the vampire variety

⌗⠀plural. autistic, dissociative, obsessive-compulsive, anxious, seasonally/episodically depressed. goth, generally speaking.

⌗⠀ze/hir or ky/kyv/kyr (it/its auxiliary)

⌗⠀dms are always open. pls don't use tone indicators with us.

⌗⠀more under the cut!

this would bother us less if we weren't epileptic. or, rather, we were as a kid (we haven't had a seizure in 10+ years, so... not anymore, i suppose. who knows). it did affect us back then, in real life. people, including our mother, tried to "protect" us from eyestrain even though it was completely harmless. i understand that an overabundance of caution is better than a total lack of caution, but it's like... c'mon. how many times do i have to tell you that my condition isn't photosensitive. our seizures were all in our sleep, and in dark rooms*. it was infantilizing and just plain annoying. it also caused us to not know what the word was for what we were experiencing (epilepsy) because we thought that word meant lights give you seizures, and we knew that wasn't right.

(*minus one that was on an airplane)

and then there's just the fact we care about wording a lot. both "photosensitive" and "epilepsy" mean different things on their own. photosensitive refers to skin that is extremely sensitive to uv (basically), epilepsy is essentially just recurring seizures without an external cause (like an infection or withdrawal).