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I was caught by a couple of these over the years. Reblogging for us all.

you haven’t met all of you yet

posts that hit different when y. when youre a.

this is interesting content i engage with don't worry

No doctor will ever get my respect like the woman in the ER who checked me for claws and fangs because I told her I was turning into a werewolf and could feel it and let me know gently that she couldn't find any but that didnt make it feel any less real, like THATS how you do it, other doctors who just flat out told me I was wrong take notes

This is how you treat us!

Can I just add that, if you like me have delusions where everything bad that happens is your fault, the doctor shouldn't be like "Yeah, you're probably right" but try to reason with you in a respective way. OP's doctor did it right, but some of the notes make it look like people think delusions must be agreed to always, when doing so can be detrimental to the person's wellbeing

Yes!!! I have clinical lycanthropy as a subset of my schizoaffective disorder. Even now when I'm highly medicated I feel myself growing wolf ears and a tail on the full moon. It used to be severe before medicine, with hallucinations of my bones cracking and reforming and of my teeth elongating, chronic pain from where my tail would be, urges to bite people and fear of losing control entirely during episodes. I dont know how most people develop it but I developed mine due to reading extensive werewolf literature while in a psychotic, depressive episode. I'm honestly just really happy, all these notes and this is the first time anyone has recognized it as clinical lycanthropy. It's not a disorder that a lot of people know about. If you have any more questions I'd be happy to answer!

just because Twitter’s about to crack doesn’t mean we should be distracted from this site’s own problems which I’m sure staff would enjoy. We still have a problem with predators on here and people posting child exploitation material. We still have fascist communities and hate groups here. We have groups of terfs that dox trans kids. A lot of people who rely on sex work for their income had their lives upended as a result of the porn ban. We have a broken automated moderation system that will fuck you up if it thinks it saw a nipple. Staff banned a bunch of real, vocal people of color during the height of the BLM movement in 2020 under the pretense that they were somehow foreign intelligence agents. We need significant change and improvement here, and if Twitter shuts down within the next year, I’m sure that the people who run Tumblr as a business will have little motivation to do anything if their competitor is dead.

butches deserve to wear those fun harnesses gay men wear. who cares if some of us have titties. the lesbian community can have a little “butch titties framed by leather harnesses.” as a treat.

addendum to this is that we actually do do this I just wasn’t hanging out with the right dykes yet when I made this post

There is nothing I like better than posts where someone is like I wish this interesting thing happened all the time and then several months later response to themselves with guess what guys? I found my community! I genuinely feel like the internet has given us more of that in general and it genuinely warms my heart

Apparently regular carbon monoxide detectors only detect levels that are threatening to your life. Not levels that slowly mess you up over time.

At the suggestion of the firefighters I have turned off my heater and ordered a specialized low level CO detector. So we’ll see if I’m regularly swimming in low levels of poison or if tonight was just a freak incident.

Also you need to replace your CO detector every 8-10 years

So basically regular CO detectors only alarm when they detect levels over 70ppm which can get bad for you after a few hours. Above 100ppm can potentially kill you given enough time. Above 150 you need to leave your house right now immediately However, the WHO recommendation is that CO should be below 10ppm. At 11-30 you can develop chronic headaches and nausea. Possibly even problems with your respiratory or circulatory systems depending on who you are. But most CO detectors don't pick up on that. Crazy.

I wish more people got this because some ‘low-empathy’ people are the most compassionate and sympathetic in the universe, and I hate it when that’s taken to mean ‘unfeeling and probably hostile’ when nothing could be further from the truth

Sympathy: that sucks bro empathy: I feel that compassion: want me to send you some puppy and kitten pictures to make you feel better?

Posts like this make me feel so much better. It always seems like society treat responses to others pain as though empathy is the most important kind. I am around 85% compassionate and this post helped me not feel like I am a monster because of that for once.

i lowkey ship tumblr ♠ twitter now

i would rather help 100000 fakers than make life harder for a single disabled person

if making sure that disabled people don’t have to jump through one hundred million hoops in order to receive accommodations means that people start faking disabilities to get those same accommodations, then i think that’s fine. that does not hurt anyone.