with shifting as a way to mend these thoughts, I beg of you to take a step back and evaluate these thoughts of yours.

Shifting is a journey, I preach that it's something that can be done on the first go, but that isn't the case for everybody.

It can be as short or as long as you make it, failure in shifting when using it as an escape from serious issues, is a one way road to psychological distress.

With that, I ask that you first deal with your mental health, before anything else.

Find something that makes you feel good and grounded, something you enjoy.

Please remember, that not everything is something you must be good at, if it came from you it's already perfect.

Meditation, painting, dancing, listening to music, writing, exercise. Anything and everything that makes you feel good, nothing is too silly, nobody is going to think you're weird or bad at doing something you love to do.

I found that talking out loud, writing in my journal, mediation and watching anime helped me a lot when I had "life impacting plans" connected to shifting.

LESSON SUMMARY

1. It is natural for human beings to run away when they are faced in a dangerous or uncomfortable situation

2. Shifting being used to run away from a bad situation, isn't negative. It only becomes negative once you prioritise it over your own health

3. Your mental and physical health always comes first before shifting

4. You deserve to be loved, to feel worthy, to not be let down, and to be free, whether that's through shifting or not!