i genuinely cannot put into words how much damage these tiktok "educators" are doing to the ramcoa community. there is already huge issues with survivors being unable to access therapy not even because of the uptick in people claiming it, but because of the fact that so many dissociative specialists don't fucking advertise that they're dissociative specialists anymore because of the faking tiktok shit. this is not even a speculatory thing, this is a real thing that's happening.
what the fuck happens when they start seeing organized abuse, which is already highly HIGHLY fucking stigmatized and ritual abuse which is largely disbelieved by the professional community due to the satanic panic and FMSF situations, as trends on social fucking media? what happens when our resources GENUINELY get taken away from us? what happens then?
i am begging you guys to use critical thinking skills. if people don't cite jack shit for sources when asked, or if they're claiming they're making some beneficial source like the stupid fucking alpha through omega of programming shit legion made and says "i used sources" at the end but never fucking lists them, don't listen to them! literally even if their source is "i extrapolated this information from the resources i have read like (examples provided) and i was able to draw a conclusion from them because this is a common trend among them" that is SO much better than the bullshit these fuckers are pulling.
do you know how tiring it is to answer the same five questions over and over and over again? do you know how tiring it is to rehash the exact same point you've been making for the last two months because some fuckwad on tiktok says "no that's not true :)" and then people are asking you about it again and it's just running in fucking circles?
we are not a trend. we are real people.
a friend sent me this meme and I just had to redraw it okay please put the knife down just listen it fits him okay just liSTEN-
Stimming isn't enough I need to be my special intrest
I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.
Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".
Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"
I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"
Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"
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Is there something you planned to do before you got trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?
Are you yelling at yourself to get up and do the thing, but you can’t, because you’re trapped in the endless tumblr scroll?
Consider this your save point.
Put tumblr down, stand up, stretch, and go do the thing you planned to do. Future you will be incredibly grateful.
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Sometimes terms mean certain things and belong to certain groups of people and are not meant to apply to people outside that group. And that is on purpose and valid. You can make your own terms to describe your own experiences, you don't get to take terms from other people, especially people more vulnerable/less privileged than you. If multiple people tell you that the term is not for you, respect that.
When terms get used for many different situations they get diluted and trivialized. Remember "trigger"? It was a specific medical term and is now used to mean "something that pissed or upset someone". Brain fog is now turning into abled people just being a little sleepy or out of it, not literally a clinical term for brains not functioning correctly due to various illnesses. I tell someone I have brain fog and they say lol me too XD no you fucking don't. "Spirit animal" was taken from indigenous peoples so white people could make funny haha relatable t-shirts. Two spirit almost got taken by queer white people as well (although I think most people have backed off on that hopefully).
Not everything needs to apply to as many people as possible. You don't need to and can't relate to everyone. We can still support each other while respecting differences.
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