Love not having a ”””fandom””” specific blog. Something new will just consume my mind and everyone has to accept it. My house
Reblog if you think asexuality is a legitimate sexuality.
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oh i want to be an ally to psychotic people how do i do that
easy change everything you’ve learned about psychosis. completely. everything.
okay more lengthy explanation: firstly what IS psychosis.
psychosis is a condition that impacts: your sense of reality or beliefs about reality, your ability to think and consequently speech, and sometimes your motor movements. and a bunch of other stuff (negative symptoms)
this can be short-lived, linked to other things (mania can lead to psychosis as an ex.), or more chronic. more chronic psychotic disorders, like schizophrenia, can enter remission periods, but may not always. (this is both related to treatment and individuals. some individuals will never have a remission period.)
psychotic disorders are (in accordance with the DSM-V) : delusional disorder, schizotypal personality disorder, brief psychotic disorder, schizophreniform, substance/medication-induced psychotic disorder, schizoaffective disorder, psychotic disorder otherwise nonspecified, schizophrenia and m-maybe schizoid personality disorder i don’t remember if it counts. OFFICIALLY disorder that can have psychotic features are bipolar disorder, depression disorders, and PTSD. (personal observation has lead me to note BPD and disassociative disorders also can have psychotic features but I don’t think the DSM-V mentions that.)
as a disorder, it impacts every. single. part. of your life. especially when chronic. in europe, the employment rate is 8-35% (with better chances for single-episode) for schizophrenics. and in the united states, it is about 10%. in general, psychotics have a lowered life expectancy by 10-15 years.
ok how to be ally.
change your thinking.
listen to me. seriously now. people with psychosis will think in ways that are weird, nonsensical. they’ll have weird body movements. they probably won’t respond appropriately in society. sometimes they may talk to themselves. sometimes they will refer to themselves only in third person. that’s all things ‘most people’ don’t do. you need to firstly be deeply comfortable with the weird, strange, and novel. don’t infantilise strangeness, but don’t treat it as if it doesn’t have a place in society. this also btw, applies to people you see IN real life. if you see someone walking in a weird way or talking in an incoherent way and your instant reaction is This Person Is Gross then you suck. (Not because it necessarily indicates psychosis but because motor movements are not indicative of what a person is.)
understand and drill it into your head that not every psychotic is looking for remission and that is not because they’re incapable of knowing. it’s just some of them are satisfied with the way they are. that’s fine!! some psychotics will use religion, and spirituality to make sense of it. for some of us (myself included), it makes more sense to avoid it. never assume you know more about a persons reality than they do.
You should not reality-check without permission this could be its own post. but like basically never outright say No this isn’t real. Even if it’s NOT real. If someone’s delusion is like, their bones have become small apple pies, you shouldn’t go “your bones are not apple pies.” You shouldn’t outright say “Yeah your bones ARE apple pies” either it’s more nuanced but you should ask people YOU ARE CLOSE TO how they prefer this to be done.
be patient with psychotics when you can it’s soooo hard to socialise and eat and leave bed and literally every waking second of my life i am using energy i don’t have. Just be kind with them. Come over and cook if they’re fine with that. Stay by their side. Help them clean their room every once in a while. Community support is one of the biggest things that improve the lives of psychotic people.
this is so rambly help
there should be anti-sponsorships, youtubers sometimes get money to talk shit about raid shadow legends or whatever the fuck
finding out your friend has a new name/gender is so hype. Like yess give us the patch notes
We NEED to reevaluate how we view people with "red flags" that don't actually indicate harm to anyone. Things like "doesn't like animals," "doesn't have pets," "my pets immediately distrust them, so that means they're Secretly Evil."
I have a psychotic disorder. I suffer from flat affect. I have zero control over how I am emoting, and very often my emotional readout is completely blank. A LOT of animals (dogs especially) have exhibited aggression and fear around me ever since this started. (There are only TWO dogs I've met in the last five years that didn't BITE ME.) Dogs are unsettled by me because of a symptom of my psychosis--a condition that is out of my control that IS NOT DANGEROUS and doesn't harm anyone.
I also have a severe autoimmune disease and severe allergies to basically all animals. Whenever I tell people I can't come over because they have pets, or I don't have/want pets of my own, the IMMEDIATE response I always get is "why don't you like animals?" So I'm always pretty pissed off when I have to say, "I'm severely allergic. Don't fucking assume I have an undesireable quality just because I'm not a pet owner."
Another ableist red flag we need to talk about is "has no other friends/all their friends break up with them." Hi. I'm physically disabled with a digestive disease and a degenerative disease in my spine. That means my dietary restrictions are stupid and I can't sit/stand/walk for more than 15 minutes without being in pain. Most of the friends I break up with, I do so BECAUSE THEY ARE INCREDIBLY ABLEIST TO ME with no visible potential of changing. From people relentlessly harrassing me about lifestyle changes to not accepting correction or feedback when I tell them "hey, you CAN'T do x because it triggers y condition." If they argue or blow me off, I'm not their fucking friend!
Tl;dr: Disabled, chronically ill, and people with "scary" mental illnesses are often lumped in with "bad people" for characteristics that hurt no one and aren't in their control. Stop using "my dog is uncomfortable around them" as a litmus test for everyone you hang out with.
As @staff further refine the polls while they're rolling them out (still haven't gotten mine sadly), here's a suggestion of mine: Polls with a ten year time limit.
As of right now, it's impossible for polls to turn into long-running legendary posts. You can try, sure (see the bug race), but it's a week and then it's locked, fixed, done, and all that's left is for people to reminisce about that time there was a poll.
On the other hand, if a ten year poll gets popular, it can become part of Tumblr lore while still being updated. People can write passionate appeals for their vote and fight in the notes. Others can make graphs to show how the poll's majorities shift with each different US president or Taylor Swift album. People can make memes about "remember 2025, when option 3 was in the lead? That was a crazy time".
Why ten years, though, instead of a hundred or just no time limit? Because that way, the end becomes an event. People who voted in the poll when it was just a few hours old can watch the final countdown together, and there's a new point in Tumblr history: That day when we finally all agreed on the best option, and presumably also some important political stuff happened.
Now, granted, most ten year polls would never reach this level of notoriety. But it only takes a few polls like this to be worthwhile. Maybe this shouldn't be an option for users to select, but something the Tumblr website grants/pushes on you at random?
So, yeah. Ten year polls. They should be a thing.
Can you imagine the chaos of a 10 year poll with the options
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