#tw lobotomy

You are making fun of the torture of disabled people. People with intellectual disability and severe mental illness brutally had parts of their brain severed or killed. Many people died from this. We can never know the true impact because the people who endured this were not the same after.

Holy shit fuck this.

I get the point that they’re trying to make. I really do.

But please. Please stop.

Please stop pretending that men don’t experience psychiatric abuse. Please stop pretending that men don’t and have never experienced MSA/medical sexual abuse. Please stop. Fucking stop.

Especially since, yeah, some of the people complaining about being lonely as men are incels who use “I’m lonely” to mean “the women around me have standards and won’t tolerate my open misogyny”. But some are ND and experience compounding social isolation from that and expectations from men. You know, the primary targets of psychiatric abuse. The neurodivergent and Mad. I sent an anon about this once, but some level of psychiatric abuse being driven by misogyny doesn’t mean it affects NT women more than visibly ND/Mad men. That’s who you hurt when you openly mock the idea of a man being subjected to this because of “loneliness”. The incels don’t care.

I shouldn’t be sending asks when I’m nauseous from flashbacks earlier today. But that’s why I am. You don’t get to say this shit. Even if you’re trying to make a point about misogyny and misogyny in the medical/psychiatric field towards women experiencing loneliness. There are ways to do it without attacking people’s trauma.

This is androsaneism.

But you weren't sleeping yet. Lethargic, yes. Calm, absolutely. But don't these surgeries usually put you to sleep...?

You tried to voice your thoughts as the surgeon shaved your head. For a frustrating minute, you feared you might not manage it at all, but eventually — thankfully — the surgeon came round with a knowing look.

"You'll be awake for the whole procedure, sweetheart. This isn't your grandmother's lobotomy," he said with a reassuring smile. "We take great care to only remove what needs removing, and that requires us to monitor your brain activity. Don't worry. You won't feel a thing."