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"If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it"

This is such a good article. CW discussion of ableism
humanparts.medium.com/amp/p/3a

Is dragon style doing things in the style of a dragon or being a stylish dragon or both

re: uspol 

@Cilich @AarkTheDragon@yiff.life And that's assuming he survives the jaundice and stress of his lifestyle for another 4 years.

Gods are a lot less Terrifying and awe inspiring when you're a plural shaman.

I was not prepared for Thunderbird to be a wild turkey, for example, but it Tracks.

And it's really easy to know when you're hallucinating and when something Actually supernatural happens when you know all the voices in your head, and know when someone Else is hanging around.

Getting possessed by a Unicorn is a different bag of chips entirely. Especially when the Body is driving a 1 ton dump truck.

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Being plural means you don't just have the One gender. Or Name. Or Pronouns.

And parts of you can come back from the Dead and wake up fifteen years down the line and need therapy.

The positive side is that after wrangling this kinda disorder, Demonic Possession seems almost underwhelming.

Il-Chamadoth the Defiler could show up tomorrow in here and all that'd happen is he'd get tranq'd, Tagged, and set up with a therapy schedule.

@clipclopboom@snouts.online @chr And I'm the charming anthro dragon bard.

@Lumb I think you're describing @clipclopboom@snouts.online

re: second puberty issue for trans girls 

@mxsiege@octodon.social Sure!

My dysphoria is Physical and emotional. I'm off meds right now, and going through a major testosterone spike.

So I get irritable, I get headaches, I'm aggressive, uncomfortable, and suffer from GI tract problems and an enlarged prostate that creates it's own host of issues.

My body has always been somewhat androgynous, I never went bald like my younger brothers, and most of my Gender Role Dysphoria was trauma-induced from my upbringing.

And I'm a Plural system, and one of my headmates absolutely can Not stand man-smell. So that has an aspect of physical dysphoria to it.

Really, HRT gives me a lot of gender Euphoria: My body reacts to even low-dose meds dramatically, my skin softens, I'm not irritated and intense all the time, and I smell the way I feel like I Should smell.

The rest of it is almost a Moot Point, if I wanna "Be a Girl" I can just put Kerithe out front and she just Radiates 'Woman' so hard that Passing isn't an issue.

Hence the 'Hermaphrodite' label. I can do Both, do them well, and some other stuff besides. I can feel totally Fine pulling my car over after hitting a nasty pothole, stalk out and plop down on the pavement and have a full conversation with the mechanic guy who pulls up behind me because he saw the smoke.

And the fact I'm wearing a skirt and leggings is Less important than "Yep, that's a Ford, Fix em with a hammer"

And then I go fix the thing on the side of the road, still in girlclothes. Not optimal, and I tore one of my nice skirts, but the Car got home in one piece.

So when it comes to Dysphoria? I had a Lot More dysphoria trying to get other Guys to treat me like a Man, than just Being non-binary, and wearing what I like to wear. The Hormonal profile is more of a Medical Problem at this point.

re: second puberty issue for trans girls 

@mxsiege@octodon.social My bits started working 'Properly' for the first time ever on HRT.
Androgen insensitivity and/or androgen intolerance is a real thing, and getting on HRT can have all sorts of weird side effects if you're Intersex.

And the Dysphoria is different too. I love my Body, I just wish it loved me back.

When a boomer complains about "Ok Boomer" even though no one said it to them personally, and it makes everyone else wish they would just shut up, that's called an Ok Boomerang. They through it out there but it just came back to hit them.

@itspomf@beach.city Phone anxiety and most guys respond to anxiety by raising their voice.

What about: A 'fork' of steampunk but with mechanical being the only form of energy

Everything is gears and pulleys, batteries are just compressed springs or tensioned rubber, the power grid is a series of pulleys and power outlets are exposed spinning gears

@Waces That's basically Line-Shaft factories of the mid 1800s to the early 1930s before small induction motors took over for a Biiiiig water wheel or steam engine running Everything.

Big leather belts connecting individual tools and machines to a single big lineshaft. The mill buildings here still have Big holes in the oak floors for running machines off the next floor up's Line-Shaft

re: mh, unreality 

@lemememeringue Hah! They're Alters who belong to a friend of mine.

And at this point they're basically Clients. It's almost constant Unicorn Rehab Therapy.

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