Ms. ArmoredThirteen

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  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldWinning
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    5 days ago

    Oh man a couple months ago I had to back off a topic because my therapist was obviously about to cry and just barely holding it together… I’m trans and was talking about my worries with how the US is going. They have trans kids and I think my concerns were hitting close to home for them. It was a difficult session for everyone x.x







  • I have some kind of unspecified dissociative disorder and it’s weird. The other day I was having a stress response to some stuff. Woke up, remember some stuff about the morning, then remember coming back into existence that evening. The entire house was cleaned including garage and driveway. I had been talking with people too. I think I remember parts of it but I don’t actually know if they’re post-dissociation manufactured memories as my brain tried to fill in the gap. Malls are the worst for me they’re a sensory nightmare and I’ll usually start dissociating within a few minutes.

    I’ve gotten so used to it that I’ve built up a “what am I doing?” skill set. Sometimes I’m just suddenly somewhere else in the house or in a different part of town shopping or some shit. I have to piece together what’s going on like in Memento. Am I me during those times I can’t remember? DID has been ruled out but if I can’t remember things than what exactly is running the body while I’m away? People who interact with me say I respond to stuff slowly, in a confused or dreamlike way, and need things repeated to me multiple times. Sometimes they can pull me out of it then they have to explain where we are and what we’re doing.

    Imagine watching a movie and periodically hitting the next scene button. Sometimes you skip a little bit, sometimes a lot, and you need to piece together what was missed based on limited info.








  • Mass organizing in the US is logistically difficult, and all our media is owned by people who want to see the protests fail so the coverage isn’t amazing. But we have millions of people protesting right now and the numbers have been growing fast. Protesters have been under threat of arrest and possible death for ages, and they’re opening it up to “get black bagged and sent to tortureville forever”. We have so much working against us even getting resistance off the ground and yeah we aren’t amazing at it, there’s a good chance we can’t pull it off, but we’re trying