probably my favorite thing about witchcraft is how diy it is. like, I used to be catholic and it was like “this has power because it was anointed by a priest” and witchcraft is like “fuck that. anoint it yourself. you have all the power of the universe in your little hands” and I love it.
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- Me when I see a goth girl: I love her, she's amazing, I hope she'll notice me and love me to.
That’s literally why I started; you ultimately hold the power, not an authority figure.
- the simplistic “chemical imbalance” theory of mental illness has been debunked for years. psychiatrists readily admit this
- mental illness cannot be diagnosed based on brain structure alone. there is a great deal of overlap between clinical and non-clinical populations in this respect
- mental illness is physically embodied in the brain. so are personality, memory, learning, and emotion
- there is a natural degree of physical variation between brains. these differences fall on a spectrum. the point on this spectrum at which point a brain becomes “diseased” or more charitably “divergent” is arbitrary and informed by social concepts of health and sanity, which vary across cultures and time periods
- please do not insist that my self and my neurodivergencies can be disentangled
- please do not insist that my brain is physically defective
- thank