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Everyone's gonna jump on me for this one but the RAMCOA community loves to repurpose cult tactics

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Inclusive syscourse sometimes feels like "I totally get what its like being adrift at sea on a rickety raft for your whole life too! I've been on a cruise ship once and it's basically the same thing"

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It truly is insidious that the community hoisted up for survivors of traumas such as being in a cult can at times be found repackaging full blown cult tactics like this. To a sadly ironic point, its almost a wonder there aren't more cult survivors seeing it for what it is and calling it out

My favorite instagram conspiracy was actually the one that said if anyone denies the existence of RAMCOA or says it's not real then they're part of some cult and want to hurt you or something like that and its this mass conspiracy to convince people you're actually crazy and your trauma is fake.

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friendly reminder that butch and femme identities don’t sit at opposite ends of a spectrum that every lesbian must squeeze themselves into.

friendly reminder that it’s perfectly okay to fall outside any femme/butch categorization.

friendly reminder that you can still respect butch/femme culture and history even without identifying as a femme or a butch.

friendly reminder that you don’t need to write ugly thinkpieces about the limitations of butch/femme culture just because you can’t relate to either identity or don’t understand why so many people believe those labels are still important

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luigi mangione, the SUSPECTED (innocent until proven guilty) united healthcare shooter, has been charged with terrorism. that’s right. a man who supposedly shot ONE SINGLE PERSON is being charged with terrorism. because in america, billionaires lives matter enough that a SINGLE rich man’s death is considered a terrorist act against this country. think about that.

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Posting faggot and queer like 2am gunshots to keep property values on my blog low and scare away assimilationist LGBTs who want to replace my empty lot full of native wildflowers with a 5-over-1 because they're too traumatized by their upbringing to accept the reality of our diverse marginalized community

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Block button is my best friend now. I love you block button

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Tumblr user is insufferable and refuses to learn how to use the block button, more at 8

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Somehow, pro endos when my posts talk about DID specifically and not general "plurality":

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Gentle reminder that the only reason you should ever "self diagnose" is when you have done thorough research about the diagnostic criteria, you are facing uncontrollable/long term limitations to accessing proper healthcare, AND are only using that to try to better understand your health or be better understood by people in your personal life.

Self diagnosis in many cases will be incorrect due to your own personal biases and interpretations of the medical text. It should not be a means of inserting yourself into online spaces as "one of them", it should not be a replacement for medical care, it is not an excuse to ignore or avoid available resources, it does not validate spreading anti-recovery rhetoric that pushes disordered individuals away from seeking the help they need, and it should never be a technique to bypass putting in the time, energy and work to find a proper yet affordable doctor.

Diagnosis-- let alone accurate diagnosis-- takes time, getting a care team that listens takes self advocacy, and you will inevitably meet at least one doctor during your journey who is dismissive or even bigoted. That's the unfortunate nature of living in a society that does not properly accommodate the people within it. But that doesn't mean that every good and reasonable doctor is locked behind a classist/ableist paywall, it just means you need to be patient with yourself, take slow steps forward and work on what you can do to get to one in the meantime.

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I am a simple man. I see "tulpa" mentioned on a blog, i block indiscriminately.

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I’ve got my tumblr inbox turned off so I really have to commend the person who actually emailed me to let me know they don’t like the things I’ve posted about the UnitedHealth CEO being murdered on their commitment to their beliefs.

But seen as how you emailed me from a dud email that appears to be bouncing back replies and I really wanted to address something you said to me about violence begetting violence:

My migraine medication, the medication I was given for my debilitating neurological disease that has gotten so bad I spent most of this year actively suicidal, costs $1300 a month.

My insurance covered it. But only because my doctors office went to fucking war for me because I’m a high anaphylaxis risk for the drugs the insurance wanted me to try.

Because that’s the thing.

My doctors knew, based on my documented medical history, I likely wouldn’t be a good fit for the “first line” of preventative migraine drugs, but because of insurance, I had to be given drugs that were contradictory to my other life threatening conditions, because otherwise insurance wouldn’t cover anything else.

I failed them. Spectacularly and with an anaphylactic reaction to one of them. And I was still warned insurance would fight me because I hadn’t tried the remaining drug they wanted me to try.

A drug which I would have to take in an ER waiting room because my mast cell disease is unpredictable but insurance wouldn’t cover in-patient treatment to let me try it safely under medical supervision.

Is that not violence?

Were all the times I was denied coverage for vital and necessary procedures that could have prevented my disabilities from worsening not violence?

Maybe not in the sense you mean. But I assure you it felt very much like violence to me.

Do I condone murder? No, obviously. But I’m also sick and tired of people pretending that what is happening to the American people every day isn’t eugenics through class warfare.

Violence begets violence.

It sure fucking does.

Maybe these insurance companies should have thought of that first.

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Friendly reminder that DID is a diagnosis, not a "label"

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a theory of mine as to why the children in the did community gravitate so hard towards making pk tmeplates, alter packs and etc is they want to feel useful, want praise and appreciation from people online that they lack in real life, without having to acknowledge their disorder as something negative.

Writing about symptom management or help requires acknowledgement that having alters is a symptom, that you can't just let your system "run wild" and that new alters are often not a good sign, while a lot of younger systems like to obsess over their alters, either to cope with the rest of the disorders being horrible by focusing on the thing they see as "positive", or simply because they're faking and having alters is the one overly glorified part of did. just my thoughts though

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Not every space for CDDs should have to be open to all trauma survivors in general, actually.

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yall are willing to respect religious abuse survivors not wanting to hear about christianity but can't fathom the idea that delusion prone pwCDDs don't wanna hear about your spiritual beliefs around plurality and it irks me more than i have words for