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white people consistently gravitating towards another white person telling the story of a brown person and giving themselves a pat on the back for basically telling their white experience through a brown mouth. white people, please understand yall are part of the problem and you need to be conscious of the work you’re consuming and making.

then there’s poc content creators giving accurate deep portrayals of their experience who get little to no exposure and who’s legitimate stories get swept under the rug.

this is about latinx, indigenous, black, mixed, asian, and other racial/ethnic minorities (espeically those who are disabled and/or lgbtq+)

-are allowed on airplanes.

-are allowed in housing where a homeowner/association doesnt normally allow animals.

-there is NO certification and websites advertising these are fake. You need a note from your doctor for housing and transportation.

-there is NO vest or outfit and creating one in an attempt to seem official is illegal.

-there is NO reason for this animal to be out and about in public (besides dogs at parks etc taking a walk).

Service Animal:

-are legally trained to perform a specific task in assistance of their companion.

-are legally allowed in most public and private spaces (excluding places like kitchens of restaurants, operation rooms, and anywhere they pose a threat to others or health/safety).

-sometimes wear a vest/outfit stating “service animal” or “do not interact”

-must be on a leash or tether unless a persons disability doesn’t allow control of the animal that way.

-owners of an establishment are allowed to ask you to remove the animal IF it is not housebroken or is out of the owners control.

Questions you CAN ask:

You’re only allowed to ask this if it isn’t obvious why the animal is needed. You’re not allowed to ask the persons disability.

“Is this animal required because of a disability?”

“What work or task is this animal trained to perform?”

If you bring an ESA into a public/private establishment wearing a fake vest and claiming to be a service animal, that is ILLEGAL!

Not only does this behavior make others with ESAs look bad, it makes it hard for people with ACTUAL Service Animals because people are constantly expecting a rowdy and untrained companion animal.

*disclaimer: both are “service animals”. I have an ESA. She is a rat. She does not go in public. She lives with me at home and in the case that I’d need to fly somewhere or move, she’d be able to come with. That’s it.

hi, im will, im critically ill, and now im at my wits end. im a 22 year old disability educator living out in the south. im the co-chair for a handful of local events, involved closely with several LGBT/disability orgs, and well known-ish for being the Local Blind Person with the Pink Cane.

in late march i was sent to the ER by my clinics nursing hotline due to what sounded to them like a ruptured ovarian cyst. long story short: an ultrasound showed. it wasnt, and thus i was referred to a gastroenterologist for abdominal pain. since then ive been cycled through three meds.

one worsened symptoms,

the next did nothing,

and the third made me sicker after i waited the allotted week to see if itd work.

the gastroenterologist also ordered a CT scan, bloodwork, etc—ruling out celiac or gastritis or what-have-you—and then abruptly left her practice without warning. my followup was with a nurse practitioner at the same clinic, who responded to my problems with the 3rd medication by upping the dosage from 72mg to 290mg.

this landed me in the ER because i misguidedly believed medical professionals always know what theyre doing. in a fit of nausea i crawled into a hot bath, where my hair started falling out in fistfuls. i developed what i was worried was tardive dyskinesia, something im still risking with essentially every medication i take. the next thing internal medicine tried me on had similarly awful effects, given that it interacts with each and every one of my other meds while also being known to make even mentally stable people uncontrollably suicidal.

now my psychiatrist wants to put me on fucking levodopa, im seeing another specialist today to try to cover all my medical blanks while i triage with a teaching hospital, and in the meantime im losing massive amounts of weight because eating puts me in pain. im taking my meds crushed in applesauce and drinking a metric fuckton of clear ensure with various nutritional powders added into it. ive gone from weighing 95lbs to 70lbs. the last time i worked was in mid april, im on a payment plan for 5 different ER visits, and i have no idea what im going to do moving forward.

right now im trying to put together around $2000 to cover one month of rent, co-pays, medication, bills, gas money, and replacing things like nasal cannula or oxygen concentrator parts. its a steep goal, but two doctors appointments is $100. going to physical therapy twice a week is $100. co-pays are kicking my ass, payment plans are still expensive, and thats after hitting my first deductible three months into the year. between all of the bullshit i havent worked in nearly a month, and my savings are slim. weve been lucky enough to receive grocery help from a local org, but we are in crisis here.

i can provide proof of hospitalization, co-pay, medications, and all other expenses via DM.

paypal: https://www.paypal.me/warene

venmo: @cabwaylingo

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There is no dire emergency.

Do you accept your duty to return the cart even though you gain nothing?

The Māhele of 1848 was a legal event chat changed the traditional system of Hawaiian land tenure from communal to private. Before the Māhele (which means to divide or share), land in Hawai'i was not privately owned. Instead, every Hawaiian had communal rights to use land for living on and growing food. Land was viewed as a source of food and, like water and air, a basic necessity for life. Hence, land should be shared and available for all.

Land was also viewed as an ancestor, because in Hawaiian mythology the islands and people of Hawaii were born from the mating of Papahānaumoku, the earth mother, with Wākea, the sky father. The lands and extensive, sophisticated irrigation systems (lo'i and ‘auwai) were administered by the ali'i nui, or high chiefs, while farming was clone by maka'āinana, or commoners.

According to Hawaiian cosmogony, the ali'i nui were the elder siblings or senior lineages, and the maka'āinana, the younger siblings or junior lineages, all descended from the same divine ancestor, Hāloa. The duty of the junior lineages was to mālama ‘āina, or care for the land and for the ali'i nui, who represented the first born. It was the reciprocal duty of the elder lineage, both ali'i nui and the land, to hānai, or feed, and to ho'omalu, or protect, the junior lineages. Through their prayers and close relationship to the akua, or gods, the ali'i nui protected the people from natural disasters on the land.

When each portion of society behaved in a pono, or righteous, fashion toward the land, then there was harmony in the universe. Hence, in traditional times land was accorded the status of an ancestor and could not be privately owned. After all, how could one buy and sell one’s grandmother?

By 1848, however, Hawaiians had suffered massive depopulation from epidemics of foreign diseases. The steep and swift population decline (from estimates of up to 1 million in 1778 to 88,000 in 1848) caused a collapse of the traditional religion called ‘aikapu. In 1820, Calvinist missionaries from New England arrived in Hawai'i and taught that ola hou, or the new life, could be obtained by conversion to Christianity and Western modes of life. Calvinist missionaries were most insistent that among the “many evils” of traditional Hawaii, one of the worst was a lack of individual ownership of land, which they argued was a major cause of Hawaiian depopulation. Coupled with threats of a foreign takeover of the Hawaiian kingdom from British, French, and American warships, and a subsequent loss of land not held in fee simple ownership, the ali'i nui finally agreed to the privatization of lands in the 1848 Māhele. Under the direction of American Calvinist William Richards, a land commission was established that awarded all land titles, dividing various interests to the land.

most of these children have families who love and want them. stop perpetuating the myth that these kids all come from horrifically abusive households. it is literal propaganda.

*throws trauma in the air because that makes me valid uwu apparently*

Endogenics aren’t pushing their way into anyone’s community. They’ve always been here. The new kids on the block who find comfort in treating the DSM-5 – no, not even the DSM-5, did-research.org – like a holy book are trying to push them out.

Words like “plural” and “multiple” are about as far from medical terminology as you can get. “System” is used in psychology, but it refers to any parts of anyone’s psyche (e.g. Internal Family Systems). It’s true that for awhile, those with MPD were called multiples, but MPD was changed to DID/OSDD because “multiple personalities” came too close to implying that people alters like me are people. MPD also included those experiencing multiplicity without distress – and they existed then and now, as even garbage psychiatrists like Colin Ross recognized – so “multiple” belongs to all of us, because it was used to pathologize all of us.

Plurality has appeared across many cultures, in many forms, for thousands of years. “But spirit possession isn’t DID!” you say. And you’re right. But it can be, according to the DSM-5, because interpreted as a purely scientific phenomenon it’s perfectly analogous if it causes distress and amnesia. And many who live with what they interpret as spirits identify as plural.

Many who otherwise share their bodies with others identify as plural.

Gateway, endogenic, parogenic (tulpamancy), and quoigenic systems, with some inevitable exceptions, don’t claim to have DID.

They claim to be plural. They claim to be multiple. Multiple is and for decades has been an umbrella term for all those who share their bodies with other people. When psychiatry took two steps sideways, non-traumagenic systems remained, and they and their traumagenic allies have stood together since the dawn of the internet to create an inclusive community that will not falter.

You are exclusively entitled to a “person with DID” and “person with OSDD” community, using the words of a psychiatric establishment whose language equates me and those like me with parasites. And because the plural community is inclusive, you’re also entitled to identify as multiple and plural.

But you are not entitled to demand that a longstanding community warp itself to include you and only you. Because the plural community isn’t about having DID or OSDD; it’s about being plural.

If you don’t like the inclusive community, stay out of it. You’re not required to interact. Block us. Stay out of #endogenic, #quoigenic, etc., and Plural Hub, and create your own community. Believe me, we won’t want a part in it.