darkforestdreams

A wannabe creator

Age: 26 years -- Pronouns: She/Her/They/Them -- Orientation: Asexual -- high functioning autistic -- dealing with anxiety and some PTSD -- but I'm still friendly! -- Loves writing, voice acting, music, and more -- My old account: https://www.tumblr.com/goldleafgardenia -- My PKMN IRL account: https://www.tumblr.com/illusions-of-the-forest

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About Me

Hello~! You can call me Rose, or Forest if you'd prefer. I'm a 25 year old with high-functioning autism, a love for creativity and escapism, and, uh... a lot happening in my life right now that I need to learn to cope with.

I am struggling with chronic anxiety, particularly social anxiety, but please don't be afraid to talk to me! I want to get better at social stuff, and the best way to do that is exposure therapy~!

You can find my alternate account here: https://www.tumblr.com/illusions-of-the-forest

I welcome interactions and questions, but it is STRICTLY SAFE FOR WORK. Inappropriate questions such as overly personal (like where I live, for example), anything involving NTSW content (especially if children, real or fictional, are involved), harassment towards anybody and discrimination of any form are NOT welcome. If you have any questions about this rule then feel free to ask, but please be respectful of the subject. Thank you!

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darkforestdreams

2 years ago

Reblog if your blog is a safe space for these identities: agender, demiboy, demigirl, genderfluid, non-binary, and transgender!

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darkforestdreams

2 years ago

Twitter thread by Anosognosiogenesis (@pookleblinky) 2 hrs ago.

1) Think about a childhood bully, punching you when the teacher isn't looking. You shout, maybe push them away, teacher reprimands you for your uncivilized angry outburst.

What does that bully say, intuitively?

"he hit me first."

2) Every bully knows DARVO, instinctively. They're rewarded for it, from cradle on.

Their most natural, intuitive reaction is to deny, cast themselves as the victim. It works, stunningly.

3) They'll spend a lifetime learning how effective it is, in every situation, to cast themselves as the victimized party that did nothing wrong.

4) In the immediate aftermath, they learn that others will completely accept their lies, almost as instinctively.

Later, they learn that being known as the aggrieved victim casts a perceptual blindspot in others, who literally will not notice that they were the one doing

5) Years and decades of this reinforcement, resulting in a guy who has zero moral qualms about doing the most heinous shit you've ever heard of and going "this is nothing compared to what that guy did"

6) It's easy to medicalize this, individualize this. Diagnose the person with a cluster B disorder, make it an abnormality specific to them.

Twitter thread by Anosognosiogenesis (Cont'd)

7) The reality is that basically anyone who learned those lessons, would think and act the same way.

Those who grew up wealthy, simply had many more abundant opportunities to learn them than others.

8) It's less an individual being "sociopathic" and more that their society was eager to encourage and reward them for mastering DARVO.

9) The vast, vast majority of the absolute shittiest people you've ever heard of, had no psychiatric issues at all.

They simply spent well over 10,000 hours learning how absolutely effective DARVO is in a society that already hates the people they victimize.

10) Medicalizing it, treating it as a problem of that individual, allows you to not ask why they were rewarded every time they used it, in every situation, by damn near everyone.

11) Less "why would he lie about this?" and more "why the fuck hasn't even one person told him to knock it the fuck off and shut the fuck up"

Twitter thread by Anosognosiogenesis (Cont'd)

12) Being outright viciously hostile to people trying to use DARVO, no matter their age, would do more to stem the neverending fountain of assholes and utter dipshits than nearly anything else.

13) Your well-timed "shuttheFUCKup" when someone tries to pull that shit, may be the first time in that person's miserable life that they've ever experienced it failing to work.

14) Tell a bully to shut the fuck up, and make him fear trying to pull that shit again, does more than endlessly trying to throw the DSM at him to make it his problem and not a problem with the society that formed him.

15) Basically elon needs to shut his ass the entire fuck up.

DARVO: Deny, Attack, Reverse Victim and Offender.

An abuser denies the abuse ever took place, attacks the person that was abused (often the victim) for attempting to hold the abuser accountable for their actions, and claims that they are actually the victim in the situation, thus reversing what may be a reality of victim and offender. It often involves not just "playing the victim" but also victim blaming.

TL;Dr: Stop pathologizing neurodivergent people and individualizing abuse, and start treating abusers and bullies as a social failing that are products of privilege.

Unless you want to insist that every bitchass who's ever plagued marginalized people has NPD.

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darkforestdreams

2 years ago

please make a poll on how maby people who follow this account are autistic. i have a theory

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darkforestdreams

2 years ago

you could write several paragraphs about what the best pokemon generation is and i wouldn’t care because unova lets me do this

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darkforestdreams

2 years ago

HAPPY 10 YEARS OF THE MOST TRANSGENDER POKEMON

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