Roman/Romy or Laila. 21. He/him/his. TransAy'lonit, aro, bi, queer. Jewish. Autistic/ADHD/OCD and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis. I tag triggers and try to make things accessible as possible.
yall im fucking crying i had a dream last night that aliens came to earth and they were kinda real serious like vulcans and so obviously we were all serious too trying to impress them and it was all very civil and then they saluted their leader but their salute was a fucking dab and we all lost it and nearly started a fucking war
We give Japanese cartoons a hard time for recycling the same episode premises in every show, but if you think about it, not only do North American cartoons do the same thing, our stock episode premises are weird as hell.
Like:
Japanese cartoons have beach episodes.
American cartoons have that episode where the protagonist accidentally creates a whole bunch of duplicates of himself, all of whom later die horribly, with the last one standing giving the protagonist some valuable bit of life advice just before expiring.
Japanese cartoons have tournament episodes.
American cartoons have that episode where the focus character misuses time travel and accidentally erases herself, then goes on a tour of a world where she never existed and discovers that everything is terrible, because apparently her presence was literally the only thing holding back the Apocalypse.
Some Japanese cartoons have that episode where they parody Alice in Wonderland
American cartoons have that incredibly weird trope where something inside of them that shouldn’t be there, so their friends shrink down and go into their body to get it out and inevitably get attacked by the immune system
i swear it would be easier to explain if someone looked over my shoulder and saw me watching porn than to explain some of the posts on my damn dashboard…this being one of them
A personal care worker at a city-run long-term care home delivered 11 punches to the face of an elderly, immobile and largely non-verbal dementia patient, a video obtained by the Citizen reveals.
The high-definition video camera that recorded the attack was installed by the patient’s family and wasn’t even a secret to staff at the Garry J. Armstrong long-term care home on Island Lodge Road where the assault occurred.
Workers were made aware that the video system was being installed in the room of 89-year-old Georges Karam after the family grew increasingly concerned about the number of unexplained injuries he had suffered since moving into the residence two years ago.
Habitat preference: Found mostly in rain forest. Said to prefer relatively low and thick, flowering bushes.
Venom: Bites from this particular species have resulted in at least one report of severe hematological complications as well as two deaths.
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This snake is one of my favorite counterpoints to the argument that fantasy species should only have a few colors in their gene pool, though on the same note they still shouldn’t be LITERALLY ANY COLOR EVER.
However I’m pretty sure the rainbow one (the second to last) is photoshopped. The rest are real though and show how much color diversity a single species can have.
I was sitting in the group room at my intensive outpatient program. I had just finished recounting an incident where I believed a security officer had been following me, but the person with me at the time had disagreed and said we weren’t being followed.
The head psychologist said “Your goal this week should be letting in alternative theories to your paranoia. It isn’t likely anyone is following you.” I said “What do you mean? How can I trust someone else’s perspective over my own, especially when that someone is white?” Another person spoke up, suggested increasing my anti-psychotics.
I looked around the room at the other patients and the professionals in group with me. I was the only Black person there.
I’m mentally ill, and sometimes I’m paranoid, and sometimes I’m delusional.
I’m Black, and I’m more likely to be followed around by security, or have negative interactions with the police. The racism in this world is real, and it can affect me.
I’m mentally ill, and sometimes I have persecutory delusions, and there wasn’t any drugs in my orange juice or bugs living in my arms even though I was convinced there were.
I’m Black, and I’m mentally ill. And that intersection has never been acknowledged online or in therapy. That intersection makes us more vulnerable to abuse, domestic violence, and police brutality.
Black schizo-spec people face challenges that others don’t. We are more likely to be be labeled as dangerous and violent and be disbelieved when we share about how racism has impacted our lives, among many other things. That makes it harder for me to trust others- not to mention that difficulty trusting others is a symptom.
Was I being followed that day? I wish I had an answer, but I don’t know. Maybe I was, maybe I wasn’t. But that isn’t the point.
A simple search will tell you that schizophrenia is more readily diagnosed in Black patients than in white (source), and some say it is overdiagnosed.
But where are the positivity posts for Black people with stigmatizing disorders?
Where is the positivity for the Black schizo-spec people trying to figure out what level of fear and suspicion towards the police is reasonable and what is a symptom? Where is the positivity for Black schizo-spec people who have everything blamed on their diagnosis while their other mental health problems get ignored? Where’s the positivity for Black schizo-spec people who distrust the medical professionals they deal with, who have ugly symptoms, who are pigeonholed as dangerous?
We have died because we are Black and schizo-spec. Remember those of us who have been murdered.
A sequel to her “Everybody loves Amethyst” zine from last year, “Amethyst loves everybody” (Availabe at Connecticon and SDCC) ! Nefeli, look at those Famethysts, I wann cry! (also at Smoky… and then Jasper…) Okay, I wanna cry a lot χαχα…χα…