Her and our problem with it is that it pathologises understandable behaviour and labels it, splitting it into discrete classifications whereas psychology (and differences in it) is more complex than that and is often interlocking/intersectional or whatever word is best.

It also stops people from getting treatment such as those diagnosed with BPD as they are then “too difficult to work with”, therapist says this should be thought of as a manifestation of trauma instead, in fact a lot of things probably should be ioo.

It also can make people into diagnoses instead of individuals and that’s very problematic.

We hope you can understand what we mean by this.

We have a problem with the idea of ‘mental illness’ or ‘neurodivergence’ in the first place as it seeks to establish a baseline by which all must adhere to or else there is something ‘wrong’ with you and it must be fixed and usually in the most ineffective ways possible due to procedures, funding, ableism and saneism. Plus differences do not inherently mean ‘broken’ and that should be acknowledged more.

Sure, if people want help they absolutely should be, but most of what the field of psychology and psychiatry do is not help, they are extremely gatekeepery, financially driven and don’t understand nearly enough to actually help, if they even care at all to do so.

We think a better system could be created, indeed there are some anarchist therapists out there and those that want to look at things deeper in the scientific fields. However, in our current system there is still a deeply problematic ingrained lack of desire to go far enough to actually help, because the individual is focused on only when a lot of issues are actually due to the way society/the world works, which many in the field do not like to acknowledge or do anything about.

Edit: Plus labelling people a specific thing can actually trap them in boxes and make them see all their problems through that lens only which isn’t helpful or good, especially as it can sometimes exacerbate their issues.

The DSM is shit and should be done away with 😁.

Even our therapist told us this.

Yes.

Ah, right sorry we misread.

Nothing wrong with sex workers 🙂

Edit: Sorry we misread.

It’s Star Butterfly!

Personally we prefer written instructions as both of the above do not go in often and we like to do it on our own time.

Please be more clear with that in the future, as your exclusion of “to me” came across as saying it was, or should have been, obvious to everyone or everymany. Thanks!

Please don’t assume everyone or everymany can understand all jokes in text, thanks.

There’s a reason tone tags exist after all, as an accessibility tool for just this kind of situation.

Okay.

Hope you are doing well.

No, why would anybody do or think such a thing? It’s not based on the bullshit measurement system of ‘attractiveness’ based on bullshit beauty standards.

It’s based on caring about other people. Though yes, we should have explained that better, we guess.

Then she should be shown care, love and understanding 🙂.

We do not support streaming services as we consider paying their ever increasing fees for things we do not own ludicrous.

We do not enjoy going to the cinema as it is, as you said, expensive but also a worse experience. The movie cannot be paused, we are around people we do not know (often making lots of noise) and we can’t even consume most of the food or drink, plus covid is still a thing as much as people want to act like it isn’t.

If we ever have the money and it’s avaliable we might get bluerays but that’s all we could be persuaded to do.

We hope one day the TV and Film industries stop being greedy and learn to make the files purchasable without DRM.

If there was a place we could buy the files DRM free we totally would. Until then we very rarely buy such things as it’s such a hassle to rip things ourselves (if DVD or Blueray is even an option, sadly all too often they aren’t).

It is our one gripe with the TV and Film Industries. Music did it, Games did it, yet Film and TV has not done so yet, if they ever do we will totally do as you suggest, until then a pirate’s life for us (for tv and film only).

Glad we could help 🙂

No, we’re pretty ace and would CW through spoilers sex, we think.

Yeah, it is a ridiculous judgement, which is why we aren’t fans of the courts or law, they often make ridiculous decisions and aren’t about morals or ethics but authority and money.

They legally banned a company from using certain colour combinations recently, so in a way they stopped them using color.

Even if polyamorous marriage was legal we still would not get married. Marriage is just a contract, it does not ‘prove’ love and ioo takes love out of the relationship.

It currently only stands to create a hierarchy and that is something we cannot abide in our relationships: hierarchy.

Pulling a Nintendo we see.

Wake us up when it’s out on pirate sites.