#yesssssss vague me more it makes my swagful aura stronger

[scaryarcade]

youre kidding yourself if you think academic support will prevent fakeclaiming, and even if it did, you'd be throwing tons of systems under the bus with this strategy. pushing for scientific validation above all else might result in some endogenic plural experiences being legitimized, but at the expense of others. so many inner experiences can't be quantified; the validity of someone's plurality should never be contingent on whether it can be observed through the lenses of psychology/neuroscience/etc. if the current view of plurality is "plurals are only valid if they fit into a medicalized box" the solution can't just be to create more medicalized boxes. this is respectability politics and another lazy attempt at dodging accountability for cultural appropriation 👎