mental illness hasn’t been destigmatised but commercialised

Sooo true.

You can’t have serious conversations about your mental illness and you can’t even mention having one of the more stigmatized mental illnesses.

But you can endure a long line of ads recommending medications, self-care products, gym memberships, self-help books, online seminars, crystals, plants, sunlight lamps and other overpriced shit that’s supposed to be good for your mental health but is mainly just there to take advantage of people who are at a vulnerable place in life. Disgusting.

Marta Russel called this “handicapitlaism” and identified it as one of the traps of bourgeoisie/free market disability rights activism 

Fred Hampton Jr visiting his father on Father’s Day…his grave is annually shot by local police

.Some context for this:

-Fred Hampton was a black activist from Chicago – an extraordinary speaker, youth organizer for the NAACP. 

-He joined the Black Panthers and shone so brightly that he was made chair of the Chicago chapter when he was only 20.

-He founded the Rainbow Coalition, which brought together Black and Latino activists and radical anti-poverty Catholics.  He forged an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them make peace and work for social change.

-In 1967, when he was just 19, Hampton was identified by the FBI as a “radical threat.” The FBI tried to subvert his activities in Chicago, sowing disinformation to get the groups he’d drawn together to distrust each other, and getting an FBI plant next to him as a bodyguard.  

-(This is part of an illegal FBI program called COINTELPRO, which aimed to paint black civil rights activists (among others) as violent and threatening.  If you’ve only seen pictures of the Black Panthers as armed and dangerous revolutionaries, and never heard of their children’s breakfast program, their community health clinics, or their “copwatch” patrols, this is why.   It’s because COINTELPRO was a highly successful work of political propaganda.)  

-On December 3, 1969, Hampton taught a political education course at a local church, and then several Panthers gathered at his apartment for a late dinner.  One of them was the FBI plant bodyguard, who drugged Hampton.  

-At 4:45 AM on December 4, a squad of Chicago Police officers and FBI agents with a warrant to search for weapons stormed the apartment. Investigations later showed they fired between 90 and 99 times.  The Panther on security detail, Mark Clark, was holding a shotgun.  He was shot, and the gun went off into the ceiling.  This was the only shot fired by the Panthers. 

-Fred Hampton, in another room, didn’t awaken.  He was shot in his bed.  Twice, in the head, at point-blank range.  He was 21.  

-Four weeks after witnessing Hampton’s death, his finance Deborah Johnson gave birth to their son, Fred Hampton Jr.  That’s him in the photograph, visiting the grave of a father who died before he was born.  A resting place riddled with bullets.  

It took a little bit of digging through legal documents but I’ve compiled a list of the defendants from a 1970 case (Hampton v Hanrahan) in which Fred Hampton’s family and other survivors or the police raid sued various responsible parties in the local, state, and federal government. The case was settled in order to avoid the city of Chicago admitting guilt, but it was in and of itself a tacit admission that tried to keep the names of the guilty parties from going public. But here they are (and those listed as “raiders” are specifically the men who carried out the raid directly):

Up until I researched this, William O’Neal and Edward Hanrahan were the only responsible parties I’d ever seen named. I hope every one of these bastards, living or dead, has their legacy respected in the same way their fucking colleagues have respected Hampton’s grave

After doing some more research on those involved, I’ve found at least three who are still likely alive.

Richard Jalovec, assistant state’s attorney involved in organizing the raid is a lawyer in Oak Brook, Illinois

Sheldon Sorosky, also assistant state’s attorney involved in organizing the raid is a lawyer in Wilmette, Illinois.

Lynwood Davis, one of the cops who carried out the raid, is retired and living in Kissimmee, Florida

why the fuck was he kinda cooking with that bumpersticker

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'There's a petition to ban conversion therapy in the EU' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

If you are a citizen in the EU please sign this petition:

Since the OP made their post unrebloggable (and blocked me. Both actions they are well in with their right to do)

I'm going to make my response it's own post because I think the point is important

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As someone who is autistic and has BPD and CPTSD and loads of trauma yes you sometimes need to change how you interact with others to keep people around

When I was 13 I hit the few friends I had when I was angry

I had to change that in order to keep those friendships

When I was in my early 20s if I was losing an disagreement with my husband I would threaten to kill myself. My husband told me it hurt him and was cruel and manipulative behaviour, because it was.

So I worked hard to change that to keep my relationship

It's easy to say "I shouldn't have to change for others" and that's true to an extent. You shouldn't change your interests or passions or dim your light. And you should have space to be imperfect and flawed and not have to pretend your ugly bits aren't real. But if something you are doing it causing other people harm you kinda need to change that.

That's called "living in a society"

People adapt to each other and make space for each other in their lives. You adapt to them and they adapt to you

You start being more diligent about throwing away the empty toilet roll because it really bothers them. They start warning you before they run the blender because you hate loud noises

I stopped threatening to kill myself because I was mad I was losing an argument and my husband stopped being so vocally judgemental amount media he personally dislikes

There is a certain type of person who heard the phrase "your emotions are valid" and took that to mean "my emotional reactions and my behaviour are always objectively correct because my emotions are valid and if you have an emotional response or react to what I'm doing negatively then you are wrong and you can't be hurt because my emotions are valid"

And that's a recipe for disaster

Your emotions are valid to feel. They are how you feel and there are reasons you feel the way you do

However, your reactions and behaviour are something you can learn to control and can be irrational

We live in a society and we as people change each other as we interact and that isn't necessarily a bad thing

Monkey Magic AMV: Tribute to Monkey

In support of my hunger strike, we have managed to collectively donate €521 to help Hani’s family! But I think we can collectively go above and beyond this number.

Hani is still very far from his goal! Anyone interested in helping me match the €521 we donated?

To help me in matching this donation, donate any amount to Hani’s campaign and reblog with your receipt. Let’s start a donation chain! I’ll update when we match our first donation (and possibly go beyond it!)

I’ve donated €25 to get us started! €496 to go. Every single donation, no matter how small, will make a difference!

Matched! Receipt under the cut. Keep it going :) <3

who wants to match me?

Keep it going! ❤️❤️

wish $20 was $20 again.... it's literally $5. if ur fucking lucky

Yo I just saw the tag #didresolution and I really like it and I think that might be one of the best tags to use with that said, I think we really should coordinate a bit and create a new space for specifically discussion on DID in later stages of recovery, full integration, and what not. So..

DID / OSDD blogs share for larger reach ^^

I agree we need a general tag for late stage DID recovery, though resolution specifically I believe is moreso for functional multiplicity - see the ISSTD DID treatment guidelines:

(Full quote below)

I think "full integration" is nice, "late stage DID recovery" is a bit too long for me as a tag. I've also heard some people refer to late stage recovery as DID in remission?

Full integration is my favorite in theory but practically speaking it gets posts from things not talking about DID that just mention integration or something similar due how tumblrs tag system works.

How about just #didrecovery? 😮

@disghostiation From what I've talked to the people wanting these sorts of spaces, I don't think there is really a cut off point or any real barrier of determination. I think to a large degree, the intent is meant to keep it relatively open ended and up to an individual's self identification - or at least I'd personally like to keep it as minimally gatekept as possible cause I think it could quickly become toxic and/or elitist if anyone really tried to instill a "threshold" or boundary

That said, typically in the groups I've been talking with regarding this, it's usually referring to topics and discussions surround the recovery and experiences of recovery leading towards some form of "late stage" recovery noted by high levels integration (not necessarily fusion) and trauma processing / recovery; so things like final fusion, functional multiplicity and the grey area leading up to it.

I also don't think the space would necessarily need to be exclusive to people who are "near or at" any of those stages, I personally think it'd just be good as a specific place and tag to talk about the complex and odd experiences of integration and connecting parts - particularly for systems that have been working and recovering for a while

Anyone else is allowed to add their opinions / answers to this question cause I'm just one of the voices putting their thoughts into the development of a community tag ^^

Actually hold on, I'mma just outright tag some people cause I'd like their input @hiiragi7 @reimeichan @smokee78 @subsystems @kelpie-mare @theorionissystem @volant-endeavor @mikanis

Feel free to ignore this and/or not reply, I just wanna involve yall in this if you want to ^^

I've been reading a lot of the discussion on this and personally I feel like more folks on the functionally multiple side of the community should be asked with regards to using didresolution just to be sure it would vibe well - perhaps a poll for them specifically to answer? I personally think @subsystems suggestion #didrecovery is my favorite as a general DID recovery tag, but not for late stage specifically per se. I think didresolution can be a good tag for that.

Re: DID or CDD tag, I think making it a DID tag is fine.

Advice I gave someone today was: 'do it stupid.'

She wants to learn photography. Do it stupid. Take a million photos. Don't think about why they're not good. Enjoy the process of taking photos.

Pick out tge ones you like the most and figure out why you like them. Is it because the subject is centered? Is it because you caught them doing something cool? Is it because the light made cool shadows?

Do it stupid. If you try to do it smart, youll get stuck. If you think too much you'll never get to doing. Do it stupid.

“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”

a hero emerges 

And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.

And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.  

Teenage girls are amazing.

Sometimes they’re not even teenagers

Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored

Who they are:

Emma Gonzalez

Malala Yousafzai

Ruby Bridges

Greta Thunberg

Mari Copeny

Autumn Peltier

Afreen Khan

Sophie Cruz

Charlottesville Black Students Union

Naomi Wadler

DAPL protestors (names not found)

Ahed Tamimi

This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.

Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.

Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.

7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.

Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital. 

Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, it’s true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether they’re credited or not.

We were raised on these stories of fighting back against oppression, but then the people who wrote them or read them to us act shocked we turned out ready to fight facism even while being anti-social.

I feel like some people within the aspec community need to check themselves for aphobia like it's seriously concerning. I'm not just talking about internalized aphobia btw, I'm also talking about straight up aphobia against other members of the community.

If you're ace, that does not mean you are immune to being arophobic. Same goes if you're aro, you are not immune to being acephobic.

If you're aroace, you could also be aphobic without it necessarily being what could be considered as "internalized" (e.g. being aphobic to a favorable aroace when you're repulsed, being aphobic to aroaces who are non-partnering when you're partnering, being aphobic to loveless aros when you aren't loveless or lovequeer aros when you aren't lovequeer, etc. etc.).

That's not even talking about the amatonormativity in the community either.

i don't get passenger princesses i get passenger psychologists. picked someone up today and ten minutes into our journey they asked me do you get angry when you're scared and i was like uh i guess yeah why and they were like because you're driving this car like you wish it could feel pain.

you were not a monster, you were a child.

you were not a monster. you were a child.

you are not a monster. you were a child.

no nuance pick one. you can elaborate in the tags.

okay. 6 types of people on this post:

Homeless LGBT Couple in need of support!!!

Hello everyone!

We are still homeless and struggling to survive lately, especially since we lost our source of income. My pneumonia and stomach issues have been a problem and I cannot be without shelter and access to a restroom because of it. It is getting harder to afford food and we just received notice that our car registration renewal is due very soon. We cannot lose access to our car as it would greatly limit our ability to reach our doctor, job interviews, and other crucial resources.

Right now, we need help covering a motel room while I recover from being sick. We also need help affording food, medicine, important bills, and toiletries. Any help getting our needs met is greatly appreciated, as is getting attention to this post.

Venmo: @garbageconnoisseur

CashApp: $garbageconnoisseur

PayPal: @garbageconnoisseur

(Please no hate and no unsolicited advice. I can't deal with it right now and you will be blocked.)

We could really use some help covering food/groceries. We've been struggling.

What I love about this, though, is that the little nails will become an outline of where the water was. It will trace the shape, show someone later what was there once upon a time. It will be a testament to how much this guy wanted to capture the amazing things he saw and experienced, and though it will never truly keep it, it will hold a memory, something that in itself is beautiful and worthy of experience. We cannot describe the indescribable, but we can trace its outline, give some idea of what we experienced.

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