[id: screenshots of tiktok captions. the images say, “but the only reason we still love princess diana is because she did not have the time to disappoint us.”]
begging queer kids to read up on princess diana’s involvement with the community. yes, she was a rich, pretty monarch. yes, she died young.
but the reason why queer people love her is because she used her privilege during the aids crisis to advocate for sick queer men, when very few others would - much less someone of her status.
diana spent years advocating for the health and care of queer people with hiv/aids. in 1987, at the height of the epidemic, she opened the first specialist clinic dedicated to treating aids patients (the first clinic of it’s kind in the uk).
she also fought public hysteria by hugging and shaking bare hands with aids patients, at a time when aids was thought to be spread by skin to skin contact. not only that, she visited patients in the clinic regularly and even comforted them through their sickness.
and when queen elizabeth told her to try focusing on “something more pleasant”?
diana ignored her and kept fighting.
and this is only her work towards the aids crisis. she publicly called out the royal family, brought attention to numerous world issues, and was known as an advocate for empathy and kindness. she’s known and loved as the people’s princess for good reason
Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield (1957)
Julia Bowen and Sofia Vergara (2014)
Maude Apatow and Sydney Sweeney (2021)
because I haven't seen a whole heap of decent information about this... I thought I'd do a beginner's guide to dissociation
disorders that can cause dissociation include:
- DID
- OSDD
- PTSD
- depression
- OCD
- BPD
- DPDR
- anxiety
- eating disorders
- some people also experience dissociation due to chronic pain
being dissociated can feel like, but is not limited to:
- feeling disconnected from the world
- feeling "blurry", "buzzy", "foggy", or "out of it"
- not feeling any emotions
- not feeling any physical pain
- not remembering whole periods of time
- feeling like you're floating outside of your body
- your brain constantly going in and out of focus
dissociation is generally broken down into two categories:
- derealisation: the feeling that the world around you is unreal, foggy, or just out of reach
- depersonalisation: the feeling of being outside of yourself, or of not feeling real
I hope this is a helpful post, and that I've made people more aware of what dissociation actually is. if you have any follow-up questions, please feel free to ask!