I'm... Fairly Confident You Don't Need To Be Familiar With The Source Material To Understand. I've Not

I don't appreciate this slander, Wade.

Ah, I see! I suppose that makes sense, if nothing that normally happens with spine growth would mean it has to be replaced. It's a bit variable, but losing out on a good half of one's teenage height gains that way would be a sensible expectation.

This statement makes sense to me. Quite frankly, my issue with the posts in question, except for one case where your blaming pro-endos for stuff that I know the pro-endo community helped the previous primary fronter unlearn after she learnt it from certain anti-endos claiming relevant trauma, is that they cap off with, or otherwise include, typically in essence, “QED endos aren’t real”.

Also, thanks for the reminder that now that we’re properly active we probably should at least have non-anon asks on? Yeah. Not that the others are active much, but...

The only thing here I’m willing to contend is the “not a comparable experience”. Irregardless of deeper dissimilarities, the experiences are similar enough that people who would wind up deciding their Endogenic are decently likely to run into Traumagenic communities and vise-versa, and there’s no real way to stop that beyond having a shared community on the surface level built to filter people to the relevant community via private links - which is the cited reason that when the non-disordered systems community tried to split off its terms wound up in the disordered systems community. (Its also the cited reason that both sometimes wander into tulpamancy spaces, though I’m told that tends to resolve a bit quicker - and tulpamancers get a lot less upset about terminology theft!)

Bluh, IDK how to really shorten that, and its not got real evidence in there, more so stating my opinion.

Anyhow, I had an actual next statement before I thought of that statement and shall now go onto it. While in retrospect I can see how it would be a problem, I had expected DMs. This is because we’ve seen other traumagenic systems attacked by anti-endos on the basis that they can’t be real, and I have what I’m pretty sure is a reasonable level of fear over that, since the system I’m in is *weird*.

@niavirrivain because of the stalking and harassment I'm currently going through, I'm not comfortable responding to the comments and giving out my main. I was going to send you an ask, but you have those turned off, so a post it is.

I am, for all intents and purposes, endo neutral at this point. I don't care what endos are doing in their corner of the internet. My blog and posts at this point specifically discuss sources and myths in regards to the DSM and DID/OSDD. I don't debate the existence of endos anymore, but I do point out that proof of their existence isn't going to come from the DSM, and it's not a comparable experience to DID/OSDD.

Very often this involves an anti endo stance within posts and syscourse. My stance, though, doesn't negate the sources or truth. In other words, just because someone doesn't like my stance, doesn't mean the post about the cultural exclusion (for example) is wrong. Worded from an anti endo standpoint? Yes, but the main point that the exclusion isn't meant for endogenic systems still stands.

Anyone, regardless of stance or origin, is welcome to send me asks about clarifying, explaining, or debunking sources. I encourage people to send me new sources to look at. It's up to you to take that information and make your own informed decision, and it doesn't matter who or what you are, I will help you understand things if you ask.

It kind of bugs me that Tumblr has seized upon “taking everything literally” as the Defining Neurodivergent Experience™ – not only because it’s actually pretty uncommon, but also because it’s erasing an enormous variety of other frequent communication style issues, including but not limited to:

Having your brain stubbornly seize upon the first interpretation that happens to pop into your head as the Only Possible Interpretation, regardless of whether it’s literal or figurative  

Easily identifying several possible interpretations of a statement, but having absolutely no ability to parse for context and identify which of those interpretations is most plausible  

Being confronted with a statement that has Implications, then getting thrown for a loop when it turns out that the speaker wasn’t considering any of that and really did just mean it literally  

Perfectly understanding a statement’s intended meaning, but getting annoyed with the speaker anyway because they didn’t phrase it Correctly, seriously, are you the only person here who gives a shit about the goddamn Rules?

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— Joe Biden’s Last Campaign

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Speaking of mountains, I know most people live around sea level, but still, I'm curious

Justice for REcunt Shirt

"Oh hell yeah finally some good information about Pythagoras and Goetia, this is really interes- what the fuck is snake-blasting."

... Instinctively, absolute terror makes the most sense to me, yet when I try to think this through logically, I can think of normal reasons for the first two, but not for absolute terror. This confuses me.

'there is no clock here', spoken in a variety of tones and affects; relief, calm, absolute terror