#i can barely validate my own plurality to myself most days; i've got my own shit to worry about

[demi--human]

So, we've been thinking about this a lot, and debating whether or not to post about it, but fuck it, we're gonna say it.

If someone tells us they experience something, we're going to believe them. Who the fuck are we to tell them what they do or don't, can or can't experience. We're not them, we don't know their mind, their feelings, their personal experiences.

[This is primarily about syscourse, in case that wasn't obvious, but applies to a shite load of other things that are commonly targets of discourse.]

If someone tells us, "I am a system, my system formed without/ unrelated to trauma," or "My orientation is complex, these labels may contradict each-other, but they best describe my experience," or "There's a disconnect between what I am according to my brain and what I am according to society / 'real life,'" or-- Alright pal, thanks for sharing, we believe you.

Obviously, there's certain things that we have problems with, there's some whacky-ass shit that people will claim that we just can't get behind. However, we can disagree with how they label it, how they go about presenting it to the world, without claiming that they couldn't possibly ever experience that thing, because how the fuck do we know what's going on with them? We don't.

Existence is fucking weird, brains and minds are fucking weird, so obviously there's going to be people who are just fucking weird - hey, we're definitely pretty fucking weird. So when others tell us about their fucking weirdness, we're gonna believe them. Simple as that.

[For the love of puppies, please don't go in the comments/reblogs going "what about XYZ," or stir shit. This is just our personal opinion, so take that with a grain of salt and leave us alone, yeah?]