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star-jockey
Documentary ‘The Enclave’ about the Democratic Republic of Congo, filmed entirely in infrared red.
Having a traumatic childhood means you cannot talk even objectively about your basic foundational experiences without it being "venting", even if you're not actually venting. You just straight up have a huge chunk of your life you can't talk about, full stop, without it being trauma dumping.
And it not being socially acceptable to talk about your own childhood is super alienating. Sometimes people want to know why, and any answer you can give them is going to be off putting.
It's to the point I get irritated when something I said is framed as venting when I'm literally just talking about my life experiences, doing my best to keep emotion out of it.
when I was in high school, I overheard two older students talking about a friend of theirs.
One of them said something like, "it doesn't bother me that [Friend] was in residential mental health treatment, I just wish they wouldn't talk about it ALL the time".
The other replied, "Well, that was all of last year for them. So when they say 'when I was in treatment,' it's like when you say 'last year'."
I try to remember that any time someone says something that sounds Shocking to me. sometimes one person's scary special crisis is another person's last year.
Reminds me a bit of a comment on complaints about coming out:
"When straight people do it, it's called 'talking'."
Ultimately, because normativity is such a tiny box, if anything about your life is "abnormal" or "awful" or "messed up," discussing it becomes stigmatized and framed as itself abnormal/awful/messed up/etc.
It's why I say "acting classes" instead of "social skills training to 'fix' my autism."
Reminds me a bit
of a comment on complaints
about coming out:
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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Butches on a fishing trip, what a catch 🎣
You can find prints here!
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My heart. ❤ Love to this girl.
Also - this incredible story has been nominated for a Hugo (major award). PLEASE support her on Twitter if you're there.
https://twitter.com/Azure_Husky/status/1420177932518137862?t=l6nQ5U7x2q4M-dzm_6HEVA&s=19
Well fuck, this made me ugly cry on a Friday
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whittled wolves
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you have to withstand it bro. you have to endure it patiently
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a little thing i did to try out in a crash serigraph course tomorrow
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trans unity
Why would you use duct tape to hold hands ?
Wait I’m a fucking idiot