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macassarebony asked:

You ever think about how bleak it is that the American understanding of addiction treatment is still based almost solely on the ideology of AA and NA? I think it's by far one of the cultiest, most retrograde things still viewed as totally normal in the US.

transmutationisms answered:

yes it makes me so insane. even doctors in the us who don't reroute patients directly into 12-step meetings are still operating off the same basic ideas (substance use is an uncontrollable external disease entity that takes over yr brain, also you're intemperate and morally compromised, also the only solution is to seek ~~god~~ a higher external intervention) like it has such a total capture of the entire us medical imagination. the number of people who don't even know that things like medication treatment exist, let alone having any familiarity with any harm reduction or recovery frameworks besides total abstinence, is frankly disturbing. and then it just becomes this self-sustaining logic where you punish people for using and then they use more and the psychiatric-carceral explanation is that that's proof of how innately fucked up they were all along and how they need to be kept away from substances. even the few social workers or whatever who criticise 12-stepping usually max out at "well it works for Full Blown Addicts but regular people can probably be less strict" like the existence of these groups completely obviates the need for any actual challenge to ruling treatment ontologies. and this is before you even get into the expansion of 12-stepping into other behaviours lmaooo like in undergrad in the dining hall i used to get visually assaulted with posters for 'overeaters anonymous' 12-step meetings every time i wanted coffee, there are meetings for sex addicts, 'crime addicts' (i'm not kidding), gambling, workaholism, going into debt... and the original model doesn't even work for the one thing it was intended to work for! because it's the equivalent of going to confession for protestants. and then we just export that model onto literally any behaviour designated as socially insalubrious anyway 👍 i mean really, why do things that help people. who cares about that shit i think we should keep berating them into xianity instead

#addiction #cfc #mic #dj

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girlcalledwhatsername asked:

So I've only ever seen this used in my psych textbook from school (and I use it in my head for personal use but that barely counts) but have you come across "double depression" being used often to talk about the constant irritability that comes with being depressed? The term struck me as kinda awkward always, but I wonder if it has any merit or has since found a replacement

transmutationisms answered:

oh funny, i always heard that term as referring to when you have 'chronic depression' (dysthymia but i think dsm5 may have phased that term out) as well as episodes of acute major depression. i mean it's silly either way, it's basically just doctorspeak for wow this person is still kinda blue even when they're capable of getting out of bed and going to work lol. and from a billing perspective i do raise eyebrows at terms like this because they tend to be useful for justifying more, or more aggressive, pharmacological or even surgical interventions ('this isn't normal depression, it's double depression, which is more severe and calls for xyz thing we normally wouldn't say is worth the risk'). but of course the usage also does get embraced by some patients and patient advocates, who think of expanding psychiatric language in the direction of less severe symptoms not as medicalisation or carceral capture, but as offering them descriptive language for a disabling experience.

#cfc #nd #double depression #dj

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charlottan

some of my favorite mutuals post entirely about things that i do not understand or care about and our dms are barren like a desert. and yet the warmth of that big hot sun remains between us

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sweetlikeacherry

having one good friend can change the whole trajectory of your life for the better. if you haven’t found your people yet, may they find you soon

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l-ultimo-squalo

The Secret of NIMH (1982) dir. Don Bluth

#watch list #the secret of nimh

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theunimpairedcondition

I Imagine the Butches’ Stripper Bar

At my butches’ stripper bar you can watch butches fold laundry, iron. Objectify them while they slowly refinish a rolltop desk, take off a trailer hitch. They file taxes, wear waders, bake you a layer cake. I’ll lay her cake, my imagined patrons mutter. I think of who I eroticize, how: they’re always getting stuff done. At real stripper bars women just dance—so many things they could be checking off their lists. I guess men don’t want to see women work? They get that at home? In my Champagne Room the butches plant bulbs, build bookshelves, clean basements, write checks to the ACLU, retrain your dog. Fantastic grow the flannel plaids; they lean and squint, lick pencils, adjust a miter box. They make box lunches, chicken stock. The butches make your day.

-Jill McDonough

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You know, even apart from the intricate worldbuilding about the talking rodents and what their deal is, the part of The Secret of NIMH that's like "working single mom trying to obtain medical treatment for her sick child discovers that her late husband was basically a high-level Dungeons & Dragons character and never told her about any of it, and she keeps tripping over elements of his unreasonably complicated backstory whose context and significance are never fully explained to the audience because the particulars aren't relevant to her journey" is a really fun premise all on its own.

#watch list #the secret of nimh

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draconisxmalfoy

Dear, sweet, Littlefoot, do you remember the way to the Great Valley? I guess so. But why do I have to know if you’re going to be with me? I’ll be with you. Even if you can’t see me. What do you mean I can’t see you? I can always see you.

The Land Before Time(1988) dir. Don Bluth

floating-in-the-blue

#Children’s media used to be about making you feel the entire depth and breadth of the human emotional spectrum#All while your 7 y/o brain struggled to make sense of if all. But it was like an emotional vaccine#Comprehending loss at that age didn’t make it any easier to bear with age. But atleast it was familiar (conserving these tags by @jonairadreaming because yes)

Damn. Old Rooter is one of those characters who come out of nowhere. Gives great advice and encouragement. Then they’re gone. They remain a mystery. Random supporting characters can have a great impact on a story. Another Don Bluth character full of mystery and advice but far more menacing to the protagonist. The Great Owl from the Secret of NIMH.

#the land before time #watch list

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me impatiently to the little french cat boiling me in a stew: chat am I cooked

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i fear the battle is lost at this point but i still flinch every time i see "gay panic" used as a cute positive phrase. Like let's go on say wikipedia.org for a second and try typing that one in folks

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midori1974hijau

Source: pinterest.com

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bellalunadreams

There are three ways to know if you’re watching a Don Bluth movie.

1. The soft cozy feel and colors.

2. You will not see one scene in the movie where the character don’t stop moving. Not one shot in the movie will have the characters standing still and just talking, they will sway or move their hands and/or head. It’s honestly impressive, it feels so natural but over exaggerated at the same time lol

3. The way the mouths move. Over exaggerated, wider than humanly possible, yet exactly how the word sound

#watch list #the secret of nimh

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Hercules (1997) dir. John Musker & Ron Clements

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bruh i think i just found out im autistic late in life

ok ngl this has been hard

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when i was a kid i got a 90% on my kindergarten "what are your favorite things?" test because for the question "what is your favorite animal?" i wrote down "puma" and it got marked wrong because my teacher said a puma isnt even an animal its a kind of shoe

when i was in third grade we were studying fractions on the floor and i went up to solve a fraction at the board and after i solved it my teacher was like "HOW COULD YOU EVER DO THAT. GO SIT AT YOUR DESK." and i was like. what did i do. i didnt do anything. and she was like "YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID." so i had to go sit at my desk with my head down for an hour straight because she made me stay in for recess too. i asked her what she thought i did the next day and she was like what? i dont remember making you do that

in my senior year government class my history teacher was asking on what basis is the united states government legally allowed to discriminate. and i raised my hand and said the united states government discriminates in law based on sex. and my teacher laughed and he said "isnt that such a classic teenage boy thing. always thinking about sex." and then he was like "the united states government discriminates based on gender." the textbook we were reading from used the term sex.

this thread has been "times teachers thought they were smarter than me but they were stupid and pissed me off" thank you

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As someone in and around their 30’s it has been INSANE to see feminism in popular media descend through

Women can wear pants and play sports and that’s equality. Women don’t just belong inside the house. This woman has a career
This woman can be a mechanic just like a man could. She’s probably still a lesbian, though, which is basically the closest to a man a woman can *be*, and explains everything. But she’s still a person!
If a woman superhero CHOOSES to wear stilettos to fight crime, that’s girl power! This comic character written and designed by men wears a bikini and has a waist size of 12 inches because it makes her FEEL POWERFUL! Girls don’t HAVE to dress boyish to be strong! She can make you a sandwich AND be a feminist! Girl power!
What, are you saying women HAVE to do boy things to be taken seriously? Who are you to tell a woman what to do? Maybe some women NEED to get their hair and nails done twice a month to feel powerful! Maybe a lot of women WANT to be stay-at-home moms!
What I don’t think you understand is that women have an inherent feminine spirituality which guides them towards maternal and nurturing paths. Women need to honour their divine female aura to keep their. Their fuckin. Their chakras together or some shit. You should put quartz up your hooha and huff wheatgrass. Leaving manual labour and science and technology to men is natural and good for you spiritually
Uh she can’t do that, that’s a blue job, she’s a pink job girly. Food? Yeah, she’s having #girl dinner, which is a handful of almonds. Time for our 15 step skincare routine, which is empowering. Hashtag #girlboss. Ew no, touching dirt? She’s just a girl. You can’t expect a girl to do that. Haha #girl logic

Like obviously demonizing and belittling stereotypically feminine interests and occupations isn’t the answer and that’s not what I MEAN, I just see the argument going from

Why would you want to wear pants? Boy stuff is icky anyways
Women have the same potential as men
Women can do anything men can!
Women shouldn’t be TOO MUCH like men, though.
In fact, maybe women choosing to stick to historically female roles is BETTER.
Actually, maybe women NEED to stick to feminine things.
Woman actually have completely different needs and impulses than men.
Is staying at home and raising babies the REAL empowerment?
Women need to make sandwiches to survive actually
Women are weak and incapable of complex thought and that’s *better* than being a man
Why would you want to wear pants? Boy stuff is icky anyways

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I copy pasted parts of this but I do hand letter everything, because while I'm trying to work easier as I'm chronically ill, I am still chronically stupid

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